A Man Called Sledge (1970)

Directed by

Giorgio Gentili, Vic Morrow

Genre

heist film, Spaghetti Western

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

R

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 38 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A hardened thief leads a gang to rob a gold shipment. The film follows him as he faces betrayal and violence in the Old West.

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What happens

A Man Called Sledge is a 1970 Italian Spaghetti Western film starring James Garner in an extremely offbeat role as a grimly hardened thief, and featuring Dennis Weaver, Claude Akins and Wayde Preston. The film was written by Vic Morrow and Frank Kowalski, and directed by Morrow in Techniscope. Garner wrote in his memoirs that this movie was "one of the few times I've played a heavy and one of the last. I wish I could remember why I let Dino de Laurentiis talk me into this turkey. The poster says 'Not suitable for children.' It should say 'not suitable for consumption.'" (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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