El Rojo (Spanish: Texas el Rojo) is a 1966 Italian-Spanish Spaghetti Western film co-written and directed by Leopoldo Savona and starring Richard Harrison.
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Cast
Richard Harrison as Donald 'El Rojo' Sorensen
Nieves Navarro as Consuelo
Piero Lulli as Lasky
Mirko Ellis as Navarro
Franco Ressel as Wallace
Andrea Aureli as Ortega
Raf Baldassarre as Ramon
Annie Gorassini as Flo
Rita Klein as Pamela
José Jaspe as José Garibaldi
Angelo Boscariol as Nero Burt
John Bartha as the Judge
Tom Felleghy as the Sheriff
Pietro Tordi as Saloon Customer
Production
According to the assistant director Gianfranco Baldanello, the film was started by veteran director Mario Costa, which was replaced by Savona after one week because of his on set fights with leading actor Richard Harrison. It was shot between Cinecittà and La Pedriza.
Reception
Rewieving the film, Italian critic Davide Pulici described the film as "a solid film built on a traditional structure", but categorized it among the "borderline" spaghetti westerns, because of the giallo structure and mystery elements, the strangeness of various characters and situations, and the inventiveness of the death scenes, particularly that of Mirko Ellis.