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The Return of Ringo (Italian: Il ritorno di Ringo) is a 1965 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Duccio Tessari and the sequel to the earlier film A Pistol for Ringo.[4]

The Return of Ringo
Italian theatrical release poster
Directed by	Duccio Tessari
Screenplay by	Duccio Tessari Fernando Di Leo[1][2]
Story by	Duccio Tessari Fernando Di Leo[1]
Produced by	Luciano Ercoli Alberto Pugliesi[3]
Starring	Giuliano Gemma Fernando Sancho Hally Hammond Nieves Navarro Antonio Casas Manuel Muñiz George Martin
Cinematography	Francisco Marin[1]
Edited by	Licia Quaglia[1]
Music by	Ennio Morricone[1]
Production companies	Produzioni Cinematografiche Mediterranee Rizzoli Film P.C. Balcázar[1]
Distributed by	Cineriz[1]
Release date	December 1965 (1965-12) (Italy)
Countries	Italy Spain[3]

Like its predecessor, the film features a score composed by Ennio Morricone and stars Giuliano Gemma (billed as 'Montgomery Wood') alongside Fernando Sancho, Nieves Navarro, George Martin, Antonio Casas, and Hally Hammond. The film's story is a loose retelling of Homer's Odyssey and is not a continuation of the plot of the previous Ringo film.

Cast

Music

Il ritorno di Ringo
Soundtrack album by Ennio Morricone
Released	1965 (Original album)
Genre	Soundtrack
Label	RCA Italiana
Ennio Morricone chronology
Idoli controluce (1965) Il ritorno di Ringo (1965) Seven Guns for the MacGregors (1966)

All music by Ennio Morricone.

1. "Il ritorno di Ringo – Main Titles" – 2:16 (Lyrics and vocals by Maurizio Graf)
2. "The Disguise" – 2:23
3. "Mariachi #1" – 1:51
4. "Violence" – 5:54
5. "Sheriff Carson" – 1:20
6. "The Fuentes" – 1:08
7. "Mariachi #2" – 2:03
8. "Main Titles Instrumental" – 1:26
9. "Barnaba's Bamba" – 2:34
10. "The Wedding and The Revenge" – 1:28
11. "The Funeral" – 2:03
12. "Peace Comes Back in Mimbres" – 2:20

Release

The Return of Ringo was released in December 1965 in Italy.[5] The film was the third highest-grossing film in Italy in 1965 behind For a Few Dollars More and A Pistol for Ringo.[5]

Reception

From contemporary reviews, the Monthly Film Bulletin that the film's story is "treated with an imagination unequaled in other Italian Westerns." The review continued that "what makes the film more than merely clever is the handing of its theme: as in the second half of The Odyssey, the hero-treated by all as dead-has to rediscover his identity." The review during the film's climax and ending "Tessari shiningly confirms his sense of the poetic."[6] "Hawk." of Variety described the film as "fair-to-middlin'" noting the cliches the film had, but that Tessari "keeps things lively, alternating action alternating action and humor" while noting the violence in the film "bordered on sadism."[7] "Hawk." found the film to be superior to A Pistol for Ringo.[7]

References

Bibliography

External links

• The Return of Ringo at IMDb

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