Texas, Adios

Texas, Adios (1966)

Texas, Addio

A Texan sheriff and his younger brother travel across the border into Mexico to confront the man who killed their father.

Date of release
1966-08-28
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (45)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Western, Action
Director
Ferdinando Baldi

Casting

Interesting facts

Texas, Adios is a 1966 Italian-Spanish spaghetti Western film co-written and directed by Ferdinando Baldi and starring Franco Nero, Alberto Dell'Acqua, José Suárez and Elisa Montés.

Production

Texas, Adios was the second film in a planned three-picture contract between star Franco Nero and Manolo Bolognini's B.R.C. Produzione Film of Rome, after the highly influential Django. It was co-produced with Estela Films of Madrid, a joint venture between Eduardo Manzanos Brochero and Jorge Tusell which partnered on other notable Westerns of the era like Seven Guns for the MacGregors.

According to film historian Marco Giusti, making the film a Django sequel was considered. It was offered to Django helmer Sergio Corbucci, who turned it down. A young Ruggero Deodato, who had been Corbucci's assistant on Navajo Joe and Django, saw the project as a potential career booster and lobbied hard to direct it, but Bolognini ultimately chose Ferdinando Baldi, who was a friend of his.

The film was shot in April and May 1966. Baldi was a quick, no-frills craftsman, forcing producer Bolognini to stay on set and order more takes, as he feared the director would miss some technical details that were crucial to the Western genre. Renzo Rosselini was asked by Baldi to be his assistant; he accepted as a friendly gesture and for the fun of working on a Western.

The shoot took place in Spain and Italy. Spanish locations encompassed various locations in the Community of Madrid and the Tabernas Desert in the province of Almería. Nero sometimes socialized with Clint Eastwood, who was shooting The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Almería, and several supporting actors (Lorenzon, Pistilli, Bacci) appeared in both films. A few more locations were found in the vicinity of Rome.

Immediately after wrapping up his part, Nero moved on to Camelot. Some of the principals did not provide their own voice, even in their native language, a common occurrence in European genre films at the time. Nero and Dell'Acqua were respectively voiced in Italian by Enrico Maria Salerno and it:Massimo Turci, and Montés was voiced in Spanish by Lola Cervantes. Suárez did voice himself in Spanish.

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