White Apache

White Apache (Italian: Bianco Apache) is a 1986 Western film directed by Bruno Mattei. The film was an Italian and Spanish co-production between Beatrice Films and Multivideo.[2][3]

White Apache
Directed byBruno Mattei
Screenplay byFrancesco Prosperi[1]
Story byRoberto Di Girolamo[1]
Cinematography
  • Julio Burgos
  • Luigi Ciccarese[1]
Edited byVincenzo Vanni[1]
Music byLuigi Ceccarelli[1]
Production
companies
  • Beatrice Films
  • Multivideo[1]
Distributed byIndipendenti Regionali
Release dates
  • 1986 (1986)
  • 27 May 1987 (1987-05-27) (Spain)
Countries
LanguageItalian

Plot

After heavy gunfire in a clash with some outlaw, a pregnant woman is the only survivor of a caravan. Found by the Indians, the woman who is dying, is brought to the village, where she died giving birth to a child.

Cast

Production

While only Mattei is credited,[1][3] some sources such as Kevin Grant's book Any Gun Can Play state that Claudio Fragasso also directed the film uncredited.[2] On discussing their collaborations on The Other Hell and The True Story of the Nuns of Monza, Fragasso stated he would shoot the film at the same time Mattei was shooting the other which was also done with their two woman in prison films Violence in a Women's Prison and Women's Prison Massacre and the Westerns Scalps and White Apache.[4] Mattei stater otherwise, that Fragasso was an assistant director on these films, and nothing more.[4]

Release

White Apache was first released in 1986.[2] was released in Spain on 27 May 1987.[5] The film was also released as Apache Kid.[2] In the uncut versions of both White Apache and Scalps contain scenes of scalping, dismemberment and other violence.[6]

Reception

From retrospective reviews, in their book Dizionario del cinema italiano, Roberto Chiti and Roberto Poppi noted the film had a poor story, modest acting and was hastily directed while praised its attempt to develop characters in the story.[3]

References
  1. "Bianco Apache (1986)" (in Italian). Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  2. Grant 2011, p. 468.
  3. Chiti & Poppi 2000, p. 77.
  4. Curti 2019, p. 52.
  5. "Apache Kid (Bianco Apache)". ICAA Film Database. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
  6. Grant 2011, p. 296.

Sources
  • Curti, Roberto (2019). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476672434.
  • Grant, Kevin (2011). Any Gun Can Play. Fab Press. ISBN 9781903254615.
  • Chiti, Roberto; Poppi, Roberto (2000). Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gremese Editore]. ISBN 8877424230.


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