John the Bastard (film)

John the Bastard
John the Bastard
Directed by	Armando Crispino
Written by	Armando Crispino ; Lucio Battistrada
Produced by	Francesco & Vincenzo Genesi
Starring	John Richardson; Claudio Camaso; Martine Beswick; Luisa Della Noce; Claudio Gora; Furio Meniconi; Gia Sandri; Nadia Scarpitta; Patrizia Valturri; Glauco Onorato; Gordon Mitchell
Cinematography	Sante Achilli
Edited by	Franco Fraticelli
Music by	Nico Fidenco
Release date	1967;
Languages	Italian ; English

John the Bastard (Italian: John il bastardo) is a 1967 Italian Spaghetti Western film written and directed by Armando Crispino and starring John Richardson.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Plot

John is the illegitimate son of a wealthy landowner. He decides to take revenge for the disinterest that his father has always shown towards him. He becomes the lover of his stepbrother's wife and when he challenges him to a duel he kills him. The woman commits suicide and John, satisfied, continues his cynical existence until the relatives of other women seduced by him try to kill him.

Cast

John Richardson as John Donald Tenorio
Claudio Camaso as Don Francisco Tenorio
Martine Beswick as Dona Antonia
Claudio Gora as Don Diego Tenorio
Furio Meniconi as Papa Buck
Gordon Mitchell as Danite
Glauco Onorato as Morenillo
Gia Sandri as Gertrude
Luisa Della Noce as Sara
Nadia Scarpitta as Chica
Patrizia Valturri as Edith
Thelma Anderson
Vittorio Manfrino
Loredana Giustini
Mirella Pompili
Piero Vida as Sacerdote
Margherita Horowitz as Old Maid Aunt
Remo De Angelis
Claudia Gravy
Román Ariznavarreta as Hermano de Gertrode

References

^ Marco Giusti (2007). Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. ISBN 978-88-04-57277-0.
^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia; Mario Pecorari (1991). Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN 8876055932.
^ Thomas Weisser (22 August 2005). Spaghetti Westerns: the Good, the Bad and the Violent. McFarland, 2005. ISBN 0786424427.

External links

John the Bastard at IMDb

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[sed-1] Marco Giusti (2007). Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. ISBN 978-88-04-57277-0.

[60-69-l-2] Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia; Mario Pecorari (1991). Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN 8876055932.

[3] Thomas Weisser (22 August 2005). Spaghetti Westerns: the Good, the Bad and the Violent. McFarland, 2005. ISBN 0786424427.

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