Johnny Oro (1966)

Director:

Sergio Corbucci

Writers:

Adriano Bolzoni (story) and
Franco Rossetti (story) ...

Release Date:

3 March 1967 (Finland)

Genre:

Western

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Apache | Child | Iron Will | Mexican Border | Mexican

Cast

Mark Damon	...	Johnny Oro / Ringo
Valeria Fabrizi	...	Margie
Franco De Rosa	...	Juanito Perez (as Franco Derosa)
Giulia Rubini
Loris Loddi	...	Stan Norton
Andrea Aureli	...	Gilmore
Pippo Starnazza	...	Matt
Ettore Manni	...	Sheriff
Nino Vingelli
John Bartha
Vittorio Bonos		(as Vittorio Williams Bonos)
Bruno Scipioni
Silvana Bacci
Giulio Maculani
Giovanni Cianfriglia		(as Ken Wood)

Also Known As:

Ringo and His Golden Pistol

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

Norway:16 | West Germany:16 (nf) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Elios Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Sanson-Film

Surreal Italian western.

Just when we thought cowboy movies had gone belly up, along came this operatic horse opera with a black outfit hero with a droopy mustache and a gilded side arm who goes about offing the clean cut family for the price on their heads - well they were murdering bandidos but still!

All the energy and flamboyance that the plodding dollars films lacked and concepts that belonged in Italianate literature. Mark Damon stopping off between Roger Corman and being a corporate heavy was something new in movie heroes and, after blowing up the town, there he was facing an adversary who tells him "Smile at me Ringo, for I am death." How long had this been going on?