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(Redirected from Lo straniero di silenzio) 1968 film by Vance Lewis For the silent film, see The Silent Stranger (1924 film).
The Silent Stranger
Theatrical release poster
Directed byVance Lewis
Screenplay byVincenzo Cerami
Giancarlo Ferrando
Story byTony Anthony
Produced byTony Anthony
Allen Klein
StarringTony Anthony
Lloyd Battista
CinematographyMario Capriotti
Edited byRenzo Lucidi
Music byStelvio Cipriani
Production
companies		Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
ABKCO Industries
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • 20 June 1975 (1975-06-20)
Running time92 minutes
CountriesItaly
United States
Japan
LanguagesItalian
English
Japanese

The Silent Stranger (Italian: Lo straniero di silenzio), also known as The Horseman and the Samurai and The Stranger in Japan, is a 1968 Spaghetti Western jidaigeki film directed by Luigi Vanzi. It is the second sequel to A Stranger in Town, with twenty minutes excised for its 1975 release. The film is the third in a series of four western films starring Tony Anthony as "The Stranger". Despite being produced in 1968 for MGM, the film was never given an official release until 1975, nearly a decade after the previous film in the series. Tony Anthony stated that he believed the film became the victim of a power struggle at MGM, and the film was re-edited when it was later released by a different studio.

Plot

The protagonist, a likeable American cowboy (Antony) in Edo-period 19th-Century Japan, becomes trapped in the middle of the strife between two feuding aristocratic Japanese families. The cowboy possesses a priceless scroll, acquired by chance while he was in Alaska, which both warring families want. Violent fighting ensues, involving Samuri swords, a Gatling gun, and a makeshift single-shot blunderbuss. In the end the cowboy returns the scroll (worth "one million dollars") to The Princess, a member of the family who are the rightful owners.

Cast

  • Tony Anthony as The Stranger
  • Lloyd Battista as The American
  • Kin Ōmae as Lord Motori
  • Kanji Ohara as Koeta
  • Kita Maura as Princess Otaka
  • Kyōichi Satō as Koeta's Henchman
  • Yoshio Nukano as Motori Samurai
  • Raf Baldassarre as White-Eye (uncredited)
  • Gaetano Scala as Thief in Klondike (uncredited)
  • William Conroy as Thief in Klondike (uncredited)

Reception

Paul Mavis, of DVDTalk, reviewing the 2015 Warner Archive Collection DVD release of The Stranger Collection, wrote, "While they're not in the league of Leone (what is?), Anthony's grimy, sneaky little punk killer is an intriguing addition to the genre. Tony Anthony did some very interesting things with the spaghetti Western genre, including, perhaps, presaging the Trinity movies, while certainly "inventing" the West-meets-East subgenre".

References

  1. Marco Giusti (2007). Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. pp. 157–158. ISBN 978-88-04-57277-0.
  2. ^ The SWDb. "The Silent Stranger – The Full Story - The Spaghetti Western Database". Spaghetti-western.net. Retrieved 2021-06-14.
  3. Paul Mavis (May 6, 2015). "The Stranger Trilogy (Warner Archive Collection: A Stranger in Town, The Stranger Returns, The Silent Stranger)". DVDTalk. Retrieved 31 October 2015.

External links

The Stranger series
Films by Tony Anthony
Films written
As producer
Luigi Vanzi
Films directed
Associated people


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