| Il Grande Duello | |
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| Directed by | Giancarlo Santi |
| Written by | Ernesto Gastaldi |
| Starring | Lee Van Cleef as Sheriff Clayton |
| Music by | Luis Bacalov |
| Release date(s) | 1972 |
| Running time | 98 min. |
| Country | Italy / France / W. Germany / Monaco |
| Language | English |
Storm Rider (Il Grande duello, 1972), aka The Grand Duel is an Italian/German French Monacan international co-production Spaghetti Western directed by Giancarlo Santi, who had previously worked as Sergio Leone's assistant director on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West. The film stars Lee Van Cleef as a sheriff who seeks justice for a man accused of murder.
Philipp Wermeer has been framed for the murder of a powerful figure known as The Patriarch. Wermeer escapes, but the three Saxon brothers, sons of The Patriarch, have arranged for a large bounty on Wermeer's head. Clayton is a grizzled ex-sheriff stripped of his office in Jefferson after refusing to acknowledge Wermeer's guilt. During a series of fire-fights, Clayton contrives to help Wermeer escape from attacks of bounty-hunters. Together, the two make their way to Saxon City, where they can confront the three powerful Saxon brothers, and reveal the surprising truth about who killed The Patriarch.
The film's music was composed by future Academy Award winner Luis Enríquez Bacalov. The film's title score was later used in Quentin Tarantino's film Kill Bill Vol. 1.
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