Cemetery Without Crosses

  • Western
1/25/1969
91

Her thirst for revenge made his guns shoot to kill

Ruthlessly pursued by the Rogers family following a dispute over cattle, Ben Caine (Benito Stefanelli) is chased back to the Caine Ranch. Despite his wife Maria's (Michèle Mercier) desperate pleading, the Rogers family hangs Ben Caine, forcing Maria to watch. Consumed with revenge but finding her two brothers-in-law reluctant to assist, Maria enlists the help of Manuel (Robert Hossein). Manual, presumably preoccupied with the past, wears a single black glove and lives alone in a ghost town. Manuel agrees to Maria's plan with reluctance, in part because of his deep feelings/attraction to her. Manuel finds employment as foreman at the Rogers' ranch and surreptitiously kidnaps Pa Rogers' (Daniele Vargas) only daughter Johanna (Anne-Marie Balin). With Johanna as the bait, Maria will be in the perfect position to exact her revenge on the Rogers but things don't turn out quite as planned.

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  • John Chard

    The Black Glove Man.

    Une corde, un Colt (AKA: Cemetery Without Crosses) is directed by Robert Hossein, who also stars and co-writes the screenplay with Dario Argento and Claude Desailly. Starring alongside Hossein are Michèle Mercier, Anne-Marie Balin, Daniele Vargas, Guido Lollobrigida and Serge Marquand. Music is by Andre Hossein and cinematography by Henri Persin.

    After being forced to watch the lynching of her husband by the ruthless Rogers family, Maria Caine (Mercier) asks her inept brothers-in-law for help in retribution. Getting no joy from the pair, she seeks outside help in the form of fast gun Manuel (Hossein), a loner living in solitude out at a ghost town...

    It's dedicated to Sergio Leone, who directs one of the best s...

    March 30, 2014

  • Wuchak

    Moody, serious, proficient but flat Spaghetti Western by Robert Hossein

    An ex-gunfighter living in a ghost town in the Southwest (Robert Hossein) decides to assist the wife (Michèle Mercier) of a friend that was unjustly lynched by the rough ruling family of the area, the Rogers.

    Cemetery without Crosses (1969) is a Euro Western (French / Italian / Spanish) originally titled A Rope a Colt (translated). Director/writer/star Robert Hossein was admittedly inspired by Sergio Leone and you can see the influence of For a Few Dollars More (1965). Speaking of which, one of the best scenes in the movie, the amusing dinner sequence at the Rogers ranch, was guest-directed by Sergio Leone.

    This is a competent Spaghetti Western with a...

    August 29, 2019

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