Une corde (1968)

Original title

Une corde, un Colt...

Directed by

Robert Hossein

Genre

Spaghetti Western

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

16

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 78 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A widow named Maria Caine asks her old friend Manuel to avenge her husband's murder by bandits. Manuel is hesitant at first but eventually sets out to hunt down the killers.

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What happens

Cemetery Without Crosses (French: Une corde, un Colt..., Italian: Cimitero senza croci), is a 1969 Western film by Robert Hossein, its director, co-screenwriter and star. It is a French and Italian co-production and stars Michèle Mercier as Maria Caine and Hossein as Manuel. In the film, Caine's husband is murdered by bandits. She seeks revenge through her old friend Manuel, who is initially reluctant, but then goes after the widow's killers. The film was shot in the Almería desert in early 1968. On its release author Raymond Chirat said that Cemetery Without Crosses divided French critics with some reviews saying it borrowed too much from Italian spaghetti westerns and others finding it satisfying, and critic Henry Chapier saying it found Hossein delving into "his genuine strength and his love for frenzy and the baroque." It has received positive retrospective reviews in Film Comment and Sight & Sound. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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