The Stranger and the Gunfighter

The Stranger and the Gunfighter
American film poster for The Stranger and the Gunfighter
Directed by	Antonio Margheriti
Produced by	Gustave M. Berne Run Run Shaw
Written by	Miguel De Echarri Barth Jules Sussman
Starring	Lee Van Cleef Lo Lieh Patty Shepard Femi Benussi
Music by	Carlo Savina
Cinematography	Alejandro Ulloa
Edited by	Giorgio Serrallonga
Distributed by	Champion Films (Italy) Shaw Brothers Studio (Hong Kong) Columbia Pictures (U.S. dubbed)
Release dates	1974 (1974)
Running time	105 min
Country	Spain/Italy/Hong Kong/United States

The Stranger and the Gunfighter is a 1974 kung fu Spaghetti Western comedy film produced by the Shaw Brothers in collaboration with an Italian company, and filmed on location in Hong Kong and Spain. It was directed by Antonio Margheriti starring Lo Lieh (at the time one of Hong Kong's most famous action stars) as Ho Chiang. For English-language release, the film was retitled The Stranger and the Gunfighter and Blood Money.^[1] ^[2]

Plot

Martial arts expert Ho Chiang journeys to America's Wild West in order to retrieve his late uncle Wang's missing fortune. Ho must free his uncle's murderer, Dakota (frequent Spaghetti Western star Lee Van Cleef), the only man who knows Wang's final resting place. Upon recovering the body, the pair discovers clues pointing to buried treasure. Notes on the dead man's body promise that the location of the treasure will be illuminated by a map, divided for security into four segments, each one tattooed on the buttocks of one of the uncle's four mistresses. Armed with photographs of the women, Ho and Dakota form an uneasy alliance and set out in search of the map tattoos and the promised riches.

Production

El kárate, el Colt y el impostor was produced at a time when the Shaw Brothers were attempting to branch into more international co-productions, often genre-bending. The same year also saw the Shaw Brothers Studio teaming with the UK's Hammer Studios to produce The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, a kung fu gothic horror film.

References

↑ "Là dove non batte il sole". spaghetti-western.net. Retrieved 2014-04-26.
↑ "Blood Money". hkfilm.net. Retrieved 2014-04-26.

External links

Films directed by Antonio Margheriti

1960s	Space Men (1960) Battle of the Worlds (1961) The Golden Arrow (1962) The Fall of Rome (1963) The Virgin of Nuremberg (1963) Castle of Blood (1964) Devil of the Desert Against the Son of Hercules (1964) Hercules, Prisoner of Evil (1964) Giants of Rome (1964) The Long Hair of Death (1964) Wild, Wild Planet (1965) War of the Planets (1966) War Between the Planets (1966) Snow Devils (1965) Lightning Bolt (1966) Bob Fleming... Mission Casablanca (1966) Dynamite Joe (1967) The Young, the Evil and the Savage (1968) Io ti amo (1968) Vengeance (1968) The Unnaturals (1969)

1970s	Mr. Superinvisible (1970) And God Said to Cain (1970) Web of the Spider (1971) House of 1,000 Pleasures (1972) Treasure Island (1972) Novelle galeotte d'amore (1972) Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye (1973) Mr Hercules vs Karate (1973) The Stranger and the Gunfighter (1974) Take a Hard Ride (1975) The Rip-Off (1975) Death Rage (1976) Killer Fish (1978)

1980s - 1990s	Cannibal Apocalypse (1980) The Last Hunter (1980) Car Crash (1981) Hunters of the Golden Cobra (1982) Tiger Joe (1982) The Ark of the Sun God (1983) Yor, the Hunter from the Future (1983) Last Blood (1983) Code Name: Wild Geese (1984) Jungle Raiders (1985) Commando Leopard (1985) Treasure Island in Outer Space (1987) The Commander (1988) Alien From the Deep (1989) Indio (1989) Indio 2: The Revolt (1991) Genghis Khan: The Story of a Lifetime (1993) Virtual Weapon (1997)

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, October 30, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.