The Specialists (film)

The Specialists
French film poster
Directed bySergio Corbucci
Screenplay by
  • Sergio Corbucci
  • Sabatino Ciuffini[1]
Story bySergio Corbucci
Sabatino Ciuffini
Uncredited:
Lee Van Cleef[2]
Starring
CinematographyDario Di Palma[3]
Edited byElsa Armanni[3]
Music byAngelo Francesco Lavagnino[3]
Color processTechnicolor
Production
companies
  • Adelphia Compagnia Cinematografica
  • Les Films Marceau
  • Neue Emelka[3]
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 26 November 1969 (1969-11-26) (Italy)
  • 10 April 1970 (1970-04-10) (Germany)
  • 22 April 1970 (1970-04-22) (France)
Running time
104 minutes
Countries
  • Italy
  • France
  • West Germany[1]
LanguagesFrench
Italian
Box office
  • £309.9 million (Italy)
  • 1,252,173 admissions (France)

The Specialists (Italian: Gli specialisti, also known as Drop Them or I'll Shoot) is a 1969 Spaghetti Western co-written and directed by Sergio Corbucci. It was an international co-production between Italy, France and West Germany.[4] Retrospective critics and scholars of Corbucci's Westerns have deemed The Specialists to be the final film in the director's "Mud and Blood" trilogy, which also includes Django (1966) and The Great Silence (1968).[5]

  1. ^ a b c "Fahrt zur Hölle, ihr Halunken". Filmportal.de. Retrieved September 19, 2018.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference CoxCommentary1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b c d e "Gli specialisti (1969)" (in Italian). Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. Retrieved September 19, 2018.
  4. ^ Cox, p. 267–268
  5. ^ Hughes, Howard (2020). Western Excess: Sergio Corbucci and The Specialists (booklet). Eureka Entertainment. p. 8. EKA70382.