When one considers the Eurowestern, the exploitative elements that immediately come to mind are bloody, sadistic violence and revenge. There is of course the generous amount of cleavage on display with the saloon girls and prostitutes, and they occasionally prance around in frilly undies, bodices or tight, laced corsets, and when the women get slapped around, (and they do get slapped around), whipped, raped or generally abused, a shoulder might be bared, a naked back show or a blouse partially torn revealing a glimpse of rounded breasts, but actual nudity is not something one immediately expects in a Eurowestern. Strange? Well, taking into consideration that gialli, eurohorror and poliziesci are all brimming with nudity and eroticism, and while the post-Leone brutality and violence give the eurowestern a considerably more mature label than, say, the sword and sandal epics, shouldn’t there be more naked flesh on display here?
Well, actually there is, and this is what I am going to look into in a series of recurring posts. There are, of course, the more obvious examples like Ferdinando Baldi’s Blindman (1971) or Carlo Croccolo’s Black Killer (1970), yet some flesh is occasionally revealed in lesser known examples since the late 1960s.
Wonderful 1960s and 1970s magazines like Continental, Cinema X, Playcinema and Stars System provide us with wonderful insight here. As these magazines, in their survey of the European film of the times, focus heavily on the erotic aspects of/and nudity in the movies they reviewed, it is not surprising that the occasional eurowestern appears among their articles.So, here are the first few,
I lunghi giorni della vendetta, fairly typical revenge western, directed in 1967 by Florestano Vancini (written by Fernando di Leo) which has Ted Barnett (Giuliano Gemma) escaping from prison to exact bloody vengeance on those who wronged him. With Gabriella Giorgelli as Dulcie and Nieves Navarro as Dolly. Also known as: "Days of Vengeance" - "Long Days of Vengeance" - "The Deadliest Gunfight" - "Vendetta".
T'ammazzo! - Raccomandati a Dio, a 1968 western directed by Osvaldo Civirani, featuring George Hilton, Gordon Mitchell and the lovely starlets, Sandra Milo, Monica Pardo and Carla Brait. Also known as, “I’ll Kill You and Commend You to god”, "Trusting Is Good... Shooting Is Better" – “Dead for a Dollar” – “Pour un Dollar Je Tire”.
Three gunmen and blonde bombshell, Liz, a thieving dressmaker intent on taking off with the money on her own (Tunesian beauty Sandra Milo) are hunting a fortune in loot stolen during the hold-up of Hartmann's Bank of . But soon the $200-thousand dollars go missing as they all try to outsmart and double cross each other.
Monica Pardo
The lovely Monica Pardo is also featured in Kommisar X - Drei Goldene Schalngen (1969), Sentenza di Morte (1968) and Histoires Extraordinaires (1968).
Joe... cercati un posto per morire!, a pretty raw and violent 1968 western directed by Giuliano Carmineo, in which an adventurous husband and wife, Paul and Lisa Martin discover a vein of gold in the treacherous regions of Mexico. They are set upon by bandits, and the husband is crippled and trapped inside the mine by a rockslide. Lisa (Pascale Petit) ventures into the sordid nearby town, Nido de Aguila, where she is met with a rabble of outlaws who show more interest in trying to rape the young woman than in helping her rescue her husband. An ambiguous American mercenary, Joe Collins (Jeffrey Hunter) agrees to help her for a share of the gold, putting together a gang of treacherous cutthroats. Also involved are a Mexican prostitute, Juanita (Daniela Giordano), and a lecherous, sadistic priest ...
Cute Kathia Kelly
Sartana non Perdona, another 1968 western directed by Alfonso Balcazar, in which bandits rape and murder a woman, with the typical revenge as result. With lovelies Diana Lorys and Rosalba Neri as a passenger who has her clothes ripped off. Also known as: “Sonora” - "Sartana Does Not Forgive" – USA
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