The Forgotten Pistolero
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Release date 17 October 1969 (1969-10-17) Writer Pier Giovanni Anchisi (story), Ferdinando Baldi (story), Vincenzo Cerami (story), Federico De Urrutia (story), Mario di Nardo (story) Screenplay Ferdinando Baldi, Vincenzo Cerami, Federico De Urrutia, Pier Giovanni Anchisi, Mario di Nardo Cast (Sebastian Carrasco), (Anna Carrasco), Pietro Martellanza (Rafael Garcia), (Tomas), (Isabella Carrasco), (Francsico)Similar movies The Big Gundown , Hole in the Forehead , Django Unchained , Django , Once Upon a Time in the West , The Good, the Bad and the Ugly |
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The Forgotten Pistolero (Italian: Il pistolero dell'Ave Maria, lit. "The Gunman of Hail Mary") is a 1969 Italian Spaghetti Western film co-written and directed by Ferdinando Baldi. The film is a western adaptation of the Greek myth of Orestes, subject of three famous drama-plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Ulrich P. Bruckner puts it among the "most interesting and most touching Spaghetti Westerns of the late sixties".
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The forgotten pistolero
Plot

When he returns home from war the Mexican general Juan Carrasco is killed by the lover of his wife Anna and by Anna as well. The victim's children run away with their nanny but fifteen years later they come back for revenge. Anna and Tomas want to have them killed but their henchmen fail them. It turns out Anna is not the real mother of the dead general's children.
Cast

Releases

Wild East Productions released this on a limited edition DVD in 2007 with The Unholy Four.




References
The Forgotten Pistolero WikipediaThe Forgotten Pistolero IMDb The Forgotten Pistolero themoviedb.org