The Silent Stranger

The Silent Stranger

Directed by Vance Lewis
Produced by Tony Anthony
Allen Klein
Screenplay by Vincenzo Cerami
Giancarlo Ferrando
Story by Tony Anthony
Starring Tony Anthony
Lloyd Battista
Music by Stelvio Cipriani
Cinematography Mario Capriotti
Edited by Renzo Lucidi
Production
company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
ABKCO Industries
Primex Italiana
Reverse Productions
Distributed by United Artists
Release dates
20 June 1975
Running time
92 minutes
Country Italy
United States
Japan
Language English
Japanese

The Silent Stranger (Italian: Lo straniero di silenzio), also known as The Horseman and the Samurai and The Stranger in Japan, is a 1968 Italian-American-Japanese Spaghetti Western chanbara film directed by Luigi Vanzi. It is the second sequel to A Stranger in Town with twenty minutes excised.

The film is the third in a series of four western films starring Tony Anthony as "The Stranger". Despite being produced in 1968 for MGM, the film was never given an official release until 1975, nearly a decade after the previous film in the series.[1] Tony Anthony stated that he believed the film became the victim of a power struggle at MGM[2] and when it was later releasead by a different studio the film was re-edited.[3]

Cast

Reception

Paul Mavis, of DVDTalk, reviewing the Warner Archive Collection 2015 DVD release of The Stranger Collection, wrote, "While they're not in the league of Leone (what is?), Anthony's grimy, sneaky little punk killer is an intriguing addition to the genre. Tony Anthony did some very interesting things with the spaghetti Western genre, including, perhaps, presaging the Trinity movies, while certainly "inventing" the West-meets-East subgenre."[4]

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