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Mannaja

  • 1977
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 41min
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Mannaja (1977)
Del oeste (Western) a la italianaAcciónDramaThrillerWestern

Agrega una trama en tu idiomaA bounty hunter is hired by a mining town's crippled mayor to find his daughter, who has been kidnapped by the mayor's corrupt right-hand-man and his outlaw gang.A bounty hunter is hired by a mining town's crippled mayor to find his daughter, who has been kidnapped by the mayor's corrupt right-hand-man and his outlaw gang.A bounty hunter is hired by a mining town's crippled mayor to find his daughter, who has been kidnapped by the mayor's corrupt right-hand-man and his outlaw gang.

  • Dirección
    • Sergio Martino
  • Guionistas
    • Sergio Martino
    • Sauro Scavolini
  • Elenco
    • Maurizio Merli
    • John Steiner
    • Sonja Jeannine
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
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    • Dirección
      • Sergio Martino
    • Guionistas
      • Sergio Martino
      • Sauro Scavolini
    • Elenco
      • Maurizio Merli
      • John Steiner
      • Sonja Jeannine
    • 27Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 14Opiniones de los críticos
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    Maurizio Merli
    Maurizio Merli
    • Mannaja
    John Steiner
    John Steiner
    • Valler
    Sonja Jeannine
    Sonja Jeannine
    • Deborah McGowan
    Donald O'Brien
    Donald O'Brien
    • Burt Craven
    Salvatore Puntillo
    • Johnny Johnny, Impresario
    Antonio Casale
    Antonio Casale
    • Dahlman
    • (as Nino Casale)
    Enzo Fiermonte
    Enzo Fiermonte
    • Government Agent
    Rik Battaglia
    Rik Battaglia
    • Gerald Merton
    • (as Rick Battaglia)
    Aldo Rendine
    • Stagecoach Traveller
    Vincenzo Maggio
    • Oldtimer
    • (as Enzo Maggio)
    Sergio Tardioli
    • Saloon Barman
    Sofia Lombardo
    • Lucy Merton
    • (as Sophia Lombardo)
    Philippe Leroy
    Philippe Leroy
    • Edward M. McGowan
    Martine Brochard
    Martine Brochard
    • Angela
    Giuseppe Cardone
    • Poker player
    • (sin créditos)
    Domenico Cianfriglia
    • Valler Henchman
    • (sin créditos)
    Arnaldo Dell'Acqua
    • Valler Henchman
    • (sin créditos)
    Ottaviano Dell'Acqua
    Ottaviano Dell'Acqua
    • Rioting Miner
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      • Sergio Martino
      • Sauro Scavolini
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    9Coventry

    Eat your heart out, Wesley Snipes!

    The titular character thankfully isn't an ancestor of overrated vampire-hunter Wesley Snipes, but a genuinely old-fashioned and testosterone-laden spaghetti western hero who furiously wanders around the deserts like a one-man-army, hunting down wanted criminals for the rewards on their head. Blade is relentless but fair, he has an imposing charisma and wields hatchets as professionally as he fires shotguns. In short, he's the ideal guy to dedicate another magnificently violent, imaginative and nasty euro-Western to! And, oh yes, Sergio Martino's film can easily compete with the absolute greatest efforts in this sadly extinct sub genre of cult cinema, like Sergio Corbucci's "Django", Sergio Sollima's "The Big Gundown" and perhaps even some of Serio Leoni's lesser known movies. "A Man Called Blade" is a very eventful and exciting film, chock-full of outrageous gun & fistfights, mean & treasonous bandits and wild ambushes. When arriving in the little town of Suttonville to claim the reward on a killer's head, Blade encounters the vicious & corrupt sidekick of a prominent businessman. Blade offers his services to McGowan and Voller, because despite exploiting the local miners, large troops of outlaws continuously steal the silver. Voller wants to get rid of Blade as soon as possible, because he plots to take over the empire, but Blade is tough and has an extra personal score to settle with McGowan. The plot twists perhaps aren't the most original ones ever, but bear in mind "A Man Called Blade" got released during the dying years of spaghetti western cinema. And even though not always original, Martino's film is fast-paced and doesn't feature a single dull moment. The fights are dirty (literally) and the violence is rather graphic, with several cowboys dying from hatches in their foreheads or bullets between the eyes. The outdoor locations are sublime and I absolutely loved the moody theme song that gets repeated during the film's most essential sequences. Other fans seem to disapprove of the music in this film, but I thought it was excellent. Maurizio Merli makes a terrific macho hero. Perhaps not as legendary as Franco Nero or Tomas Milian, but close enough. The film sadly doesn't have a strong female lead, only a sympathetic go-go dancer and the silent daughter of the mayor. The most memorable performance is given by John Steiner as Blade's sadistic opponent Voller. With his ugly face and almost natural aura of arrogance, Steiner gave image of multiple villains in Italian cult films. His role here definitely ranks among the best! Highly recommended.
    8charley-54

    Very entertaining Spaghetti Western

    I absolutely love this film.

    The lead actor, Maurizio Merli, is a handsome man and a decent actor cast in the role of the "Good" Bounty Hunter, with Donald O'Brien as the "Ugly" thief/wanted man, and John Steiner as the "Bad" villain. The acting is top-notch as far as Italian Westerns go. The cinematography is beautiful, the editing great, and the direction superb. The sets are great but shrouded in a mysterious fog that lends to the movies surrealism. This film is like a very Artistic Western Graphic-Novel!

    There are a few things in the plot that make you scratch your head (what movie DOESN'T suffer this problem?) but overall I would rank this in my Top Ten Westerns so far...here is the list (only culled from films I have seen thus far)

    1. The Good The Bad The Ugly 2. Django 3. Mannaja 4. Fistful of Dollars 5. For a Few Dollars More 6. Tombstone 7. Outlaw Josey Wales 8. Unforgiven 9. Pale Rider 10.Silverado 11.High Plains Drifter 12.Hang Em High 13.Once Upon A Time in the West 14.Fistful of Dynamite 15.The Quick and The Dead

    If you are a fan of movies that are as much art as film, then you should love Italian cinema!
    chaos-rampant

    The spaghetti western genre goes out with a bang...

    By 1977, the spaghetti western was already on its death throes and if I'm not horribly mistaken, Mannaja is the last major release in the genre. These latter day spaghetti westerns are all visibly different from the 67-71 ones in that they tried to push the envelope in different ways. Ironically the vast amount of tired, quickie Django and Sartana clones that sprung in the late 60's weren't the final nail in the coffin. It seems that after westerns like Mannaja the genre had nowhere to go, having explored every nook and cranny of the old west and milked every bit of potential in the process.

    Sergio Martino was not a regular spaghetti western director. He made his name through a series of fantastic giallo thrillers in the early 70's (All the Colours of the Dark, The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh etc) but he was generally a genre director who dabbled with anything that came his way. As a testament to his talent, he was usually successful, often with stunning results. He had tried his hand on the western once more in the Anthonio De Steffen vehicle Arizona Colt Returns, which was a pleasurable entry but business as usual for the most part. Mannaja is markedly different in that it strives for more. It has ambition and the means to pull it off.

    Strangely, Mannaja takes its cue from Enzo G. Castellari's incredible Keoma (or as it was retitled for commercial purposes, Django Rides Again) from one year earlier. Maurizio Merli's Mannaja bears more than a passing resemblance to the dirty and grim looking Keoma played by Franco Nero, there are several beautiful slo-mo shots, a dream-like atmosphere in places, it's quite brutal (a hand is chopped, a woman is whipped, a man gets an axe in his head, old ladies and other innocent bystanders are shot and killed) and the score is very weird by spaghetti western standards and it can be as annoying as Keoma's (although I didn't mind the latter). Just as Keoma, it doesn't shy away from taking risks and luckily it pays off, no least thanks to Martino's skillful directing. There's visual awesomeness to be found throughout the movie. Striking compositions are enhanced by great set design lending a gritty feeling to everything from the dilapidated town to the dirty clothes to the muddy streets. Nature plays a big part in how the movie looks: rain, mud, fog are all used to great effect, the last shootout in the fog adding a surreal, ghost-town quality to it. The look of the first half hour reminded me of Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller for some reason, with a dash of Django. It also appears to be very much influenced by the work of Sam Peckinpah, whom Sergio Martino himself cites as an inspiration. Generally it's equal parts gritty and atmospheric and with enough budget to hold everything on the seams.

    Maurizio Merli made his name in the Italian movie business by playing violent Dirty Harry-esquire cops in polizioto crime flicks and was quite successful as a genre actor. He can play the mean machine effortlessly and it's a real pleasure to watch him as a badass bounty hunter here. A real shame that he didn't do more westerns and even more so that he passed away 4-5 years after making this one. The rest of the cast all turn in fine performances.

    Mannaja might have come during the twilight of the spaghetti western but it's easily one of the best it has to offer. A must-see for fans.
    7ma-cortes

    The movie gets the usual Western issues , such as avenger antiheroes , violent facing off and exaggerated baddies

    Italian production full of action , excessive characters , shootouts and lots of violence . For money, for pleasure, for revenge, he doesn't care why he kills or how . It deals with a dramatic story of a feud between implacable enemies . After getting the bounty of a villainous outlaw known as Burt Craven (Donald O'Brien) , a tough bounty hunter named Blade (Maurizio Merli) arrives in a mining city called Suttonville , where is hired to track down the abducted daughter (Sonja Jeannine) of the town's crippled owner (Philippe Leroy) who has a corrupt right-hand-man (John Steiner) . Meanwhile , a bunch of bandits are looting shipment of silver from the silver mines that are run the mine owner McGregor. But Blade is double-crossed and imprisoned by the nasties and submitted to cruel tortures . Later on , there takes place some exciting scenes of men fighting to the death . At the end happens a bloody vendetta and reckoning , as usual . Sharp shoots, gun and axe with great accuracy!

    This Western contains action-packed , ruthless characters , quick-fire , violence , rapacious revenge , slaughter , shoot'em up and results to be quite entertaining , though drags at times , balancing in ups and downs . A good example of twilight Spaghetti western genre from Italy ; it is daring , a notoriously violent Pasta movie , so extreme in every way , it is one of the handful of Italian Western that abounded in the 60s and 70s . This moving Spaghetti packs noisy action , thrills , crossfire , twists and turns with exciting final . There is a very odd implementation of shots in the camera work during some particular scenes as the film approaches its climax , as in the ending and the unusual conclusion . There is plenty of action in the movie , guaranteeing some violence , shoot'em up or stunts every few minutes , including agreeable soundtrack with Morricone influence . Well starred by Maurizio Merli as a bounty killer , armed with a hatchet instead of a gun , Merli may be a name best remembered by Poliziesco aficionados, but in his day, from the mid-'70s to the late 80s, Maurizio was one of the most popular actors of the genre where he found his niche - at the time cheap B movies, now revered cult classics. The handsome, Italian-born actor began in Western genre in White Fang series (1974) and worked well enough for Marino Girolami and Fabrizio De Angelis to cast Merli as the lead in the crime drama Rome violent (1975) a year later. Much like before, Merli was cast because the film vaguely resembled the Franco Nero Film Streets of eternity (1973) ("High Crime") . Violent Rome (1975) turned out to be a huge success both in Italy and abroad and Merli found himself inexplicably catapulted to national stardom. Very similar to how Terence Hill found his niche in comedies after being discovered out of the crowd of Nero stand-ins , Maurizio Merli established himself as the leading man in the Italian crime film genre of the period . Over the brief span from 1975-1979, Merli starred in no less than a dozen crime films from the likes of noted Italian directors Umberto Lenzi , Stelvio Massi, and Fernando Di Leo including such classics as Naples violenta (1976) , and From Corleone to Brooklyn (1978) . Merli also followed Nero's footsteps once again in the Keoma-inspired Mannaja .From there, Maurizio began acting in others genres until his early death at 49 . Unlike fellow Spaghetti star Franco Nero or Clint Eastwood, however, Maurizio never became a top international box-office attraction . Mannaja is a thrilling western with screenplay by the notorious Scavolini and Sergio Martino himself , including a breathtaking confrontation between the protagonist Maurizio Merli against the heartless John Steiner and his hoodlums . Exciting Spaghetti Western and it is proceeded in violent style and ordinary narration . The film packs thrills , gunplay and high body-count ; it's fast moving , quite entertaining and including bursting with explosive violence . Here appears familiar faces from Macaroni Western such as : Donald O'Brien , Rik Battaglia , Enzo Fiermonte , Antonio Casale and special mention for Philippe Leroy as the wheelchair bound mayor McGowan and the extremely baddie John Steiner as co-starring playing the corrupt and sadistic associate.

    Good production design creating an acceptable scenario with muddy outdoors, rocky landscapes from Campo Imperatore, L'Aquila, Abruzzo in the Stagecoach/Horse Riding scenes , Lazio , Rome and interiors in Elios studios . Adequate and atomspheric cinematography by Federico Zanni. Nice and sensitive musical score by Guido and Maurizio De Angelis , furthermore , catching and emotive songs performed by Cesare De Natale as Dandylion. Mannaja was competently directed by the prolific filmmaker Sergio Martino who usually uses pseudonym as Martin Dolman . Talented and versatile writer/director Sergio Martino has made a vast array of often solid and entertaining films in all kind of genres as horror, Giallo , comedy, Western , and science fiction in a career that spans over 40 years . He was especially expert on Western as proved in ¨Mannaja¨ and this ¨Arizona returns¨ and Giallo such as ¨The case of scorpion's tail ¨ , ¨Torso¨ ,¨the scorpion with two tails¨ , ¨The strange vice of Mrs Ward¨ , Cannibal movie as "Mountain of the Cannibal God", Italian crime thrillers as "Violent Professionals" and ¨Sci-Fi as ¨Destroyer¨ , "2019: After the Fall of New York" . Rating: 7/10 , above average Spaghetti , this is a great Ravioli Western in which the camera stalks in moving style throughout a story with decent visual skills . This is a bewildering story , enjoyable as well as violent , and it will appeal to Spaghetti hardcore fans .
    8Witchfinder-General-666

    A Blade In The Gut

    One of the later Spaghetti Westerns, and often compared to Enzo G. Castellari's "Keoma" from 1976, Sergio Martino's "Mannaja" aka. "A Man Called Blade" is a very stylish, and pretty brutal movie with some minor flaws. The comparisons to Keoma are quite plausible indeed, Mannaja was made only one year after Keoma, both soundtracks were composed by Maurizio and Guido De Angelis, and the leading actor Maurizio Merli actually looks a lot like the great Franco Nero, who played the title role in Keoma. It is often stated that Maurizio Merli only got bigger roles due to his resemblance to Franco Nero. Anyway, Merli's performance as Mannaja is great. Comparing Mannaja to Keoma, Mannaja had a smaller budget, but it makes up for this with graphic violence and genuine nastiness. The performances in Mannaja are great, even though it's pretty hard to come up to Franco Nero, Woody Strode and William Berger. The music composed by the De Angelis Brothers, which some folks seem to have disliked in "Keoma" (I'm not one of them), actually fits into Mannaja very well.

    Mannaja, an occasional bounty hunter and gunslinger who is fast with both his gun and his tomahawk, comes to a small town to collect the reward for a bandit he has caught. The town, which doesn't have a Sheriff, is ruled by an aging rich landowner named Mc Gowan, who treats the laborers at his silver mine like animals. Mc Gowan's right hand man, a ruthless killer named Voller, however, even makes his boss look like a nice guy in his sadism and unscrupulousness.

    Mannaja has, apart from its resemblances to Keoma, many resemblances to earlier Spaghetti Westerns. Mannaja's back-flashes, for example, remind of movies like Sergio Corbucci's "The Great Silence", or Sergio Leone's "Once Upon A Time In The West". Since these resemblances are only occasional, however, they don't make the movie worse. The performances are good, I especially liked John Steiner as the villainous Voller and Maurizio Merli as Mannaja. The character of Mannaja (according to the movie 'Mannaja' means 'blade' in a Native American language) is generally very cool, the fact that he kills with his tomahawk as frequently as with his gun (if not more frequently), makes the whole movie very stylish. All things considered, Maurizio Merli, who is best known for his roles in ultraviolent Italian crime flicks, is probably not as versatile an actor as Franco Nero, but he definitely made a great Mannaja. A nasty, ultra-violent and gripping Spaghetti Western, "Mannaja" is a must see for genre-fans!

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    • Trivia
      The reason the exteriors have so much fog and smoke was because the filmmakers were trying to hide the fact that the studio, Elios Studio near Rome, needed to be renovated.
    • Errores
      In the opening sequence the man captured screams and you can clearly see his modern fillings.
    • Citas

      Valler: Who are you?

      Mannaja: Those who know me call me Blade. Because I've got a habit of letting this do my talking for me.

    • Versiones alternativas
      UK versions are cut by 6 secs by the BBFC to remove footage of horsefalls.
    • Conexiones
      Featured in The Spaghetti West (2005)
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      Written by Guido De Angelis & Fabrizio De Angelis

      Performed by Cesare De Natale (as Dandylion)

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      • 13 de agosto de 1977 (Italia)
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      • A Man Called Blade
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Campo Imperatore, L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italia(Stagecoach / Horse Riding Scenes)
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      • Devon Film
      • Medusa Distribuzione
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