The Mercenary / A Professional Gun / Il mercenario (1968)
Il mercenario / The Mercenary / A Professional Gun (1968)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL |
Audio: #1 English AC3 2.0 @ 256 Kbps, #2 Italian AC3 2.0 @ 256 Kbps, #3 French AC3 2.0 @ 256 Kbps | Subtitles: French
01:41:00 | Italy, Spain | Comedy, Western
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL |
Audio: #1 English AC3 2.0 @ 256 Kbps, #2 Italian AC3 2.0 @ 256 Kbps, #3 French AC3 2.0 @ 256 Kbps | Subtitles: French
01:41:00 | Italy, Spain | Comedy, Western
Mexico, 1910, a mercenary called "The Polish" sells his services to Paco Roman, a self-proclaimed revolutionary to make him the leader of the revolution. But both are soon hunted by another mercenary called "Curly", hired by the government to put an end to the revolution.
The Mercenary / A Professional Gun / Il mercenario (1968)
The Mercenary / A Professional Gun / Il mercenario (1968)
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Cast: Franco Nero, Jack Palance, Tony Musante, Giovanna Ralli, Eduardo Fajardo, Lorenzo Robledo, Alvaro de Luna, Raf Baldassarre, Vicente Roca, Jose Canalejas, Franco Ressel, Guillermo Mendez, Enrique Navarro, Simon Arriaga, Ugo Adinolfi, Jose I. Zaldua, Francisco Nieto, A. Jimenez Castellanos, Tito Garcia, Franco Giacobini, Jose Riesgo, Julio Pena, Angel Alvarez, Jose Maria Aguinaco, Juan Cazalilla, Remo De Angelis, Alejandro de Enciso, Angel Ortiz, Milo Quesada, Herman Reynoso
Extras:
- Film presentation by Jean-Francois Gire (French audio only)
- Photo Gallery
- Filmography
- Trailers
The Mercenary / A Professional Gun / Il mercenario (1968)
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Paco Roman (Musante), a Mexican peasant, rebels against his rich boss and humiliates him. He is later captured, but saved from a certain death by his friends. Meanwhile, Sergei Kowalski (Nero), a Polish mercenary, arrives in Mexico and makes a deal with two Garcia brothers to take their silver safely across the border. Curly (Palance) sees the three men talking and tracks down the brothers to find out what they hired Kowalski for, after which Curly kills the two.
When Kowalski arrives at a mine to meet one of the Garcia brothers, he finds the man along with many others dead and meets Paco and his revolutionaries instead. Soon after, Colonel Alfonso Garcia's (Eduardo Fajardo) Mexican army troops attack. Kowalski agrees to help Paco fight them, but only for money as he is a professional soldier. With the help of Kowalski and his machine gun, the revolutionaries defeat the army. Kowalski then leaves the group, but gets ambushed by Curly. Soon Paco's group arrives and kills Curly's men. Although Curly swears to revenge, they let him go after stripping him of his clothes. Paco then hires Kowalski to teach him how to lead a revolution.
The revolutionaries travel from town to town robbing money, guns and horses from the army. They also release a prisoner named Columba (Ralli) and she joins the group. After Paco stays in one town to protect the people despite Kowalski telling him that they can not match the army sent to capture them, Kowalski leaves the group again. Paco and his men later admit their defeat and go after Kowalski. Kowalski's price has doubled now, but the two make another deal. After the revolutionaries take over a town by defeating a whole regiment, Paco takes Kowalski as prisoner for being too greedy, confiscates all the money he has paid him and marries Columba. When General Garcia's army, along with Curly, attack them, Paco realizes he can not manage the situation on his own and decides to set Kowalski free, but ends up locked up himself while Kowalski escapes. Columba frees Paco and the two also manage to escape before Curly finds them.
After six months, Kowalski attends a circus performance and notices that Paco managed to get away after all, as he is one of the clowns. After the performance is over, Curly enters the arena and his men capture Paco. Kowalski then shoots Curly's men and gives him and Paco both a rifle and a bullet, so that the two can have a fair duel. After Paco kills Curly, Kowalski takes him as a prisoner and heads to the headquarters of the 51st Regiment to collect the reward offered for his head. Columba sees this, manages to get before them to the headquarters and then pretends that she wants to betray Paco by telling where the two are.
When the army troops find the pair, Kowalski also finds himself arrested as there is now even a bigger reward for his head. The two are then sentenced to death by firing squad. However, Columba now executes her plan and with the help of two machine guns, Paco, Kowalski and Columba manage to escape. Kowalski suggests Paco that they team up to make a lot of money, but Paco claims that his dream is in Mexico referring to the revolution. The two part ways, and we see Garcia and four soldiers about to ambush Paco. Kowalski cuts them all down with his rifle from a nearby hillside, and then yells to Paco to "keep dreaming, but with your eyes open."
The Mercenary / A Professional Gun / Il mercenario (1968)
The Mercenary / A Professional Gun / Il mercenario (1968)
