Sabata (film)

Infobox Film
name = Sabata


caption = The DVD cover.
director = Gianfranco Parolini
producer = Alberto Grimaldi
writer = Renato Izzo Gianfranco Parolini
narrator =
starring = Lee Van Cleef William Berger
music = Marcello Giombini
cinematography = Sandro Mancori
editing = Edmond Lozzi
distributor = MGM/UA
released = flagicon|Italy 1969 flagicon|United States September 2, 1970
runtime = 111 min.
country = Italy
language = English
Italian
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by = "Adiós, Sabata" "Return of Sabata"
website =
amg_id = 1:108590
imdb_id = 0064916

"Sabata" (Italian: Ehi amico ... c'è Sabata, hai chiuso!, roughly translated as "Hey buddy ... that's Sabata, you're finished!"), is a 1969 Italian Spaghetti Western directed by Gianfranco Parolini. It is the first film in "The Sabata Trilogy" by Parolini, and stars Lee Van Cleef as the title character. The music is from .

Plot

Sabata, a man-of-few-words gunhand, arrives in a small Texas town to foil a bank robbery, and discovers that it was a plot by the town's leaders, who want to sell the town to the railroad. Sabata blackmails the leader, Stengel, who then sends various thugs to try and kill him, among them a conflicted killer named Banjo, so named for the musical instrument he carries that conceals a rifle.

Cast

* Lee Van Cleef as Sabata
* William Berger as Banjo
* Ignazio Spalla as Carrincha
* Aldo Canti as Indio
* Franco Ressel as Stengel
* Antonio Gradoli as Ferguson
* Linda Veras as Jane
* Claudio Undari as Oswald
* Gianni Rizzo as Judge O'Hara

External links

*imdb title|id=0064916|title=Ehi amico... c'è Sabata, hai chiuso!
*amg movie|id=1:108590|title=Sabata
* [http://spaghettiwesterns.1g.fi/sabata/sabata.htm Sabata at Shobary's Spaghetti Westerns]