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A Man Called Blade

Year:
Duration:
Brazil:101 min
Genres:
Action | Drama | Thriller | Western
IMDB rate:
6.7
Director:
Sergio Martino
Details
Country: Italy
Release Date: 1977-08-13
Filming Locations: Elios Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Cast
Actor
Character
Maurizio Merli
Mannaja
John Steiner
Valler
Donald O'Brien
Burt Craven
Salvatore Puntillo
Johnny Johnny - the impresario
Antonio Casale
Dorman - bandits' head (as Nino Casale)
Enzo Fiermonte
The government Envoy
Rik Battaglia
Gerald Merton - Mannaja's father (as Rick Battaglia)
Aldo Rendine
The Fat Passenger in the Stagecoach
Sergio Tardioli
The Saloon Barman
Sofia Lombardo
Mannaja's Mother (as Sophia Lombardo)
Philippe Leroy
McGowan
Martine Brochard
Angela
Enzo Maggio
Nick Alexander
Dorman - Bandits' Head (voice: English version) (uncredited)
Domenico Cianfriglia
Valler's Man (uncredited)
Alberto Dell'Acqua
Valler's Man (uncredited)
Ottaviano Dell'Acqua
Rioting Miner (uncredited)
Bruno Di Luia
Stagecoach Guard (uncredited)
Michael Forest
Blade
Nello Pazzafini
Valler's Man (uncredited)
Riccardo Petrazzi
Valler's Man (uncredited)
Claudio Ruffini
Valler's Man with Whip (uncredited)
Franco Ukmar
Valler's Man (uncredited)
Frank von Kuegelgen
Valler's Man (voice: English version) (uncredited)
José Yepes
Valler's Man (uncredited)
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Trivia
The reason the exteriors have so much fog and smoke was because the filmmakers were trying to hide the fact that the studio, Elios Studio near Rome, needed to be renovated.
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John Steiner was afraid of horses, so Sergio Martino had him stand on wooden planks while shooting him closeup so it looked as if he were riding a horse.
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John Steiner was cast as the antagonist Voller because he had the face of a villain.
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Faq
Q
How much violence, sex and profanity in this film?
A
The film has gunfights and fistfights. The violence in the film is strong, brutal, graphic. A man has his hand cut off with a hatchet. A brutal fistfight in the mud between the lead character, the villain and his men. The lead character brutally attacks the villain's dog's with his hatchet. The lead character is injured in a rockfall and later tortured, leaving him blind. Some characters are killed with hatchets in the forehead and in the chest. A woman is stabbed in the gut and killed. There is very little sexual content. The character of Angela, Blade's love interest, is a prostitute and her bare back is exposed, when she is whipped in the back. Profanity is mild with SOB and B words.
Q
Is the 1998 Wesley Snipes film Blade a remake of Mannaja?
A
No. In the 1998 film, which is a action horror film, based on a Marvel comic book. Blade (Wesley Snipes) is a vigilante vampire hunter, whom hunts down Vampires, after a vampire attacked his mother Vanessa Brooks whilst she was pregnant, which caused Blade to genetically mutate at birth, making him half Vampire and Blade's mother died giving birth to him. Mannaja is a western. Blade is a bounty hunter, whose father Gerald Merton was killed when he was a boy. Both Blades are hunters, Blade (Snipes) hunts down Vampires, to seek vengeance upon the Vampires, for the death of his mother and Blade (Merli) is a bounty hunter, whom captures or kills outlaws, with dead or alive bounties on their heads. Blade (Snipes) uses a samurai sword and Blade (Merli) uses a hatchet. Both characters have lost a parent. Blade (Snipes) lost his mother and Blade (Merli) lost his father.
Q
Why did Burt Craven betray Blade?
A
Burt Craven, a wanted outlaw, had been captured by Blade and Blade chopped off Burt Craven's hand with his hatchet (later replaced by a steel hook), but he set Craven free after, after a little shootout with Voller's men. Obviously, Craven wanted to get back at Blade for chopping his hand off. After rescuing Blade and nursing him back to health in a cave. Burt returned to Suttonville and at the bar, he told a female customer about how he lost his hand and offered Voller, to lead his men to the cave and kill Blade and be paid in return. Unaware, Blade had deceived Craven and he knew he was lying to him and he would ride back with Voller's men to kill him and Blade, made new hatchets, to fight off Voller's men.
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