Taglines: He’s Judge… Jury… Executioner!
Return of Sabata movie storyline. Sabata, a former Confederate army officer and steely eyed, quick-drawing, impossibly accurate gunman with a trick gun, is working for a travelling circus as a stunt marksman. The circus comes to a small Texas town, where a former subordinate officer, a lieutenant from the army is running a crooked casino. The man owes Sabata $5,000 from sometime ago.
Then the circus manager runs off with the circus funds, so Sabata decides to stay in town and try to collect on the debt from his friend. Sabata then runs into conflict with the town’s land baron, McIntock, who imposes high taxes on gambling, drinking and prostitution with the supposed idea of building the town up, using the money.
Sabata, who is after the money himself, finds out that the townspeople’s money in McIntock’s safe is counterfeit and that he and the priest have hidden it elsewhere, in the form of gold coins. After a few attempts on his life and lots of badmen dying under his guns, Sabata and the lieutenant are apparently killed so McIntock goes for the money, only to find them both still alive. Sabata is helped throughout by his friends; the acrobat, his partner and a fat, pompous man who is anything but what he seems.
Return of Sabata (Italian: È tornato Sabata… hai chiuso un’altra volta, lit. ‘Sabata is back … you’re finished again’) is a 1971 Spaghetti Western film directed by Gianfranco Parolini. The third film in The Sabata Trilogy, it features the return of Lee Van Cleef as the title character, which he had played in the first film, Sabata, but was replaced by Yul Brynner in the second film, Adiós, Sabata, due to a scheduling conflict. Return of Sabata was listed in the 1978 book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
Return of Sabata (1971)
Directed by: Gianfranco Parolini
Starring: Lee Van Cleef, Reiner Schöne, Giampiero Albertini, Ignazio Spalla, Annabella Incontrera, Jacqueline Alexandre, Aldo Canti, Vassili Karis, Steffen Zacharias, Pia Giancaro
Screenplay by: Renato Izzo, Gianfranco Parolini
Production Design by: Luciano Puccini
Cinematography by: Sandro Mancori
Film Editing by: Gianfranco Parolini
Costume Design by: Claudio De Santis
Music by: Marcello Giombini
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: United Artists (United States)
Release Date: September 3, 1971 (Italy)
Views: 160