The Silent Stranger
| The Silent Stranger | |
|---|---|
 US film poster | |
| Directed by | Vance Lewis |
| Produced by |
Tony Anthony Allen Klein |
| Screenplay by |
Vincenzo Cerami Giancarlo Ferrando |
| Story by | Tony Anthony |
| Starring |
Tony Anthony Lloyd Battista |
| Music by | Stelvio Cipriani |
| Cinematography | Mario Capriotti |
| Edited by | Renzo Lucidi |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
Release dates | 20 June 1975 |
Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country |
Italy United States Japan |
| Language |
English Japanese |
The Silent Stranger (Italian: Lo straniero di silenzio), also known as The Horseman and the Samurai and The Stranger in Japan, is a 1968 Italian-American-Japanese Spaghetti Western chanbara film directed by Luigi Vanzi. It is the second sequel to A Stranger in Town with twenty minutes excised.
The film is the third in a series of four western films starring Tony Anthony as "The Stranger". Despite being produced in 1968 for MGM, the film was never given an official release until 1975, nearly a decade after the previous film in the series.[1] Tony Anthony stated that he believed the film became the victim of a power struggle at MGM[2] and when it was later releasead by a different studio the film was re-edited.[3]
Cast
- Tony Anthony - The Stranger
- Lloyd Battista - The American
- Kin Ōmae - Motori
- Kanji Ohara
- Kyōichi Satō
- Yoshio Nukano
- Raf Baldassare - White-Eye (uncredited)
- Gaetano Scala - Thief (uncredited)
- William Conroy - Gunman (uncredited)
- Rita Maura - The Princess (uncredited)
Reception
Paul Mavis, of DVDTalk, reviewing the Warner Archive Collection 2015 DVD release of The Stranger Collection, wrote, "While they're not in the league of Leone (what is?), Anthony's grimy, sneaky little punk killer is an intriguing addition to the genre. Tony Anthony did some very interesting things with the spaghetti Western genre, including, perhaps, presaging the Trinity movies, while certainly "inventing" the West-meets-East subgenre."[4]
References
- ↑ Marco Giusti. Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. pp. 157–158. ISBN 88-04-57277-9.
- ↑ https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/The_Silent_Stranger_%E2%80%93_The_Full_Story
- ↑ https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/The_Silent_Stranger_%E2%80%93_The_Full_Story
- ↑ Paul Mavis (May 6, 2015). "The Stranger Trilogy (Warner Archive Collection: A Stranger in Town, The Stranger Returns, The Silent Stranger)". DVDTalk. Retrieved 31 October 2015.