Tepepa

{{short description|1969 film}} {{Infobox film | name = Tepepa | image = Tepepa film poster.jpg | caption = Italian [[film poster]] | director = [[Giulio Petroni]] | screenplay = [[Franco Solinas]] [[Ivan Della Mea]] | starring = [[Tomas Milian]] [[Orson Welles]] [[John Steiner]] José Torres Luciano Casamonica | music = [[Ennio Morricone]] | cinematography = Francisco Marín | editing = [[Eraldo Da Roma]] | producer = Franco Clementi Alfredo Cuomo Nicolo Pomilia Richard Herland | studio = Filmamerica Società Italiana Attuazione Progetti (SIAP) Productores Exhibidores Films Sociedad Anónima (PEFSA) | distributor = Magna | released = {{Film date|1969|04|13|df=yes}} | runtime = 132 minutes | country = Italy Spain | language = Italian Spanish English | budget = }} '''''Tepepa''''', also known as '''''Blood and Guns''''', is an Italian [[Epic (genre)|epic]] [[Zapata Western]] film starring [[Tomas Milian]] and [[Orson Welles]]. The film was directed by [[Giulio Petroni]]. It was co-produced with [[Spain]], where the film was released with the title ''Tepepa... Viva La Revolución''.<ref name="60-69 m-z">{{cite book|last=Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film|date=2007 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2007|isbn=978-8884405036}}</ref>

== Plot == The government of "comrade" Madero does not satisfy the [[peon]] Tepepa, who continues his guerilla battle as a revolutionary, against the government troops together with a group of faithful fighters. Tepepa is feeling mocked by the ex-revolutionary Madero, who is now head of state. Tepepa finds himself several times facing the fearsome chief of police, Colonel Cascorro, and is constantly persecuted by an English doctor, Henry Price. Dr. Price is eager to avenge a girl from a rich family, with whom he was in love, and whom Tepepa raped, causing her to commit suicide.

During the last fight Cascorro finally manages to wound Tepepa, who has escaped him several times, but in the decisive battle Cascarro is killed by the revolutionary. Meanwhile, the doctor, who despite his hatred for Tepepa had remained at the side of the revolutionaries, manages to take revenge on the peon, killing him with a scalpel immediately after extracting the bullet from his wound.

Henry Price then packs his horse to leave, only to be shot by a young boy named Paquito. The boy claims he did it because the Englishman once said he did not like Mexico.

The death of Tepepa, however, does not mark the end of the revolution, and others will continue the battle in his place.

== Cast == *[[Tomas Milian]] as Jesus Maria "Tepepa" Moran *[[Orson Welles]] as Colonel Cascorro *[[John Steiner]] as Doctor Henry Price *José Torres as Pedro "El Piojo" Pereira *Luciano Casamonica as Paquito *Annamaria Lanciaprima as Maria Virgen Escalande *[[George Wang (actor)|George Wang]] as Mr. Chu *[[Francisco Sanz (actor)|Paco Sanz]] as President Madero *[[Clara Colosimo]] as Sergeant's Wife *[[Giancarlo Badessi]] as Sergeant *[[Rafael Hernández (actor)|Rafael Hernández]] as Pedro *[[Paloma Cela]] as Consuelo *Ángel Ortiz as Urelio

== Production== The film stars Tomas Milian and Orson Welles in opposing roles. Director Giulio Petroni expressed disappointment with Welles. Petroni claimed that the atmosphere on the set was "terrible," and that Welles called Milian (who idolized Welles) a "dirty Cuban".<ref>{{cite web|last=Maria Pia Fusco|title=Quelle sfide sul set tra Orson Welles e Tomas Milian|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2007/08/05/quelle-sfide-sul-set-tra-orson-welles.html|publisher=La Repubblica|accessdate=22 November 2011|language=it|date=5 August 2007}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0063679}}

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