Wanted (1967 film)

Wanted
	Italian theatrical release poster
Directed by	Giorgio Ferroni
Produced by	Gianni Hech Lucari[1]
Screenplay by	Fernando Di Leo; Augusto Finocchi[1];
Story by	Massimiliano Capriccioli; Augusto Finocchi[1];
Starring	Giuliano Gemma; Teresa Gimpera; Serge Marquand; German Cobos;
Music by	Gianni Ferrio[1]
Cinematography	Tony Secchi[1]
Edited by	Antonietta Zita[1]
Production; companies	Documento[1]
Release date	1967;
Running time	104 minutes[1]
Country	Italy[1]

Wanted is a 1967 Italian Western film directed by Giorgio Ferroni and starring Giuliano Gemma, Teresa Gimpera, and Nello Pazzafini.[2] Gemma made two more westerns directed by Ferroni, with similar plots, where his character likewise carried the first name "Gary".[3]

Plot

Gary Ryan, a local sheriff (Giuliano Gemma) is unjustly accused of murder in a small town and forced to flee. He gets rid of his enemies one by one while he tries to prove his innocence.

Cast

Giuliano Gemma as Gary Ryan
Germán Cobos as Martin Heywood
Teresa Gimpera as Evelyn
Serge Marquand as Fred Lloyd
Daniele Vargas as Mayor Samuel "Gold" Goldensberg
Gia Sandri as Cheryl
Nello Pazzafini as Father Carmelo
Benito Stefanelli as Bob Baker
Carlo Hintermann as Judge Anderson
Franco Balducci as Cuzack

Release

Wanted was first released in 1967.[2]

Reception

From contemporary reviews, an anonymous reviewer in the Monthly Film Bulletin noted that "the violence in this Western is excessive even by Italian imitation standards. Still, the plot is a for a change refreshingly straight-forward [...] and the location photography is particularly attractive."[1]

gollark: This is the alt.

gollark: Anonymization, obviously.

gollark: (it has a spare phone repurposed as a cellular modem somewhere so that it isn't apified in the frequent network outages)

gollark: Palaiologos is a neural network running on a spare Nvidia single-board computer in my basement somewhere.

gollark: Not even that, necessarily.

References

"Wanted". Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 37 no. 433. British Film Institute. February 1970. p. 38.
Grant 2011, p. 447.
Fridlund, Bert: The Spaghetti Western. A Thematic Analysis. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company Inc., 2006 pp. 113-8.

Sources

Grant, Kevin (2011). Any Gun Can Play. Fab Press. ISBN 9781903254615.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

External links

Wanted on IMDb

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[mfb-rev-1] "Wanted". Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 37 no. 433. British Film Institute. February 1970. p. 38.

[FOOTNOTEGrant2011447-2] Grant 2011, p. 447.

[3] Fridlund, Bert: The Spaghetti Western. A Thematic Analysis. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company Inc., 2006 pp. 113-8.