{{short description|1971 film by Gianfranco Parolini}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2016}} {{Infobox film | name = Return of Sabata | image = E-tornato-sabata-hai-chiuso-unaltra-volta-italian-movie-poster-md.jpg | alt = | caption = Italian film poster | native_name = <!-- {{Infobox name module|language|title}} or {{Infobox name module|title}} --> | director = Gianfranco Parolini | producer = Alberto Grimaldi<ref name="filmportal">{{cite web|url=https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/sabata-kehrt-zuruck_ea43d4a797615006e03053d50b37753d|publisher=Filmportal.de|title=Sabata kehrt zurück|accessdate=10 August 2018}}</ref> | writer = | screenplay = {{plainlist| * Renato Izzo * Gianfranco Parolini<ref name="filmportal" />}} | story = | based_on = <!-- {{Based on|title of the original work|creator of the original work|additional creator(s), if necessary}} --> | starring = {{plainlist|* Lee Van Cleef * Reiner Schöne * Giampiero Albertini * Ignazio Spalla * Annabella Incontrera * Jacqueline Alexandre * Aldo Canti * Vassili Karis * Gianni Rizzo}} | music = Marcello Giombini<ref name="filmportal" /> | cinematography = Sandro Mancori<ref name="filmportal" /> | editing = Gianfranco Parolini<ref name="filmportal" /> | production_companies = {{plainlist|* Produzioni Europee Associati * Les Productions Artistes Associés * Artemis Filmgesellschaft<ref name="filmportal" /><ref name="BFI">{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b713327a9|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180409110145/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b713327a9|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 April 2018|publisher=BFI|title=E' tornato Sabata... Hai chiuso un'altra volta! (1971)|accessdate=January 28, 2021}}</ref>}} | distributor = United Artists<ref name="archiv">{{cite web|url=http://www.archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it/index.php/scheda.html?codice=AG3022|publisher=Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it|title=E' tornato Sabata... Hai chiuso un'altra volta (1971)|accessdate=January 28, 2021|language=Italian}}</ref> | released = {{Film date|1971|9|3|Italy}} | runtime = 107 minutes | country = {{plainlist| * Italy * France * West Germany<ref name="filmportal" />}} | language = | budget = | gross = }} '''''Return of Sabata''''' ({{langx|it|È tornato Sabata ... hai chiuso un'altra volta|lit=Sabata is back ... you're finished again}}) is a 1971 spaghetti Western film directed by Gianfranco Parolini. The third film in ''The Sabata Trilogy'', it features the return of Lee Van Cleef as the title character, which he had played in the first film, ''Sabata'', but was replaced by Yul Brynner in the second film, ''Adiós, Sabata'', due to a scheduling conflict. ''Return of Sabata'' was listed in the 1978 book ''The Fifty Worst Films of All Time''.
==Plot== Sabata, a former Confederate army officer and steely-eyed, quick-drawing, impossibly accurate gunman with a trick gun, is working for a travelling circus as a stunt marksman. The circus comes to a small Texas town, where a former subordinate officer, a lieutenant from the army, is running a crooked casino. The man owes Sabata $5,000 from some time ago. Then the circus manager runs off with the circus funds, so Sabata decides to stay in town and try to collect on the debt from his friend. Sabata then runs into conflict with the town's land baron, McIntock, who imposes high taxes on gambling, drinking and prostitution with the supposed idea of building the town up, using the money. Sabata, who is after the money himself, finds out that the townspeople's money in McIntock's safe is counterfeit and that he and the priest have hidden it elsewhere, in the form of gold coins. After a few attempts on his life and many badmen dying under his guns, Sabata and the lieutenant are apparently killed so McIntock goes for the money, only to find them both still alive. Sabata is helped throughout by his friends: the acrobat, his partner and a fat, pompous man who is anything but what he seems.
==Cast== * Lee Van Cleef as Sabata * Reiner Schöne as Clyde * Giampiero Albertini as Joe McIntock * Ignazio Spalla as Bronco * Annabella Incontrera as Maggie * Jacqueline Alexandre as Jackie McIntock * Vassili Karis as Bionda the acrobat * Aldo Canti (as Nick Jordan) as Angel the acrobat * Gianni Rizzo as Jeremy Sweeney * Steffen Zacharias as Donovan * Pia Giancaro as Diane * John Bartha as Sheriff * Günther Stoll as Circus Showman * Carmelo Reale as Chuck * Franco Fantasia as Circus Owner
==Release== ''Return of Sabata'' was released in Italy on 3 September 1971.<ref name="filmportal" />
==Reception== From a retrospective review, Donald Guarisco of AllMovie stated that the film "falls prey to the principle of diminishing returns" noting that it followed the plot of the original ''Sabata'' films too closely and that it had "erratic pacing" and was too long.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-return-of-sabata-v107689/review#QzKuX6Zkmi0HU1zg.99|accessdate=April 24, 2026|last=Guarisco|first=Donald|title=Return of Sabata|work=AllMovie|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817225031/https://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-return-of-sabata-v107689/review#QzKuX6Zkmi0HU1zg.99|archivedate=August 17, 2016|url-status=usurped}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb title|0067672}}
{{The Sabata Trilogy}}
Category:Sabata films Category:Films directed by Gianfranco Parolini Category:Italian sequel films Category:West German films Category:French Western (genre) films Category:German Western (genre) films Category:Spaghetti Western films Category:United Artists films Category:1971 Western (genre) films Category:1971 films Category:Films produced by Alberto Grimaldi Category:Films scored by Marcello Giombini Category:Films set in Texas Category:Films shot in Croatia Category:1971 Italian films Category:1971 French films Category:1971 German films