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1971 | Color | 157 min

John Mallory, an Irish explosives expert, meets a bandit, Juan Miranda, in Mexico. Together they plan to rob a bank, or at least that is what Miranda thinks. To his surprise, the local bank he thought they were dynamating is actually a prison for revolutionaries. Mallory knows this because he is an activist himself who supports the Mexican Revolution. A while later, after becoming the recently-freed prisoners’ heroes, the government troops begin to pursue them …

 


Country: Italia
Direction: Leone; Sergio
Script: Donati; Sergio, Vincenzoni; Luciano, Leone; Sergio
Production: Morsella; Fulvio, Mancini; Claudio, Tucci; Ugo
Photography: Ruzzolini; Giuseppe
Sound: Billingsley; Michael
Music: Morricone; Ennio
Cast:Steiger; Rod, Valli; Romolo, Monti; Maria, Coburn; James, Battaglia; Rik
Participation year at FICM: 2010

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