| The Savage Guns | |
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| Directed by | Michael Carreras |
| Written by | Story: Peter R. Newman Screenplay: Edmund Morris |
| Produced by | Jimmy Sangster José Gutiérrez Maesso |
| Starring | Richard Basehart Don Taylor Alex Nicol José Manuel Martín Fernando Rey José Nieto |
| Cinematography | Alfredo Fraile |
| Edited by | Pedro del Rey David Hawkins |
| Music by | Antón García Abril |
| Distributed by | MGM |
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Running time | 83 min. |
| Countries | United Kingdom Spain |
| Language | English |
| Box office | 6,922,551 (Pts) |
The Savage Guns (Spanish: Tierra brutal) is a 1961 Eurowestern film, an international co-production by British and Spanish producers. Based on a specially commissioned screenplay, The San Siado Killings, written by Peter R. Newman and directed by Michael Carreras, the film is credited as the first traditional Spaghetti Western.
The film was noticeably set apart from previous "classic" American westerns starring an American leading cast (Richard Basehart, Don Taylor and Alex Nicol) and Spanish actors in supporting roles (José Manuel Martín, Paquita Rico, María Granada, Fernando Rey and José Nieto) as well as its unique use of the deserts, palm trees, agaves and whitewashed villages of southern Spain. It was also the first western to be shot on location in Almeria, Spain, an area which would be often used in later Spaghetti Westerns during the next two decades.[1]
- ^ Viñas, Ernesto Garret (July 2005). "El spaghetti western: La historia de un género cinematográfico que inspiraría a Stephen King para escribir su saga". Insomnia (in Spanish). Magazine film Mabuse. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2018.