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La ciudad maldita (1978)

La ciudad maldita poster
Directed by
Juan Bosch
Genre
Spaghetti Western
Country
Italy, Spain
Runtime
1h 31m
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A stranger arrives in a corrupt town and plays two rival gangs against each other. The film follows his manipulative scheme to bring order through chaos.

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What happens

La ciudad maldita (known in Italian as La Notte rossa del falcon) is a 1978 Spanish-Italian Spaghetti Western murder mystery film directed by Juan Bosch. The film was written by Alberto De Stefanis, produced by José María Cunillés, scored by Franco Julian, and starring Diana Lorys, Luciano Pigozzi, Roberto Camardiel and Daniel Martín. It is based on the novel Red Harvest, by Dashiell Hammett, inspired in Yojimbo, by Kurosawa, and A Fistful of Dollars, by Sergio Leone. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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