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Johnny Hamlet is a italien film of genre Western directed by Enzo G. Castellari with Andrea Giordana

Johnny Hamlet (1968)

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Quella sporca storia nel West (literally translated as That Dirty Story in the West; internationally released as Johnny Hamlet, The Wild and the Dirty and To Kill or Not to Kill?) is a 1968 Italian film directed by Enzo G. Castellari. The film is a spaghetti western version of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet.



^ Marco Giusti. Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. ISBN 88-04-57277-9.

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Retournant dans son village à la fin de la guerre de Sécession, Johnny Hamilton (Django dans la version française) découvre sa mère Gertry dans les bras de son oncle, Claude Hamilton. Confirmant ses rêves prémonitoires, Johnny apprend que son père a été tué par Santana, un bandit mexicain. Sa mère, réconfortée par Claude, a fini par l'épouser. Ce dernier prétend avoir vengé son frère et éliminé Santana. Mais Johnny cherchera par tous les moyens à découvrir la vérité aidé dans sa tâche par son fidèle ami Horace.

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