Grande duello, Il

Category: 29
All Genres: Western
Release Year: 1972
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, Monaco
Runtime: 98
Rating: (0)
Languages: Italian
Director: Giancarlo Santi
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

A one man Judge, Jury and Executioner who turns the Wild West into a Blood Bath!

Writing by: Ernesto Gastaldi - writer

Produced by: Alain Poiré - producer
Yves Robert - producer

Cast: Lee Van Cleef - Sheriff Clayton
Horst Frank - David Saxon / Patriarch
Alberto Dentice - Philipp Wermeer (as Peter O'Brien)
Marc Mazza - Eli Saxon
Jess Hahn - Bighorse the Stage Driver
Antonio Casale - Hole the Bounty Hunter (as Anthony Vernon)
Klaus Grünberg - Adam Saxon
Dominique Darel - Elisabeth, Adam's Bride to Be
Alessandra Cardini - Anita, One of Madame Oro's Girls (as Sandra Cardini)
Gastone Pescucci - Borghese
Elvira Cortese - Madame Oro, Stage Passenger

Music: Sergio Bardotti Luis Enríquez Bacalov
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Plot Outline: A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.
Plot: 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 Jefferson, where they can confront the three powerful Saxon brothers, and reveal the surprising truth about who killed The Patriarch.

Movie Quotes: [first lines]
Madame Oro, Stage Passenger: Hey Driver, can't you put the fear of God into those mules of yours?


Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The opening credits are shown on different playing cards. They 'magically' change when a magician's hand flips, turns, and waves his hands over the cards.

Goofs: We know about 3 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Anachronisms: The film takes place during the old west sometime after 1870. However it features a German MG42 machine gun. The MG42 was put into service by the German army in 1942 during WWII.

Trivia: There are 109 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Ernest Borgnine, Edward G. Robinson, Orson Welles, and George C. Scott were considered by Paramount Pictures for the role of Vito Corleone. Burt Lancaster wanted the role but was never considered. When Paramount considered casting Italian producer Carlo Ponti, director Francis Ford Coppola objected, as Vito was Italian-American and more a New Yorker than Italian, and thus wouldn't speak with Ponti's Italian accent. When asked his opinion by the Paramount brass, Coppola said he wanted to cast either Laurence Olivier or Marlon Brando as the Don. In a September/October 2003 "Cigar Aficionado" magazine cover story, Coppola said, "I wanted either an Italian-American or an actor who's so great that he can portray an Italian-American. So, they said, 'Who do you suggest?' I said, 'Lookit, I don't know, but who are the two greatest actors in the world? Laurence Olivier and Marlon Brando. Well, Laurence Olivier is English. He looked just like Vito Genovese. His face is great.' I said, 'I could see Olivier playing the guy, and putting it on.' [And] Brando is my hero of heroes. I'd do anything to just meet him. But he's 47, he's a young, good-looking guy. So, we first inquired about Olivier and they said, 'Olivier is not taking any jobs. He's very sick. He's gonna die soon and he's not interested.' So, I said, 'Why don't we reach out for Brando?'" Frank Sinatra, despite his reported distaste for the novel and opposition to the film, had discussions with Coppola about playing the role himself and at one point actually offered his services. Coppola, however, was adamant in his conviction that Brando take the role instead. This would be the third time Brando performed in a part sought by Sinatra, after playing Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954) and Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls (1955/I). Brando's previous film, Queimada (1969), had been a terrible flop and he could not get work in American pictures, being considered by many producers as "washed up". Paramount executives initially would offer Marlon Brando only union scale for the role of Don Corleone. Finally, the studio relented and paid Brando $300,000, according to Coppola's account. In his autobiography The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002), former Paramount production chief Robert Evans claims that Brando was paid $50,000, plus points, and sold back his points to Paramount before the release of the picture for an additional $100,000 because he had female-related money troubles. Realizing the film was going to be a huge hit, Paramount was happy to oblige. This financial fleecing of Brando, according to Evans, is the reason he refused to do publicity for the picture or appear in the sequel two years later.
• At Connie's wedding, Sonny is seen in close quarters with Lucy Mancini (Jeannie Linero) Connie's maid of honour at the event (wearing a pink dress). According to the novel, Sonny takes Lucy as his mistress (she is "that young girl" Don Corleone mentions to Sonny; she is also seen before Sonny visits Connie). The novel and film trilogy differ on her fate, though: in the novel she eventually moves on, settling down with a Las Vegas doctor; she is briefly seen in The Godfather: Part III (1990), with her son Vincent playing a major role.
• A promotional board game titled "The Godfather Game" was released in 1971.

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