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Chino (Italian: Valdez, il mezzosangue, UK theatrical title: Valdez the Half Breed) is a 1973 Italian Western film starring Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Marcel Bozzuffi, and Vincent Van Patten. The original English language title shown at the beginning of the film was The Valdez Horses, the same title that the novel on which the movie is based. It was an Italian-Spanish-French co-production filmed in Spain, with Italian and French funding.[1]

Chino
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDuilio Coletti
John Sturges
Screenplay byClair Huffaker
Based onthe novel The Valdez Horses
by Lee Hoffman
Produced byJohn Sturges
Dino De Laurentiis
StarringCharles Bronson
Jill Ireland
Marcel Bozzuffi
Vincent Van Patten
CinematographyArmando Nannuzzi
Edited byLuis Álvarez
Vanio Amici
Music byGuido De Angelis
Maurizio De Angelis
Production
companies
Produzioni De Laurentiis International Manufacturing Company
Coral Producciones Cinematográficas
Universal Productions France
Distributed byIntercontinental Releasing Corporation
Release date
  • September 14, 1973 (1973-09-14) (Italy)
Running time
98 minutes
CountriesFrance
Italy
Spain
LanguageEnglish

Plot


Chino Valdez (Bronson) is a lonely horse breeder, whose life is thrown into turmoil when a young runaway (Van Patten) turns up at his door looking for work and, later, he falls in love with a beautiful woman (Ireland) whose brother (Bozzuffi) hates him.


Cast



Production


Director John Sturges was unhappy with the finished film and considered the casting of Jill Ireland a fatal mistake. Six months after finishing the movie, Producer Dino De Laurentiis gathered the actors and crew to return for re-shoots and inserts. With Sturges no longer available, veteran Italian director Duilio Coletti was hired to complete the work. His name is listed as director on some European prints as a result.[2]


Reception



Critical response


Time Out magazine said of the film, "Bronson suffers from galloping symbolism as Valdez, a wild horse-taming Mexican halfbreed representing different things to different people. Overall, he is the mustang, caught in a wild West which is being tamed and fenced in by white settlers... Despite a few dodgy moments when one really fears for Valdez' co-optability by Ireland's well-kept fragility, the film maintains its contradictory stance right through to a bitter-sweet ending. Valdez leaves, sans wife, sans house, but on his own terms, and after ensuring that if he can't tame the wild horses no one else will.[3]


References


  1. Chino at the American Film Institute Catalog.
  2. Lovell, Glenn (2008). Escape Artist: The Life and Films of John Sturges. The University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 277–278. ISBN 978-029922834-7.
  3. TimeOut. Staff film review, no date. Accessed: June 22, 2013.



На других языках


- [en] Chino (1973 film)

[ru] Лошади Вальдеса

«Лошади Вальдеса» (итал. Valdez, il mezzosangue буквально — Вальдес-полукровка; в американском, французском прокате и ряде российских изданий название фильма — «Чино», англ. Chino)[1] — итальянский фильм режиссёра Джона Стёрджеса, с Чарльзом Бронсоном в главной роли. Бо́льшая часть натурных съёмок проходила в Испании. Премьера состоялась в Италии 14 сентября 1973 года.



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