The Price of Power

The Price of Power (1969)

Il prezzo del potere

Face the gallows... or Jordan's gun

In 1881 Dallas, an ex-Union soldier attempts to expose a conspiracy of Southerners that killed his father, his friend and President James A. Garfield.

Date of release
1969-12-18
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (39)
Runtime
1h 52m
Genres
Western
Director
Tonino Valerii

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Almería

The Price of Power is a 1969 Spaghetti Western directed by Tonino Valerii and starring Giuliano Gemma. The film's plot is set against the backdrop of the assassination of president James Garfield.

Production

The film's concept was conceived by Massimo Patrizi, Luigi Comencini's brother-in-law, and serves as an adaptation of the story of John F. Kennedy's assassination in the form of a Western. Patrizi also imposed another true story in his script, the murder of James A. Garfield in 1881. Garfield is played by Van Johnson, with José Suárez playing Vice President Chester A. Arthur.

Although the opening titles of the film credit the story and screenplay only to Patrizi, the film was rewritten by Valerii and Ernesto Gastaldi. Valerii commented that he did not remember Patrizi's script word-for-word, but described it as "extremely basic, whereas Gastaldi and I deepened it.

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