Spaghetti Western Question???!
Question: There's been several knock-off spaghetti western, which featured the character of Sabata, but there were only three entries in the official series; now, I could have sworn that actor Lee Van Cleef starred in all three entries, but for the life of me, I can only find two titles, featuring Cleef, namely 1969's "Sabata" and 1971's "Return of Sabata". Is it just my imagination, or didn't he actually do another one???
Answers: There's been several knock-off spaghetti western, which featured the character of Sabata, but there were only three entries in the official series; now, I could have sworn that actor Lee Van Cleef starred in all three entries, but for the life of me, I can only find two titles, featuring Cleef, namely 1969's "Sabata" and 1971's "Return of Sabata". Is it just my imagination, or didn't he actually do another one???
...actually, there WAS a third entry, which fell in between the two you mentioned, and called "Adios, Sabata"; in that film, Yul Brenner was cast as the mysterious gunslinger...
Looks like Yul Brynner did the last one: "Adios Sabata" in 1971.
No. You mean "Adios Sabata", the second film in the "Sabata Trilogy". but it starred Yul Brynner. Van Cleef was back for the third film.
Here is what one website says about the second film:
Adiós Sabata (Italian: Indio Black, sai che ti dico: Sei un gran figlio di ..., roughly translated as "Indio Black, you know what I'm going to tell you ... You're a big son of a ....") is a 1971 Spaghetti Western film directed by Gianfranco Parolini. It is the second film in The Sabata Trilogy by Parolini. Yul Brynner takes over the lead role from Lee Van Cleef, who stars in the first and third films.
The film was originally going to be entitled Indio Black, but the title was changed after the first Sabata film proved successful and had inspired many imitators. Ironically, Van Cleef had been offered the starring role in the film, but had to decline because he was committed to The Magnificent Seven Ride in the role of Chris Adams, which Brynner had made famous in The Magnificent Seven.