Black Jack (Italian: Black Jack - Un uomo per 5 vendette) is a 1968 Italian-Israeli Spaghetti Western film co-written and directed by Gianfranco Baldanello and starring Robert Woods.
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Cast
Robert Woods as Jack Murphy aka 'Black Jack'
Lucienne Bridou as Susan
Rik Battaglia as Skinner
Mimmo Palmara as Indian Joe
Nino Fuscagni as Peter
Larry Dolgin as Reb
Federico Chentrens as Gordon
Dalia Lahav as Julie Skinner
Production
The film was shot back to back with Domenico Paolella's Execution, with whom it shares the producers, the actors Mimmo Palmara and Dalia Lahav, and the composer Lallo Gori. It was mainly shot at the Desert Studios in Israel, with some parts filmed in Rome, in Cinecittà, Elios Studios and Ostia Antica.
Reception
Italian film critic Marco Giusti described the film as "very strange, very violent and very dark, [...] shot in a very modern, fast-paced way, [...] excellent, full of inventive". According to critic Alberto Pezzotta, it is a well-made film that has as its only flaw the "alternation of too many registers", that "especially takes a big risk with its melodramatic ending".