Sette pistole per i MacGregor (1966)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

Franco Giraldi

Writers:

Enzo Dell'Aquila (writer)
Fernando Di Leo (writer)

Release Date:

2 FEBRUÁR 1966 (Italy)

Genre:

Western

Plot:

Ranch owner MacGregor has seven sons and oldest Gregor leads his brothers to Las Mesas, a small town where they want to sell horses...

Plot Keywords:

Horse | Undercover | Cannon | Bank Robbery | Spaghetti Western

Cast

Robert Woods	...	Gregor MacGregor
Fernando Sancho	...	Miguel
Agata Flori	...	Rosita Carson
Nazzareno Zamperla	...	Peter MacGregor
Paolo Magalotti	...	Kenneth MacGregor
Leo Anchóriz	...	Santillana
Perla Cristal	...	Perla
George Rigaud	...	Alastair MacGregor (as Jorge Rigaud)
Manuel Zarzo	...	Manuel MacGregor
Alberto Dell'Acqua	...	Dick MacGregor (as Cole Kitosch)
Julio Pérez Tabernero	...	Mark MacGregor
Cris Huerta	...	Crawford
Massimo Righi		(as Max Dean)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Rafael Bardem	...	Justice Garland
Saturno Cerra	...	Johnny MacGregor
Pierre Cressoy		(as Peter Cross)
Margherita Horowitz	...	Annie MacGregor (as Margaret Horowitz)
Antonio Molino Rojo	...	Sheriff
Ana María Noé	...	Mamie MacGregor (as Anne-Marie Noé)
Jesús Puente
Francesco Tensi	...	Harold MacGregor (as Harry Cotton)

Also Known As:

Seven Guns for the MacGregors (UK)
Siete pistolas para los Mac Gregor (Spain)

Runtime:

107 min

Country:

Spain | Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Norway:16 | Finland:K-16

Filming Locations:

Colmenar Viejo, Madrid, Spain

Company:

Estela Films

Trivia:

The name "Buster Crab" is scrawled on the wall of a prison cell. This is an homage to American actor Buster Crabbe, who made many westerns in the 1940s and 1950s.

Quotes:

Santillana: [to Gregor MacGregor] So, you want to play games, do you? Do you know the one we've got called whip-the-truth-out-of-a-prisoner?

Movie Connections:

Featured in Città violenta (1970)

lame, chick flick spaghetti western

This movie has a couple of interesting moments, but mostly it just tries to be "cute," and that doesn't really make for a good spaghetti western. Having a great music score from the master Ennio Morricone can't even save this one from being a below average example.

The most notable spaghetti western regular in this film is Fernando Sancho, who is usually great to watch, but here his role is simply that of a crony, and he doesn't get to shine.

As for the MacGregors, the senior members of the clan are gritty, tough old Scots, and I kind of liked them, but you don't really see that much of them in the film. The story focuses on the sons, who are so ridiculously happy-go-lucky it makes you sick. It's like watching a gang of seven Peter Pans, and they act like puppy dogs every time they see a pretty girl. In reality, these guys wouldn't survive very long in a brutal cutthroat western environment, yet somehow they do. The movie is also part love story, of course.

The most notable part of the film is an especially brutal scene where a guy is repeatedly dragged through a fire.

This one's kind of lame, and not really worth seeking out when there are so many better eurowesterns to choose from.