{{Short description|1968 film}} {{Infobox film | image = Revenge for Revenge.jpg | director = Mario Colucci | writer = Mario Colucci | starring = John Ireland <br> | music = Angelo Francesco Lavagnino | cinematography = Giuseppe Aquari | editing = Enzo Micarelli | producer = Natalino Gullo | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1968}} | runtime = | country = Italy | language = | budget = }} '''''Revenge for Revenge''''' ({{Langx|it|Vendetta per vendetta}}), also known as ''''' Vengeance for Vengeance''''', is a 1968 Italian Spaghetti Western film written and directed by Mario Colucci and starring John Ireland.
==Plot== {{No plot|date=July 2025}}
== Cast ==
* John Ireland as Major Bowen * John Hamilton as Chaliko/Shalako * Loredana Nusciak as Clara/Ann Bower * Lemmy Carson as Pico * Gianni Milito as Pico * Ivan Scratuglia as Jeb * Remo Capitani as the Sheriff
==Production== The film had the working title ''Appuntamento di fuoco'' ('Fire date').<ref name=bio>{{cite book|author=Giusti, Marco|title=Dizionario del western all'italiana|year=2007|publisher=Mondadori|chapter=Vendetta per vendetta|isbn=978-88-04-57277-0|pages=574–5}}</ref>
==Reception== Rewieving the film, Italian critic Davide Pulici noted the striking non-conformist approach of the film, where "strangeness and dissimilarity [from the genre] are meticulously planned", with a significant amount of screen time devoted to sadism (particularly in a long sequence featuring 61 whip strokes on Chaliko, described by Pulici as "one of the genre's most extreme instances of sadistic representation") and homosexuality (subtly suggested in the dynamic between the Ireland and Lemmon characters, and explicit in the Scratuglia's portrayal of Jeb).<ref name="Nocturno">{{cite journal |last1=Pulici|first1=Davide|title=Vendetta per vendetta|journal=Nocturno Dossier |date=December 2004 |volume=31 |page=38}}</ref> French critic Jean-Marie Sabatier, while describing the film as "mediocre", apprecciated "the astonishing psychological climate in which it immerses a very banal intrigue".<ref name=bio>{{cite book|author=Giusti, Marco|title=Dizionario del western all'italiana|year=2007|publisher=Mondadori|chapter=Vendetta per vendetta|isbn=978-88-04-57277-0|pages=574–5}}</ref> Italian film historian Matteo Mancini panned the film, which has "no noteworthy moments", and with Colucci that "brings nothing new to the genre, directs in a tired manner, and tends to stretch out sequences".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mancini |first1=Matteo |title=Spaghetti western: Il mezzogiorno di fuoco del genere (anni '68-'71) |date=2012 |publisher=Il foglio |isbn=978-88-7606-623-8 |pages=886-888 }}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb title}}
Category:1968 films Category:Spaghetti Western films Category:1968 Western (genre) films Category:1968 Italian films Category:Films scored by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino Category:1968 directorial debut films