The Sheriff (1959 film)

La sceriffa
La sceriffa
Directed by	Roberto Bianchi Montero
Written by	Mario Amendola
Produced by	Guido Paolucci
Cinematography	Sergio Pesce
Edited by	Ettore Salvi
Release date	16 August 1959
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

La sceriffa (The Sheriff) is a 1959 Italian Western comedy in black-and-white, directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero.^[1] It stars Italian comedy star Ugo Tognazzi. It was released on 16 August 1959. The film starred several comedians and spawned a number of western comedies which followed.^[2]

Plot

A sheriff is killed and his widow (Tina Pica) takes up his job to find the killers.

Cast

Tina Pica as Carmela Esposito, 'la Sceriffa'
Ugo Tognazzi as Colorado Joe
Livio Lorenzon as Jimmy Jesse
Tino Scotti as The Judge
Alberto Sorrentino as Brutto Tempo - the Native American
Anita Todesco as Nuvola Rosa - Brutto Tempo's Daughter
Carlo Pisacane as Nick
Carlo Sposito as Gennarino - aka Gen
Annie Alberti as Connie Dallas
Franco Balducci as Jimmy Jesse's Brother
Stelio Candelli as Bruno Carotenuto
Elio Crovetto as Jack - the Texan drunk
Tina De Mola as Dolly - the singer
Fanfulla as Ciccio - Sceriffa's assistant

Criticism

This is an “inconsequential western that tries in vain to poke fun at relevant American genre films; neither entertaining nor funny.”^[3] According to the dictionary of international film. The Italian colleagues complain that the film was shot "with little resources and too hasty", although it could have been "more pleasant with more care and attention".^[4] Christian Kessler notes that the director's 23rd film is exemplary of "the comedies of the time that attempted to revitalize the already worn-out ways of the local comedy class by adding genre-parodic elements".^[5] The film is "reasonably entertaining" despite the non-transferability of the dialect jokes prevalent in the original.

References

^ Giraldi, Massimo; Lancia, Enrico; Melelli, Fabio (2006). 100 caratteristi del cinema italiano: gli interpreti "minori" che hanno fatto grande il nostro cinema. Gremese Editore. p. 109. ISBN 978-88-8440-383-4. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
^ Fridlund, Bert (2006). The spaghetti Western: a thematic analysis. McFarland & Co. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-7864-2507-5. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
^ Montero, Roberto Bianchi (1959-08-16), La sceriffa (Comedy, Western), Betauno Film, retrieved 2022-03-29
^ "McNamara, Air Vice-Marshal (retd) Frank Hubert, (4 April 1894–2 Nov. 1961), RAAF, retd", Who Was Who, Oxford University Press, 2007-12-01, doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u54583, retrieved 2022-03-29
^ "Willkommen bei www.DerInternist.de". Der Internist. 43 (7): 858–859. July 2002. doi:10.1007/s001080200004. ISSN 0020-9554. PMID 27518612.

External links

La sceriffa at IMDb

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[GiraldiLancia2006-1] Giraldi, Massimo; Lancia, Enrico; Melelli, Fabio (2006). 100 caratteristi del cinema italiano: gli interpreti "minori" che hanno fatto grande il nostro cinema. Gremese Editore. p. 109. ISBN 978-88-8440-383-4. Retrieved 21 August 2012.

[Fridlund2006-2] Fridlund, Bert (2006). The spaghetti Western: a thematic analysis. McFarland & Co. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-7864-2507-5. Retrieved 21 August 2012.

[3] Montero, Roberto Bianchi (1959-08-16), La sceriffa (Comedy, Western), Betauno Film, retrieved 2022-03-29

[4] "McNamara, Air Vice-Marshal (retd) Frank Hubert, (4 April 1894–2 Nov. 1961), RAAF, retd", Who Was Who, Oxford University Press, 2007-12-01, doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u54583, retrieved 2022-03-29

[5] "Willkommen bei www.DerInternist.de". Der Internist. 43 (7): 858–859. July 2002. doi:10.1007/s001080200004. ISSN 0020-9554. PMID 27518612.

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