The Longest Hunt

{{short description|1968 film}} {{Infobox film | name = The Longest Hunt | image = The Longest Hunt.jpg | caption = | director = [[Bruno Corbucci]] | writer = Bruno Corbucci <br /> [[Mario Amendola]] | starring = | music = [[Vasili Kojucharov]] | cinematography = Fausto Zuccoli | editing = | producer = | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1968}} | runtime = | country = Italy | language = Italian<br>English | budget = }} '''''Spara, Gringo, spara''''' (internationally released as '''''The Longest Hunt''''' and ''Shoot, Gringo... Shoot!'') is a 1968 [[Italy|Italian]] [[Spaghetti Western]] directed by [[Bruno Corbucci]].

It is the first western directed by [[Bruno Corbucci]] (brother of western specialist [[Sergio Corbucci]]), and except the parodistic and bizarre ''[[The Three Musketeers of the West]]'' it is his only western.<ref name=sed/> The title song "Rainbow... vorrei... vorrei" is performed by [[Little Tony (singer)|Little Tony]].<ref name=sed>{{cite book|last=Marco Giusti|title=Dizionario del western all'italiana|date=2007 |publisher=Mondadori, 2007|isbn=978-88-04-57277-0}}</ref> [[Alex Cox]] in his book ''10,000 Ways to Die'' refers to the film as "derivative and boring", "a reminder that talent as a director is not inheritable, or a family trait."<ref>{{cite book|last=Alex Cox|author-link=Alex Cox|title=10,000 Ways to Die: A Director's Take on the Spaghetti Western|publisher=Oldcastle Books, 2009}}</ref>

==Plot== US-American adventurer Stark has been sentenced to death in a Mexican village. A rich Mexican rancher saves him from getting hanged but he must return the favour by saving the rancher's son Fidel. He is told that Fidel has somehow been persuaded or even forced to join a gang. Stark shall bring Fidel back to his father. The American believes that the rancher is worried sick about his son's well-being. When he delivers Fidel he understands just on time that things are very different. The rancher intends to whitewash his honour by getting rid of Fidel because he's ashamed of having an illegitimate son.

== Cast == * [[Brian Kelly (actor)|Brian Kelly]] as Stark * [[Keenan Wynn]] as Major Charlie Doneghan * [[Erika Blanc]] as Jocelyn * [[Folco Lulli]] as Don Hernando Gutierrez * [[Fabrizio Moroni]] as Fidel * [[Linda Sini]] as Dona Sol Gutierrez * [[Krista Nell]] as Sheila *[[Rik Battaglia]] as Cpt. Norton *[[Luigi Bonos]] as Sgt. Peck *[[Enzo Andronico]] as Gunther * [[Ignazio Leone]] as Doctor * [[Luca Sportelli]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0066396}}

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