Tepepa (1968)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Giulio Petroni

Writers:

Ivan Della Mea (screenplay)
Ivan Della Mea (story)

Release Date:

November 1979 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Western

Plot:

The Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro.

Plot Keywords:

Mexican | Famous Score | Mexican Revolution | Explosive | Culture Clash

Cast

Tomas Milian	...	Jesus Maria Moran a.k.a. Tepepa
Orson Welles	...	Colonel Cascorro
John Steiner	...	Doctor Henry Price
Luciano Casamonica	...	Paquito
Ángel Ortiz
Annamaria Lanciaprima	...	Maria Virgen Escalande
José Torres	...	Pedro Pereira called El Piojo
Paloma Cela	...	Consuelo
George Wang	...	Mr. Chu
Giancarlo Badessi	...	Sergeant
Francisco Sanz
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Armando Casamonica
Clara Colosimo	...	Sergeant's wife
Mario Daddi
Lina Franchi
Vittorio Gigli
Rafael Hernández
Alba Maiolini
Paola Natale

Also Known As:

Blood and Guns (USA) (video title)
Long Live the Revolution (USA)
Tepepa... Viva la revolución (Spain)

Runtime:

Italy:136 min | Spain:105 min | USA:96 min | West Germany:108 min

Country:

Italy | Spain

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

West Germany:16 (f) | Sweden:15 | USA:R | Iceland:16

Filming Locations:

Almería, Andalucía, Spain

Company:

Filmamerica

Goofs:

Continuity: After Tepepa blows up their wagon, he fires at the Mexican troops on the ground with his Mauser C96. The model he uses is a standard ten round integral magazine version. He clearly fires more than ten rounds, without reloading. In fact the gun is never reloaded throughout the entire movie.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Ti piace Hitchcock? (2005) (TV)

A wonderful mexican western with Mr. Citizen Kane himself - Orson Welles

If you like action-packed westerns, then you'll be in for a treat when you see the marvelous masterpiece, "Blood and Guns." It has a great cast, fantastic acting, and it takes a common "good guys vs. bad guys" plot and turns it into a memorable viewing experience through humor, tragedy, and most importantly, Orson Welles. There has never been a film like this before or after its release. It's a true original! What other movie uses billy goats strapped with dynamite to attract the enemy? What other movie shows Orson Welles shooting at a man on a horse going around a little red car in cirlces? None. There is an evil doctor with a chin bigger than Jay Leno's. There is a great battle scene between the peasants and the mexican brown-suits. Tomas Milian, who played Tomas F. Dobb in a spanish version of "Revolution", is the man with the big black sombrero who taunts Orson Welles until he learns his lesson from the big man himself. There's the naive mexican boy. The frightened citizens. The violence. And Orson Welles, who actuually trips near the end of the film and the director left it in. A classic! It's very hard to find. Get it if you can.