Just watched this Garko vehicle. A very nice film with an incredible grim and sinister ending. Gian Maria Volonteās brother Claudio Camaso plays the bad guyā¦
Has anybody besides me noticed the similarities between the opening sequences of Romolo Guerrieriās $10,000 Blood Money and Bergmanās The Seventh Seal?
It makes me think Guerrieriās is something of a parody of Bergmanās. They both begin with shots of birds. They both have their āherosā (Django & Antonius Block) awaken with a sigh.
There are horses along the beach, rolling surf, and, of course, Death.
$10,000 Blood Moneyās sequence is played for a dark laugh and works well (it is one of my favorite opening sequences in a Spaghetti).
I did a search on this site and did not see any mention of The Seventh Seal.
Maybe there is word of this elsewhere.
As far as I know you are the first to notice these similarities
When you watch the first minutes of Bergmanās movie, itās hard to imagine that Guerrieri did not pay homage to (or parody) it
Like you say, the opening scene of Diecimila dollari ⦠is dark and funny
That are probably not the adjectives you first think about talking about Bergman (although he certainly had some sense of humour) but I guess Guerrieri was impressed by Bergmanās visuals, especially his christian symbolism; grown up in catholic Italy, with christian imagery and symbols around nearly every corner, most spaghetti western directors have developed a powerful visual style, with vivid references to christian iconography
I like his voice which is very creepy and sounds like some horror movie villain. Claudio Camaso is one of my favorite actors of the genre. I donāt know if he dubbed himself but same voice is also used in Vengeance and Vengeance is mine.
I havenĆĀ“t seen this one for ages but I got hold of Franco CleefĆĀ“s version some time ago, IĆĀ“ll think I will pop that disc into the player today. Great music by Nora Orlandi ads to the fun.
Based on Italian track of German DVD. Onscreen credits are in Italian. All names are the same in German track except nicknames.
Gary Hudson as Django
Loredana Nusciak as Mijanou
Claudio Camaso as Manuel Vasquez [size=8pt] : Vasqiez on IMDb, this incorrect, Vasquez on warrant[/size]
Adriana Ambesi as Dolores Mendoza [size=8pt] : Mendossa in English subtitles which seems unlikely spelling[/size]
Pinuccio Ardia as Sette Dollari [size=8pt]: Seven Dollars in English subtitles, Sieben Dollar in German track[/size]
Fidel Gonzales as Fidelio
Franco Lantieri as Juan
Massimo Sarchielli as Cisco
Ermelinda De Felice as Rosita [size=8pt]: LaPola on IMDb, this name does not seem to be mentioned, Sancho does say something butās itās definitely not LaPola[/size]
Dada Gallotti as Scarfaceās Whore
Franco Bettella
Aldo Cecconi as Scarface
Renato Montalbano
Peggy Nathan
Nando Poggi as Vasquez Henchman
Mirko Valentin as Vasquez Henchman [size=8pt]: Cisco on IMDb, this is incorrect, Cisco is Massimo Sarchielli[/size]
Fernando Sancho as Manuelās Father [size=8pt]: at one point the subtitles say āthey call me Stardustā. I do hear something like āPolvere di Stelleā in Italian track but I have no idea what the sentence is.[/size]
Rocco Lerro as Joe (uncredited)
Jimmy il Fenomeno as Bartender (uncredited) [size=8pt]: thank god this afwul āactorā doesnāt get any actual screentime, 1 quick shot of his moronic face[/size]
Herman Reynoso as Mendoza (uncredited)