20.000 dólares por un cadaver
From The Spaghetti Western Database
20,000 dólares por un cadáver (Spain 1970 / Director: José María Zabalza)
This is a Eurowestern
Also known as
Veinte mil dólares por un cadáver (Spain) | Ehi! Gringo … scendi dalla croce (Italy, poster) | Hei! Gringo.... scendi dalla croce (Italy, credits) | 20.000 dollars pour un cadavre (France) | 20.000 Dólares Por Um Cadáver (Brazil) | Twenty Thousand Dollars for Every Corpse | 20.000 Dollars for the Dead Man (Spanish press kit)- DVD
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Synopsis
The wagon transport company is trying to stop the progress of the railroad, but when the leader of the outlaw gang in charge of the disruptions is shot in a farm home invasion, a new leader must be found. The farmer decides to collect the reward for the outlaw and complications abound.
Credits
- Cast (Spanish credits): Miguel de la Riva [as Michael Rivers] (Dale/Bruce Brice), Dyanik Zurakowska [as Dianik Zurakowska] (Helen/Dolly Brice), José Truchado (Ralston), Guillermo Méndez (sheriff), Fernando Sánchez Polack [as F. S. Polack] (Red Burkett, outlaw), José Marco [as Jose Marcos] (Raleigh, barber), Enrique Navarro (merchant), Juan Cortés (railroad rep), Javier Rivera (railroad superintendent), César García (Darby, Raleigh partner), Ricardo Costa (Matt, saloon outlaw), Ramón Lillo (outlaw)
- Uncredited actors: Manuel Rojas (railroad attack instigator), Antonio Orengo, (store employee), José María Zabalza (dental patient)
- Italian cast credits (all pseudonyms): Michael Rivers, Barbara Carson, Luis Hoover, Arthur Sullivan, Katy Keller, Max Green, Frank Steimberg [sic], Elizabeth Rush, Henry Hoover, Max Cort, Al Rivers, Francis Garcia, Richard Stock, Ray Hill
- Director: José María Zabalza [as Peter Harrison (Italian credits)]
- Story, screenplay: José María Zabalza [as Peter Harrison (Italian credits)]
- Cinematography: Leopoldo Villaseñor [as Leopold Masterville (Italian credits)] [Eastmancolor – Techniscope 2,35:1]
- Music: Ana Satrova [Italian credits: Andres Novolty]
- Producers: H. Santaballa Valdés [as Rudy Walsh (Italian credits)], Rafael Durán [as Ralph Durand (Italian credits)]
Trivia
- One of three Westerns director Zabalza shot simultaneously in 1969; the other two were Los rebeldes de Arizona and Plomo sobre Dallas. In an interview with Nuevo Fotogramas magazine in September 1969, he boasted: “I shot all three in seven weeks, including Sundays and holidays, which makes it actually six weeks. You really don’t have to have any respect for cinema.” (“He rodado las tres en siete semanas, sin descontar domingos y fiestas, lo que las deja convertidas en seis. De verdad que no hay que tener ningún respeto al cine.” [1092, p. 6])
- The Spanish press kit for 20.000 dólares por un cadáver suggested as a possible tagline: “Sus vidas se valoraban por gramos: el peso de las balas que las extinguirían.” (“Their lives were measured in grams: the weight of the bullets that would kill them.”)
Versions and runtimes
- Runtime: approx. 81 min
Release dates
- May 2, 1970 (Spain)
Filming locations
- Province of Madrid, Spain: Patones, Colmenar Viejo, Aldea del Fresno, Villamanta, Hoyo de Manzanares, Torremocha
- Province of Toledo, Spain: Seseña
Production and business
- Spain: box office / gross: €62,201.92; admissions: 563,719
External links
- Review by 800 SW (Spanish)
- Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales: Catálogo de Cine Español (English/Spanish)
- El extraño vicio del doctor Hichcock (Spanish)
- Dereparto.carloslucas (Spanish)
- Western Maniac : western européen et cinéma de genre (French)
- Mon nom est Personne : les images du western spaghetti (French)