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3.5/5 Blu-ray Music by André Hossein Initial release 1968 Music director André Hossein | 6.9/10 IMDb 3/5 Amazon Edited by Marie-Sophie Dubus Director Robert Hossein Cinematography Henri Persin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Produced by Jean-Pierre Labatut
Jean-Charles Raffini Screenplay by Robert Hossein
Claude DeSailly
Italian Version:
Dario Argento Starring Michèle Mercier
Robert Hossein
Lee Burton
Daniel Vargas
Michel Lemoine
Anne-Marie Balin Production
companies Loisirs Du Monde
Copernicus Films
Fono Roma Written by Robert Hossein, Dario Argento, Claude Desailly Cast Robert Hossein, Michèle Mercier, Guido Lollobrigida, Daniele Vargas, Michel Lemoine Similar Directed by Robert Hossein, Spaghetti westerns, Revenge movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cemetery Without Crosses (French: Une corde... un Colt..., Italian: Cimitero senza croci), also known as The Rope and the Colt, is a 1969 French-Italian Spaghetti Western starring, co-written and directed by Robert Hossein.
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Plot
Will Rogers, the despotic patriarch of a wealthy cattle ranching family, forces the sheep farming Caine brothers - Ben, Thomas and Eli - to sell off their land. In retaliation, the Caines steal a shipment of gold coins intended for the Rogers; during their escape, Ben is wounded. Thomas and Eli ride to their ranch, while Ben, upon returning to his home, is ambushed by the Rogers and lynched as his wife, Maria, is forced by Will's sons to watch. The Rogers then ride to Thomas and Eli's ranch and burn down their house. The brothers ride to Maria's home to find her burying her husband, give her a third-share of the stolen money, and suggest that they leave for Mexico.
Driven by revenge, Maria take the money to a ghost town surrounded by dunes, where she meets its lone inhabitant, Manuel. A gunfighter with a fetishistic habit of wearing a black leather glove in duels, Manuel had once shared a polyamorous relationship with Maria and Ben, but he left the pair to marry in order to suppress his violent nature. Maria asks him to avenge Ben on her behalf - although reluctant and sceptical, Manuel accepts her offer.
Manuel rides to a nearby town and stays at a hotel that Will's sons frequent. In the local saloon, vigilantes from the rival Vallee family confront and attack the Rogers brothers in an attempt to run them out of town. Manuel kills the Vallees, and is quickly arrested. The next morning, the Rogers brothers bribe the sheriff into releasing Manuel, and take him to their family's ranch. Thankful for saving his sons, Will provides Manuel a job as the ranch's foreman. That night, Manuel dines with the Rogers and their ranch hands, during which he opens a jar of mustard to find a jack-in-the-box, resulting in both dinner tables erupting with laughter as they accept him as their friend.
Later, Manuel opens the ranch's corral and frees the horses; during the commotion as the Rogers try to pursue their mounts, he kidnaps Diana, Will's teenage daughter, and takes her to the ghost town. To ensure that they exact their ultimate revenge on the Rogers, Thomas and Eli rape Diana, while Maria and Manuel, growing increasingly impassioned and uncomfortable with the situation that is transpiring, wait outside in the street. Maria rides to the Rogers ranch and demands that they re-bury Ben in the town cemetery in exchange for Diana's life. They begrudgingly accept, and provide Ben with a sizeable funeral procession and burial. Thomas and Eli, fearing that Maria's revenge scheme will result in disaster, attempt to convince Manuel to surrender Diana to them, but they are forced to leave when he threatens to kill them.
The Rogers capture the Caine brothers; in exchange for $2000, Thomas offers to return Diana to her family that night. His attempt to surprise Maria and Manuel fails, and they shoot him. Thomas' horse drags his dead body to the rendezvous point, where Eli confesses that Diana is in the ghost town. Upon learning this, Will has him dragged to death by a horse. Maria and Manuel leave the ghost town separately; Manuel takes Diana back to her family's ranch, while Maria returns to her home to wait for Manuel so that they can travel north and escape. However, the Rogers, believing that she and Manuel have killed Diana, are waiting for her. Manuel finds Maria mortally wounded; admitting that she had married Ben out of fear of not seeing Manuel again, she dies in his arms.
Manuel rides to the ghost town to see the Rogers waiting for him on one side of the street, and he guns them down in quick succession. Diana, on horseback and armed with a rifle, witnesses the duel. Manuel removes his "killing glove", disarms himself and confronts Diana, who shoots him and rides away as he dies in the sand.
Cast
Production
The film's score was composed by the director's father, André Hossein. The film's theme song "The Rope and the Colt" is sung by Scott Walker and released as a single in France.
Release
Cemetery Without Crosses was released in France in 1969.
The film was released by Arrow Video in the United Kingdom and United States on Blu-Ray and DVD on July 20, 2015.