| The Forgotten Pistolero | |
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| Directed by | Ferdinando Baldi |
| Screenplay by | Vincenzo Cerami Pier Giovanni Anchisi Mario di Nardo Federico De Urrutia Ferdinando Baldi |
| Based on | Oresteia by Aeschylus (uncredited) |
| Produced by | Manolo Bolognini |
| Starring | Leonard Mann Luciana Paluzzi Peter Martell Piero Lulli |
| Cinematography | Mario Montuori |
| Edited by | Eugenio Alabiso |
| Music by | Roberto Pregadio |
Production companies | B.R.C. Produzione Film Ízaro Films |
| Distributed by | Produzioni Atlas Consorziate (P.A.C.) |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Countries | Italy Spain |
| Language | Italian |
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.[1][2] Ulrich P. Bruckner puts it among the "most interesting and most touching Spaghetti Westerns of the late sixties".[3]
- ^ "The Forgotten Pistolero Review". Spaghetti Western. Retrieved 3 December 2011.
- ^ José Vicente Bañuls; Francesco De Martino; Carmen Morenilla. El teatro greco-latino y su recepción en la tradición occidental. Levante, 2006. p. 160.
- ^ Ulrich P. Bruckner. Für ein paar Leichen mehr: der Italo-Western von seinen Anfängen bis heute. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2006. p. 313.