The Unholy Four (1970 film)

{{short description|1970 film}} {{More citations needed|date=June 2021}} {{Infobox film | name = Chuck Mool | image = Ciakmull - L'uomo della vendetta.jpg | caption = Belgian [[film poster]] | director = [[Enzo Barboni]] | screenplay = {{plainlist| * Mario di Nardo * [[Franco Rossetti]] }} | story = Franco Rossetti | starring = {{plainlist| *[[Leonard Mann (actor)|Leonard Mann]] *[[Woody Strode]] *[[Peter Martell]] *[[George Eastman (actor)|Luca Montefiori]] *[[Helmuth Schneider]] *Lucio Rosato *Alain Naya *[[Ida Galli|Ewelin Stewart]] }} | music = [[Riz Ortolani]] | cinematography =[[Mario Montuori]] | editing = [[Eugenio Alabiso]] | producer =Manolo Bolognini | studio = {{plainlist| * B.R.C. Produzione Film * Produzioni Atlas Consorziate (P.A.C.) }} | distributor = Produzioni Atlas Consorziate (P.A.C.) | released = {{Film date|1970}} | runtime = 95 minutes | country = Italy | language = | budget = }} '''''The Unholy Four''''' ([[Italian language|Italian]]: ''Ciakmull (L'uomo della vendetta)'', lit. "Ciakmull (The vengeful man)"), also known as '''''Chuck Mool''''', is a 1970 [[Italy|Italian]] [[Spaghetti Western]]. The film represents the directorial debut of [[Enzo Barboni]], who was, until then, a respected cinematographer. He replaced [[Ferdinando Baldi]], who was fired by the producer Manolo Bolognini because of his insistence in wanting to engage the actress [[Annabella Incontrera]] in the role of Sheila.<ref>{{cite book|last=Marco Giusti|title=Dizionario del western all'italiana|year=2007|publisher=Mondadori, 2007|isbn=978-88-04-57277-0|page=93}}</ref>

==Plot== When a violent gang robs a bank, they also commit arson because the diversion eases their getaway. While the local prison is burning, four of its inmates profit from the general turmoil too. Among the four escapees is Chuck Mool, a young man suffering with amnesia, who only remembers about his previous life that he has been home in the town Oxaca. For lack of a better idea all the fugitives go there. It shows that Mool is not forgotten in Oxaca. Lion Udo, the father of one of the bankrobbers, recognizes Mool. He, whose clan has a feud with Mool's family, takes advantage of his condition by turning him against his own kin. Before this plan works out, Mool is warned in time by one of his fellow fugitives. Mool contacts his half-brother Alan and his father John Caldwell. Only then he learns what caused his amnesia and why he'd ended up in prison. It was Alan who once mistreated Mool and ran a scheme to put him away. He hates Mool since he knows that he is not the son of John Caldwell, but the child of a rapist.

== Cast == * [[Leonard Mann (actor)|Leonard Mann]] as Chuck Mool * [[Woody Strode]] as Woody * [[Peter Martell]] as Silver * [[Helmuth Schneider]] as Joe Caldwell * [[George Eastman (actor)|George Eastman]] as Hondo * [[Ida Galli]] as Sheila * [[Alain Naya]] as Alan Caldwell * [[Dino Strano]] as Sam * [[Andrea Aureli]] as Santiago * [[Enzo Fiermonte]] as Sheriff * [[Giuseppe Lauricella]] as Udo * [[Romano Puppo]] as Burt * [[Lucio Rosato]] as Tom Udo * [[Luciano Rossi]] as Fair Poker Player * [[Giovanni Cianfriglia]] as Saloon Brawler * [[Claudio Scarchilli]] as Saloon Brawler

==Releases== Wild East Productions released this on a limited edition DVD in 2007 with ''[[The Forgotten Pistolero]]''.

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==External links== *{{IMDb title|0065550}}

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