1965 · spaghetti western · drama · revenge
The Return of Ringo
Directed by Duccio Tessari1h 35m1965
Once again billed as Montgomery Wood, Giuliano Gemma plays a civil war soldier who returns to his family land to find his family decimated, his property taken over by a family of Mexican bandits and his fiancee about to marry the Mexican gangster behind all this. Bent on revenge, he goes undercover disguised as a Mexican and discovers he has a daughter!
Our read: The Return of Ringo (1965) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded spaghetti western · drama · revenge entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured spaghetti western / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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