The Forgotten Pistolero

Based On the book by Aeschylus

The Forgotten Pistolero (Italian: Il pistolero dell'Ave Maria, lit. "The Gunman of Hail Mary") is a 1969 Italian Spaghetti Western film co-written and directed by Ferdinando Baldi. The film is a western adaptation of the Greek myth of Orestes, subject of three famous drama-plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Ulrich P. Bruckner puts it among the "most interesting and most touching Spaghetti Westerns of the late sixties".

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Release date:

1969

Director:

Ferdinando Baldi

Cast:

Leonard Mann, Luciana Paluzzi, Peter Martell, Alberto de Mendoza, Pilar Velázquez

Genre:

Spaghetti Western

Country:

Italy, Spain

Language:

Italian

Year page:

1969 in adaptations