Day of Anger

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Day of Anger
Italian film poster
Directed byTonino Valerii
Screenplay byErnesto Gastaldi
Tonino Valerii
Renzo Genta
Based onDer Tod ritt dienstags
by Rolf Becker
(as Ron Barker)
Produced byAlfonso Sansone
Henryk Chrosicki
StarringLee Van Cleef
Giuliano Gemma
Walter Rilla
Christa Linder
CinematographyEnzo Serafin
Edited byFranco Fraticelli
Music byRiz Ortolani
Production
companies
Sancrosiap
Corona Filmproduktion
Divina-Film
Distributed byConsorzio Italiano Distributori Indipendenti Film (CIDIF)
Release dates
  • 19 December 1967 (1967-12-19) (Italy)
  • 12 January 1968 (1968-01-12) (West Germany)
Running time
114 minutes
Countries
  • Italy
  • West Germany[1]
Box office₤1.977 billion

Day of Anger (Italian: I giorni dell'ira [i ˈdʒorni delˈliːra], lit. "The Days of Wrath") is a 1967 Spaghetti Western film directed and co-written by Tonino Valerii and starring Lee Van Cleef and Giuliano Gemma, and features a musical score by Riz Ortolani.[2] The film credits the novel Der Tod ritt dienstags ("Death Rode on Tuesdays") by Ron Barker (Rolf O. Becker) as its basis, although Valerii and screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi have attested that this credit was primarily included to appease the West German co-producers, and that although some scenes are partially borrowed from it, the film is not an adaptation of Becker's novel.[3][4]

Day of Anger was Valerii's second film, as well as his second Spaghetti Western, following Taste for Killing. Valerii went on to film his third Spaghetti Western, The Price of Power, also featuring Gemma, in 1969. The 86" version was released on home media as Days of Wrath.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference filmportal was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Hughes, p.91
  3. ^ "Day of Anger". DVD Talk. Retrieved 2007-04-13.
  4. ^ Day of Anger (Interview with Screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi) (Blu-ray). Hertfordshire, UK: Arrow Films. 1967.