God's Gun

God's Gun

Italian theatrical release poster
Directed by Frank Kramer
Produced by
Screenplay by
  • John Fonseca
  • Frank Kramer
Starring
Music by Sante Maria Romitelli
Cinematography Sandro Mancori
Edited by Manlio Camastro
Production
company
Distributed by
Release date
  • March 1977 (1977-03) (USA)
Running time
 94 minutes
Country
  • Italy
  • Israel
Language
  • English

God's Gun (also known as Diamante Lobo) is a 1976 Italian–Israeli Spaghetti Western filmed in Israel directed by Gianfranco Parolini (credited as Frank Kramer) and starring Lee Van Cleef. Jack Palance plays the head of a malicious group of bandits and Van Cleef plays a double-role of brothers: a priest and a reformed gunfighter determined to stop them.

Leif Garrett also plays the main character in the film, as a fatherless kid who brings the reformed gunfighter to town.

Plot

One day Sam Clayton (Jack Palance) and his gang arrive in the small town of Juno City where Father John (Lee van Cleef) is the priest of the town church. After having a little bit of fun that involves raping a woman and knifing a man in the back, the gang leaves town, only to be caught by the fearless but unarmed Father John. That night the murderer is broken out of gaol. Vowing revenge, the gang guns him down on the steps of his church and then set about taking control of the town while waiting for the stagecoach. However, little Johnny O'Hara (Leif Garrett) manages to escape with a couple of their horses and rides off to Mexico in the hope of finding the priest's gunfighter brother (also played by Lee van Cleef). They soon meet and set off back across the border to clean up the town. Meanwhile Clayton discovers that he is Johnny's father. Also, some fifteen years prior during the Civil War, Jenny O'Hara (Sybil Danning) had been one of Clayton's victims, adding to the mystique of the situation — as well as to the question of little Johnny's paternity — and now, enhancing the plot, Clayton takes to the idea of being a father.

Cast

Production

Richard Boone walked off the film before it was completed leaving his role to be dubbed by another actor. In an interview with Cleveland Amory in Israel in May 1976 Boone told Amory, "I'm starring in the worst picture ever made. The producer is an Israeli and the director is Italian, and they don't speak. Fortunately it doesn't matter, because the director is deaf in both ears."[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ p.29 Rothel, David Richard Boone: A Knight without Armor in a Savage Land Empire Publishing, 2000
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