The Five Man Army

The Five Man Army
The Five Man Army film poster
Directed byDon Taylor
Screenplay byMarc Richards
Dario Argento
Produced byItalo Zingarelli
StarringPeter Graves
James Daly
Bud Spencer
Nino Castelnuovo
Tetsuro Tamba
CinematographyEnzo Barboni
Edited bySergio Montanari
Music byEnnio Morricone
Production
company
Tiger Film
Distributed byDelta (Italy)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (International)
Release date
  • October 16, 1969 (1969-10-16)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguagesItalian
English

The Five Man Army (Italian: Un esercito di 5 uomini) is a 1969 Italian Zapata Western film in which a group of five men are enlisted to rob a train of a gold shipment during the Mexican Revolution.[1] Directed by Don Taylor, it featured a script by a young Dario Argento, later future maestro of the horror and thriller genre, and a score by Ennio Morricone. Argento also directed some sequences of the film without being credited.[2]

  1. ^ "Esercito di cinque uomini, Un". spaghetti-western.net. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
  2. ^ "Esercito di cinque uomini, Un - the Spaghetti Western Database".