In Dallas, an ex-Union soldier attempts to expose a conspiracy of Southerners who murdered his father, his friend and the President.In Dallas, an ex-Union soldier attempts to expose a conspiracy of Southerners who murdered his father, his friend and the President.In Dallas, an ex-Union soldier attempts to expose a conspiracy of Southerners who murdered his father, his friend and the President.
María Cuadra
- Lucretia Garfield
- (as Maria Cuadra)
Rai Sanders
- Jack Donavan
- (as Rai Saunders)
María Luisa Sala
- Governor's Wife
- (as Maria Luisa Sala)
Ángel Álvarez
- J. B. Cotton
- (as Angel Alvarez)
Ángel del Pozo
- Lawyer
- (as Angel Del Pozo)
José Suárez
- Vice President Chester A. Arthur
- (as José Suarez)
- Director
- Writers
- Massimo Patrizi
- Ernesto Gastaldi(uncredited)
- Tonino Valerii(uncredited)
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- TriviaNear the beginning of the film, a poster, headed "Wanted for treason" is seen on a wall. It includes head-on and sideways pictures, like police "mug shots". A similar poster was published in Dallas with picture of President Kennedy before his assassination.
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President James Garfield: I could never feel like the President of the United States if I couldn't visit freely ALL of those United States.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Red Dead Revolver (2004)
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A Great Spaghetti Western that Comments on the JFK Assassination.
"The Price of Power" (1969), directed by Tonino Valerii, is a Spaghetti Western starring Guiliano Gemma, Van Johnson, Fernando Rey and Benito Stefanelli. Made six years after the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy, it seeks to comment sharply on the situation, perhaps more bitingly than Hollywood wanted or was able to do at that time.
The plot is thus, with their 1963 equivalents blatantly obvious: in Dallas, Texas, 1883 an unpopular liberal President (Johnson) visits the city and is assassinated in a crossfire of lead. A black patsy is quickly found by the corrupt sheriff (Stefanelli) and is killed while in transit between prisons. The framed man's friend (Gemma) seeks to find out the truth, variously aided and set back by a mysterious government agent (Warren Vanders).
Reading the synopsis, it's pretty clear where Valerii is heading, and he does so with style and tension. Well-acted, photographed and edited, with some excellent gunfights, this is a Spaghetti Western that deserves a much wider reputation that the one it currently holds.
The plot is thus, with their 1963 equivalents blatantly obvious: in Dallas, Texas, 1883 an unpopular liberal President (Johnson) visits the city and is assassinated in a crossfire of lead. A black patsy is quickly found by the corrupt sheriff (Stefanelli) and is killed while in transit between prisons. The framed man's friend (Gemma) seeks to find out the truth, variously aided and set back by a mysterious government agent (Warren Vanders).
Reading the synopsis, it's pretty clear where Valerii is heading, and he does so with style and tension. Well-acted, photographed and edited, with some excellent gunfights, this is a Spaghetti Western that deserves a much wider reputation that the one it currently holds.
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