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John the Bastard (film)

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John the Bastard
Directed byArmando Crispino
Written byArmando Crispino
Lucio Battistrada
Produced byFrancesco & Vincenzo Genesi
StarringJohn Richardson
CinematographySante Achilli
Edited byFranco Fraticelli
Music byNico Fidenco
Release date
  • 1967 (1967)
LanguageItalian

John the Bastard (Italian: John il bastardo) is a 1967 Italian Spaghetti Western film written and directed by Armando Crispino and starring John Richardson.[1][2][3]

Plot

John is the illegitimate son of a wealthy landowner. He decides to take revenge for the disinterest that his father has always shown towards him. He becomes the lover of his stepbrother's wife and when he challenges him to a duel he kills him. The woman commits suicide and John, satisfied, continues his cynical existence until the relatives of other women seduced by him try to kill him.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Marco Giusti. Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. ISBN 88-04-57277-9.
  2. ^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia; Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN 8876055932.
  3. ^ Thomas Weisser. Spaghetti Westerns: the Good, the Bad and the Violent. McFarland, 2005. ISBN 0786424427.