SHERIFF WON'T SHOOT (1965) Renato Polselli | Gianni Dei
4659DVD
original Italian title: LO SCERIFFO CHE NON SPARA [The Sheriff
Won't Shoot]
director:
Renato Polselli (as Lionel A. Prestol)
starring: Mickey Hargitay
· Vincente
Cashino ·
Aiche Nana
· Marco Mariani (as Dan Clark) · Gianni Dei
Sheriff Jim Day
(played by Marco Mariani) was once the best gunman in Texas, until
the day he accidentally killed his father. He tossed his badge and
abandoned the Colt 45 forever. When he goes back to hometown Richmond
to marry childhood sweetheart Desireee (Aiche Nana), her father -
a bigshot banker - appoints him sheriff after a tragic stagecoach
robbery. Jim takes the job seriously and feels he can investigate
without relying on a firearm. Meanwhile, he reunites with his brother
Alan (Mickey Hargitay), secretly the leader of a five-man gang of
outlaws who robbed the coach and stole $100,000. Besides being a bandit,
Alan has another dark secret: In Jim's absence, brother Alan has been
playing intimate sex games with Desiree.
The credits for
this movie list two directors: Lionel A. Prestol and José Luis
Monter (a known alias attributed to Spanish filmmaker Roberto Montero).
But in a 1995 interview, Renato Polselli says
he "directed the entire picture and Montero was used only as
a financial advantage to attract producers who needed the film to
be a Spanish/Italian production." Frankly, such a statement is
unnecessary having seen the film. It clearly bears his unmistakable
trademarks [e.g., the closeups of panicked females wide-open
eyes, unique camera angles (especially those shot through the spread
legs of a gunman), the gaudy set designs with jarring clashes of color,
the interaction of screaming actors at more than an acceptable distance
from each other, bizarre characters with difficult-to-understand motivations,
etc].
Please
note: This movie was transferred from an old 3/4 inch tape.
Some slight gaussian pixilation occurs during fast movement and some
scene changes.
A
Spanish/Italian film; with English subtitles;
fully uncut (82 min)
fullscreen format, DVDs encoded for ALL REGION NTSC,
playable on any American DVD machine.
Extras include Spaghetti Western trailers.
Violence/Sexual
Brutality
Recommended for Mature Audiences