I donât think the last screenshot was in the film! 
I guess Giusti hasnât seen the movie. He usually admits this, but thereâs no similar remark in the text here.
Chet Bakon ⊠what a name âŠ
Maybe cut by the censor ⊠(not for horse falls in any case)
He cannot have seen it. There is no mistaking the guy who plays the OP for Garko, as you can see from the screenshots. Nor anybody else
No, seems as likely as one of us beating Usain Bolt on the 100 m
And I donât know about Camardiel either. According to Boschâ filmografia revised by himself, Camardiel is Thaler. Iâll lift a couple of screenshots from my copy tomorrow.
He shouldnât be too difficult to identify, unless he lost a lot of weight. I remember seeing him in a movie made a couple of years before his glory days; I didnât recognize him but I realized that I had seen that face before: he had put on a lot of weight since that movie and that had changed his features.
I did know about the Garko rumor when I watched the film the second time, so I kept an eye out for him. He is nowhere in the film. Bosch himself commented on this rumor saying Chet Bacon was a âthird-rate regional actorâ, often confused with Gianni Garko, (according to JesĂșs Ăngel GonzĂĄlez LĂłpez on Don Herronâs blog âUp and Down these Mean Streetsâ). Heaven knows why.
I didnât know there was an issue about Camardiel, so I didnât particularly look for him. It seems he is the sheriff, Noonan, as stated on the SWDBâs page on the film. Here some mugshots (actually, I think he has lost some weight):
Max Thaler is obviously played by JosĂ© Daniel Martinez (as Daniel Martin), as is also stated on the SWDBâs page.
The official Bosch filmografia got it wrong, the SWDB got it right.
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I still donât have a decent copy of it, but anyway I have made a review:
https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/La_ciudad_maldita_Review
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Thereâs a chapter that covers this film in Critical Perspectives on the Western: From A Fistful of Dollars to Django Unchained (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016) edited by Lee Broughton.
The chapter is ââGoing Blood-simpleâ: Red Harvest in Filmâ by JesĂșs Ăngel GonzĂĄlez.
I just received an order update on this one. Delivery date postponed to November 23âŠ
âGoing blood simpleâ is from the novel. The OP at some point complains he is going âblood-simple like the nativesâ because of all the killings. The Cohen brothers used it for their first film.
Two stars for this one.
In my opinion Craig Hill, previously directed by Bosch in And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave and My Horse My Gun Your Widow, would have been the better choice for the Continental detective (in 1978 he appeared in The Bloodstained Shadow).
Waiting to know his real name, a couple pictures of Chet Bakon
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The Italian version will be aired a second time on Rai Movie tomorrow 27 July, around 12.30 pm Italian time.
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Are you able to record and upload this somewhere please.
May I get download link of the Italian version please. Or any version copy rip. with good quality.
The Blu-ray of this film was released in Spain on Aug. 2021.
La Ciudad Maldita
Please refer to my review. (unfortunately only in Japanese.)
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This bluray is terrible. It has compression problems and the image moves messing upâŠ
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I also purchased blu ray,no complaintsâŠalso best copy of this movie Iâve seen.
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On this spanish webpage there is given a spanish release date for the movie, as June 24th 1978, while the italian premiere date is the same, (November 29th 1978).
In general, whoever updated this page seems to have knowledge of facts of the filmâŠwhat do you think; is the spanish release date reliable?
Updated the database entry to the new layout. We could do with more info on this movie along with facts, trivia, links, reviews and pictures!