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Sabata: Directed by Gianfranco Parolini. With Lee Van Cleef, William Berger, Ignazio Spalla, Aldo Canti. A master gunfighter sides with a banjo-playing drifter and a Mexican tramp to foil the dignitaries of Daugherty, who want to use stolen army money to buy land that the railroad will cross.
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Sabata is the first film of the Sabata trilogy and is easily one of the best westerns from Italy. It's characters are very memorable. Van Cleef portrays the anti hero Sabata perfectly who will do anything for money while the actor playing the beggar is surprisingly funny to this day.
Sabata: Directed by Gianfranco Parolini. With Lee Van Cleef, William Berger, Ignazio Spalla, Aldo Canti. A master gunfighter sides with a banjo-playing drifter and a Mexican tramp to foil the dignitaries of Daugherty, who want to use stolen army money to buy land that the railroad will cross.
Return of Sabata: Directed by Gianfranco Parolini. With Lee Van Cleef, Reiner Schöne, Giampiero Albertini, Ignazio Spalla. The citizens of Hobsonville hire Sabata to rid them of the McIntock clan, who are forcibly and unlawfully taxing them under the pretext of town development.
Adiós, Sabata: Directed by Gianfranco Parolini. With Yul Brynner, Dean Reed, Ignazio Spalla, Gérard Herter. Sabata helps a band of Mexican revolutionaries steal a wagon-load of gold from the occupying Austrian forces of Emperor Maximilian I.
Lee Van Cleef was asked to star in this film, but rejected the offer for some reason. He was then replaced by Brynner, whose character would only be called Sabata in the international English language version, and Indio Black in the Italian version.
Sabata the Killer: Directed by Tulio Demicheli. With Anthony Steffen, Peter Lee Lawrence, Eduardo Fajardo, Alfredo Mayo. Sabata and Mangosta are bank robbers, who after a bank job, through a series of events, end up teaming up with the bank clerk, Peter.
Body count: 75. The main villain Stengel has been criticized as an overtly homophobic stereotype that would never be allowed in a film today.
This was actually the second "Sabata" film. Because of the success of the original "Sabata" (1969), an unrelated spaghetti western starring Yul Brynner had his character renamed "Sabata" in the English dubbing and that dubbed version was released under the title "Adios, Sabata" (1971).
