Thursday,
July 26 – Saturday, July 28
Beyond
Leone – Lost Spaghetti Western Classics
The
dog days of summer get a bit hotter when International House
takes you out to the sun-baked deserts of some of the most intense
Italian Westerns ever made. These hard to find classics feature
some of most memorable performances by Lee Van Cleef, Klaus
Kinski, and more. And each night’s screening is presented as
a double feature. International House thanks Harry Guerro for
curating this series.
Thursday,
July 26 at 7pm
Day
of Anger
dir.
Tonino Valerii, Italy/West Germany, 1967, 16mm, 95 mins, color
Quentin
Tarantino's Personal Print
 Lee
Van Cleef has been dirty, "ugly" and downright mean.
Now watch him get violent. Tonino Valerii, assistant director
to Sergio Leone on Fistful of Dollars and
For a Few Dollars More, went on to helm some of the
Italian western genres best entries, such as: Price of Power,
an allegory of the JFK assassination; My
Name is Nobody, a loving tribute to western myth (produced
by Leone); and this film,
Day of Anger, starring top genre stars Lee Van Cleef
("the Bad" in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly)and
Guiliano Gemma (Pistol for Ringo). In this film Van
Cleef takes on the role of an experienced gunfighter who adopts
an outcast orphan (Gemma) and teaches him the art of gunplay.
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The Ruthless Four
dir.
Giorgio Capitani, Italy/West Germany, 1968, 16mm, 96 mins, color
Here's
an exciting, little-seen western in the tradition of Treasure
of the Sierra Madre , with a terrific cast including Van
Heflin (3:10 to Yuma) and Spaghetti stalwarts George
Hilton, Gilbert Roland and the incomparable Klaus Kinski.
Co-written
by top Italian action filmmaker Fernando Di Leo (The Italian
Connection), The Ruthless Four is the story of
a man who strikes gold and is forced to rely on a fractious
group of men, including his adopted son, to aid him in mining
the fortune.
Friday,
July 27 at 7pm
If
You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
dir.
Gianfranco Parolini, Italy/France/West Germany, 1968, 35mm,
95 mins, color
Sartana,
the "Angel of Death", became a popular character of
the Italian Western through many sequels and unauthorized cash-ins.
In this rarely-screened presentation of the original film by
Gianfranco Parolini (Sabata), Gianni Garko stars as
the mysterious titular gunfighter who involves himself in the
hunt for various bad men more as an otherworldly avenger than
a bounty hunter with earthly motivations. Familiar genre villains
such as William Berger, Klaus Kinski and Fernando Sancho co-star.
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Django Challenges Sartana
dir.
Pasquale Squittieri, Italy, 1970, 35mm, 90 mins, color
Two
of the most famous Spaghetti characters team up in this ultra-rare
screening of an obscure film by esteemed Italian director Pasquale
Squitteri. Somewhat reminiscent of Sergio Leone's For a
Few Dollars More, Django and Sartana, initially at odds
with one another, team up to take down a gang of bandits.
Saturday,
July 28 at 7pm
Five
Man Army
dir.
Don Taylor & Italo Zingarelli, Italy, 1969, 16mm, 105 mins,
color
Italian
horror specialist Dario Argento co-wrote this action-filled
western after contributing to the script for Leone's Once
Upon a Time in the West. An international cast including
Peter Graves, Tetsuro Tamba and Bud Spencer star in this Magnificent
Seven inspired story of a band of mercenaries hired to
rescue a revolutionary and steal $500,000 in gold. Musical score
by the great Ennio Morricone.
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They Call
Me Hallelujah
dir.
Anthony Ascott, Italy, 1971, 35 mm, 94 mins, color
Also
known as Heads You Die, Tails I Kill You, this film
by prolific genre director Anthony Ascott, stars George Hilton
as a gunfighter recruited to confiscate a shipment of jewels
to aid
a
Mexican revolutionary in purchasing a machine gun.
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