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2.9/5 AlloCine Screenplay by Clair Huffaker Story by Lee Hoffman | 6/10 IMDb Directed by John Sturges Initial release 14 September 1973 (Italy) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Produced by John Sturges
Dino De Laurentiis Based on the novel The Valdez Horses
by Lee Hoffman Starring Charles Bronson
Jill Ireland
Marcel Bozzuffi
Vincent Van Patten Music by Guido De Angelis
Maurizio De Angelis Directors John Sturges, Duilio Coletti Music director Maurizio De Angelis, Guido De Angelis Screenplay Clair Huffaker, Massimo de Rita, Arduino Maiuri, Rafael J. Salvia Cast Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Marcel Bozzuffi, Vincent Van Patten, Fausto Tozzi Similar Charles Bronson movies, Horse movies, Westerns | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chino (Italian: Valdez, il mezzosangue, UK theatrical title: Valdez the Half Breed) is a 1973 Italian Western film starring Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Marcel Bozzuffi, and Vincent Van Patten. The original English language title shown at the beginning of the film was The Valdez Horses, the same title that the novel on which the movie is based. It was an Italian-Spanish-French co-production filmed in Spain, with Italian and French funding.
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Plot
Chino Valdez (Bronson) is a lonely horse breeder, whose life is thrown into turmoil when a young runaway (Van Patten) turns up at his door looking for work and, later, he falls in love with a beautiful woman (Ireland) whose brother (Bozzuffi) hates him.
Cast
Critical response
Time Out magazine said of the film, "Bronson suffers from galloping symbolism as Valdez, a wild horse-taming Mexican halfbreed representing different things to different people. Overall, he is the mustang, caught in a wild West which is being tamed and fenced in by white settlers... Despite a few dodgy moments when one really fears for Valdez' co-optability by Ireland's well-kept fragility, the film maintains its contradictory stance right through to a bitter-sweet ending. Valdez leaves, sans wife, sans house, but on his own terms, and after ensuring that if he can't tame the wild horses no one else will.
Copyright
Chino has copyright claim by Peter Rodgers Organization
Distribution representation is also by Peter Rodgers Organization
