100.000 dollari per Ringo

{{Infobox film

| name = 100.000 Dollari per Ringo

| image = 10000DollarsForRingo.jpg

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| caption = Theatrical release poster

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| director = Alberto De Martino

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| screenplay = {{plainlist|* Alberto De Martino

Giovanni Simonelli
Vincenzo Flamini
Alfonso Balcázar{{cite web|url=http://www.archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it/index.php/scheda.html?codice=AG1654|publisher=Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it|title=Sangre sobre Texas [100.000 dollari per Ringo] (1965)|access-date=11 July 2018|language=Italian}}}}

| story = {{plainlist|* Alberto De Martino

Giovanni Simonelli
Vincenzo Flamini
Alfonso Balcazar}}

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| starring =

| narrator =

| music = Bruno Nicolai

| cinematography = Federico Gutierrez Larraya

| editing = Teresa Alcocer

| production_companies = {{plainlist|* Fida Cinematografica di Amati Edmondo

P.C. Balcázar, Barcelona}}

| distributor = Fida Cinematografica

| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1965|11||Italy|1966|7||Spain}}

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Italy
Spain{{r|Weisser|p=233}}

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100.000 dollari per Ringo (or Centomilla dollari per Ringo) is a 1965 spaghetti Western film directed by Alberto De Martino.

It was shown as part of a retrospective on Spaghetti Western at the 64^th Venice International Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/program/en/14364.html |title=64th Venice Film Festival – Secret History of Italian Cinema 4 |work=labiennale.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071003025130/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/program/en/14364.html |archive-date=3 October 2007 |df=dmy}}

Plot

Lee Barton arrives in Rainbow Valley as a stranger. The townspeople mistake him for Ward Cluster, a former resident thought to have died in the Civil War. They believe Barton has come to seek revenge against the Cherry brothers, who are responsible for the death of his wife. Even Cluster's son, Sean, raised by an Indian chief named Gray Bear, thinks Barton is his father.

Tom Cherry, the most troublesome of the three brothers, is involved in dealings with the Mexican army. He is romantically interested in Deborah, a local woman married to Ive, a local drunk with a questionable reputation.

Tom is on a quest for $100,000 hidden by a Mexican general. At one point, he captures and whips Barton. Eventually, Tom kills both Deborah and Ive.

Barton teams up with a wandering sheriff from Tucson and, in a final shoot-out, kills Tom. Barton discovers the hidden money and envisions a future with Sean.

Cast

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Richard Harrison as Lee 'Ringo' Barton
Fernando Sancho as Chuck
Luis Induni as Sheriff
Gérard Tichy as Tom Sherry
John Barracuda
Aurora Julia
{{ill|Eleonora Bianchi|it|Eleonora Bianchi}} as Deborah
{{ill|Loris Loddi|it|Loris Loddi}} as Sean (the boy)
Lee Burton as Luke Sherry
Michel Montfort
Paco Sanz as Jose
Tomás Torres as General mejicano (Mexican general)
Rafael Albaicín as Oso gris (gray bear)
César Ojinaga as Sargento (sergeant)
Frank Oliveras as Indio (Indian)
Pedro Rodríguez de Quevedo
Fernando Rubio
Víctor Vilanova

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Release

100.000 dollari per Ringo was released in Italy in November 1965 and in Spain in July 1966.{{Cite AV media notes

| title =The Complete Sartana

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| year = 2018

| chapter = Westerns, Italian Style: Once Upon a Timeline

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| last = Hughes

| first = Howard

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| page = 34

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| type = Booklet

| publisher = Arrow Video

| id =FCD1762 / AV151

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}} Thomas Weisser commented that the film was relatively unknown in the United States, but that the film was one of Richard Harrison's greatest international box office hits.{{Cite book |last=Weisser |first=Thomas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s4gOAwAAQBAJ |title=Spaghetti Westerns--the Good, the Bad and the Violent: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography of 558 Eurowesterns and Their Personnel, 1961-1977 |date=2014-03-11 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-1169-3 |language=en}}{{rp|233}}

Box office

The film was one of the most successful Spaghetti Westerns of 1965, being one of only six to gross more than 1,236,276,000 Lira that year; and is the 32^nd highest grossing of all time.{{Cite book |last=Fisher |first=Austin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CaWmDwAAQBAJ |title=Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western: Politics, Violence and Popular Italian Cinema |date=2014-02-06 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-0-85773-770-0 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Fridlund |first=Bert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nNAdBgAAQBAJ |title=The Spaghetti Western: A Thematic Analysis |date=2014-12-24 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0809-9 |language=en}}