A LONG RIDE FROM HELL (LIMITED EDITION)

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• Release Year: 1968
• Genre: Foreign; Western
• Plot: A simple revenge tale, A LONG RIDE FROM HELL chronicles the saga of a rancher who, along with his brother, is unjustly convicted of train robbery and sent to Yuma prison. Then he escapes after his brother's death, he undertakes to hunt down the real culprit, a ; friend from his past. ; Steve Reeves' final film was a personal triumph. He had purchased the rights to a first-rate novel, THE JUDAS GUN, by popular writer Gordon (LAST TRAIN FROM GUN HILL) Shirreffs. He then co-wrote the script with Roberto Natale, an accomplished screenwriter who had scored big with Mario Bava's KILL, BABY, KILL. Reeves assumed the role of producer and ; surrounded himself with some of the best-known names in Italian cinema at the time. ; ; In front of the camera, the villains seem like a who's who of Spaghetti Westerns with Wayde (TODAY WE KILL, TOMORROW WE DIE) Preston playing the treacherous 'old friend,' Mimmo (JOHNNY WEST) Palmara a crooked sherriff using his Dick Palmer pseudonym, Nello (MAN FROM NOWHERE) Pazzafini as a sadistic prison guard, and in smaller roles Aldo (FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE) Sambrell and Guido (RED SUN) Lollobrigida. The nominal love interest is Silvana Venturelli from Radley Metzger's LICKERISH QUARTET and the exotic Rosalba Neri is a good-hearted prostitute. Behind the camera is Alex Burks, actually ; Camillo Bazzoni , an accomplished cinematographer whose long list of credits includes two Lina Wertmuller films. The brassy music is the work of Carlo Savina, composer of 27 Spaghetti Western scores including COMIN' AT YA with Tony Anthony and Sergio Corbucci's RINGO AND HIS GOLDEN PISTOL. The camera work is by Enzo Barboni, who later became a director himself as E. B. Clucher, specializing in comedies beginning with the Terence Hill/Bud Spencer TRINITY films. ; Wild East's presentation of A LONG RIDE FROM HELL is the full, uncut European ; version in its original 1:66 to 1 theatrical aspect ratio.
• Cast: Steve Reeves; Wayde Preston; Guido Lollobrigida; Mimmo Palmara; Silvana Venturelli; Nello Pazzafini; Franco Fantasia; Enzo Fiermonte; Aldo Sambrell; Rosalba Neri; Silvana Bacci; Spartaco Conversi; Mario Maranzana; Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia; Franco Balducci; Emma Baron; Bruno Corazzari; Sergio De Vecchi; Rafael Albaicín; Fortunato Arena; Simón Arriaga; Aldo Berti; Remo De Angelis; Tito García; Camillo Bazzoni; Roberto Natale; Gordon D. Shirreffs
• Director: Camillo Bazzoni
• Runtime: 1:26
• Company: Wild East Productions
• Media Format: Movie