A Coffin for the Sheriff / Una bara per lo sceriffo (Mario Caiano, 1965)

I concur, just got my copy in the mail today and itā€™s a great release. I already had this on a Wild East double bill but here the film runs 2 mins longer the picture quality is an upgrade so I am a happy gunslinger.

Both Gonzalo BraƱa and Francisco R. Alacid are in the 1966 Spanish movie Cotolay, now available on YouTube as El niƱo y el lobo.

Our henchman named Sam is in, thereā€™s no doubt about it! The guy on the left could be the same actor who plays Peter, but having checked quickly Iā€™m not sure of that.

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Also present in Gianni Pucciniā€™s Fury of Johnny Kid

After watching Cotolay, the more I compare the guy in El Cadete San Martin, Iā€™m seeing him, if you shaved Sam, the woodcutter or the Mounters son, or put a beard on him. The YouTube video is too low resolution to see facial lines but these all may be the same guy.

Looks like youā€™re on to Peter and the other woodcutter too

Good, it looks like we finally found out which of the two is Gonzalo!

Isnā€™t the other bearded henchman on Reply #38, 2nd pic Rafael Vaquero?

Yes, but the guy behind him is also familiar.

From Adios Gringo

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Due once di piombo! :slightly_smiling_face:

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This movieā€™s page in the SWDb has been updated to the new layout. Please submit any corrections, info, facts, links, reviews or pictures that could be added, thanks!

I just watched this one again.
If someone could update the main page: Una bara per lo sceriffo

At least some of the ā€œfilming locationā€ was set at Hoyo de Manzanares and Colmenar Viejo

Thanks,

done

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Surely ā€˜Shenendoahā€™ has been used because that was the title of the recent James Stewart movie?

Oh Shenandoah, I long to see you ā€¦ a spiritually uplifting interlude amidst all the brutalities and ugliness of Italian Westerns. :sunglasses:

Credits page has been created for Una Bara per lo Sceriffo (A Coffin for the Sheriff)

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Canā€™t say this is one of Steffenā€™s top films but itā€™s definitely enjoyable. I need to get around to ranking them all when I can. I think my top five Steffenā€™s at the moment are:

  1. Apocalypse Joe
  2. Django the Bastard
  3. No Room to Die
  4. A Man Called Django
  5. They Believed He Was a Saint (or possibly Gentleman Killer)

This one is somewhere in the middle. I think I prefer Seven Dollars on the Red but this one is certainly better than Some Dollars for Django and miles better than Tequila/Fuzzy the Hero.

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I have a soft spot for A Coffin for the Sheriff. It certainly has some pretty naive moments, and some cheap looking hats, but in general it has everything I want from an early SW, including a soundtrack by de Masi slowly finding his own Western style. As a bonus thereā€™s Arturo Dominici who I love to see if heā€™s cast well (heā€™s perfect in Castle of Blood, for instance).

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For some reason I had no recollection of watching it until I realised it was one of the few westerns I watched on Amazon prime. Iā€™m glad I gave it another try. I definitely like it because I also enjoy these early spaghetti-paellas. The German DVD is very good, too!