The Forgotten Pistolero (1969)

Original title

Il pistolero dell'Ave Maria

Directed by

Ferdinando Baldi

Genre

Spaghetti Western

Country

Italy, Spain

Runtime

1h 31m

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A gunman returns to his family estate years after his mother betrayed and abandoned him. He seeks vengeance against her and her lover, guided by his sister.

melancholicrevenge-drivenoperaticmythictensebroodingvisceraltragic

What happens

The Forgotten Pistolero (Italian: Il pistolero dell'Ave Maria, lit. "The Gunman of Hail Mary") is a 1969 Italian Spaghetti Western film co-written and directed by Ferdinando Baldi. The film is a western adaptation of the Greek myth of Orestes, subject of three famous drama-plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Ulrich P. Bruckner puts it among the "most interesting and most touching Spaghetti Westerns of the late sixties". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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