The Return of Ringo

Il ritorno di Ringo
Theatrical poster
Directed by Duccio Tessari
Produced by Luciano Ercoli
Alberto Pugliese
Screenplay by Duccio Tessari
Fernando Di Leo
Uncredited:
Alfonso Balcázar[1]
Based on Odyssey
by Homer
(uncredited)
Starring Giuliano Gemma
Fernando Sancho
Hally Hammond
Nieves Navarro
Antonio Casas
Manuel Muñiz
George Martin
Music by Ennio Morricone
Cinematography Francisco Marín
Edited by Licia Quaglia
Production
company
Produzioni Cinematografiche Mediterranee (PCM)
Rizzoli Film
Balcázar Producciones Cinematográficas
Distributed by Cineriz (Italy)
Release date
 8 December 1965 (Italy)
Running time
 95 minutes
Country Italy
Spain
Language Italian

The Return of Ringo (Italian: Il ritorno di Ringo) is a 1965 Italian spaghetti western film directed by Duccio Tessari and the sequel to the earlier film A Pistol for Ringo.[2]

Like its predecessor, the film stars Giuliano Gemma and features a score composed by Ennio Morricone. The film's story is a loose retelling of Homer's Odyssey.

Plot

After fighting for the Union Army in the American Civil War, Ringo returns home to find that his property has been taken over by a family of Mexican bandits. His fiancée is about to marry the Mexican gangster behind all this. He decides to go undercover disguised as a Mexican. While there he discovers he has a daughter.

Cast

  • Giuliano Gemma as Captain Montgomery "Ringo" Brown (as Montgomery Wood)
  • Fernando Sancho as Esteban Fuentes
  • Hally Hammond as Hally Fitzgerald Brown
  • Nieves Navarro as Rosita
  • Antonio Casas as Sheriff Carson
  • George Martin as Paco Fuentes
  • Manuel Muñiz (as Pajarito) as Miosotis (Morning Glory)
  • Tunet Vila as Mimbreno, the Apache medicine man
  • Víctor Bayo as Jeremiah Pitt, the Saloon owner
  • Mónica Sugranes as Elizabeth Brown

Music

Il ritorno di Ringo
Soundtrack album by Ennio Morricone
Released 1965 (Original album)
Genre Soundtrack
Label RCA Italiana
Ennio Morricone chronology
Idoli controluce
(1965)Idoli controluce1965		 Il ritorno di Ringo
(1965)		 Seven Guns for the MacGregors
(1966)Seven Guns for the MacGregors1966

All music by Ennio Morricone.

  1. "Il ritorno di Ringo – Main Titles" – 2:16 (Lyrics and vocals by Maurizio Graf)
  2. "The Disguise" – 2:23
  3. "Mariachi #1" – 1:51
  4. "Violence" – 5:54
  5. "Sheriff Carson" – 1:20
  6. "The Fuentes" – 1:08
  7. "Mariachi #2" – 2:03
  8. "Main Titles Instrumental" – 1:26
  9. "Barnaba's Bamba" – 2:34
  10. "The Wedding and The Revenge" – 1:28
  11. "The Funeral" – 2:03
  12. "Peace Comes Back in Mimbres" – 2:20

Reception

From contemporary reviews, the Monthly Film Bulletin that the films story is "treated with an imagination unequaled in other Italian Westerns." The review continued that "what makes the film more than merely clever is the handing of its theme: as in the second half of The Odyssey, the hero-treated by all as dead-has to rediscover his identity." The review during the films climax and ending "Tessari shiningly confirms his sense of the poetic."[3] "Hawk." of Variety described the film as "fair-to-middlin'" noting the cliches the film had, but that Tessari "keeps things lively, alternating action alternating action and humor" while noting the violence in the film "bordered on sadism."[4] "Hawk." found the film to be superior to A Pistol for Ringo.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Cox, Alex (2009). 10,000 Ways to Die: A Director's Take on the Spaghetti Western. Oldcastle Books. ISBN 978-1842433041.
  2. ↑ The New York Times
  3. ↑ "Return of Ringo, The "(Il Ritorno di Ringo)"". Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 37 no. 432. British Film Institute. 1970. p. 252.
  4. 1 2 Variety's Film Reviews 1964-1967. 11. R. R. Bowker. 1983. There are no page numbers in this book. This entry is found under the header "February 2, 1966". ISBN 0-8352-2790-1.


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