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Mannaja
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Mannaja (also known as A Man Called Blade) is an Italian 1977 spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Martino. The main role, Blade, is played by Maurizio Merli. Other central roles are played by: John Steiner, Sonja Jeannine, Donald O'Brien, Philippe Leroy and Martine Brochard.
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6.6Maurizio Merli stars as a hatchet-wielding bounty hunter with a dark past and an even more desperate future. But when he disrupts the balance of power in a corrupt mining town, he unleashes a firestorm of brutality, betrayal and cold-blooded murder. Now, one man stalks a savage land where justice walks a razor and no bullets slice deeper than vengeance. He is A MAN CALLED BLADE.
Cast
- Maurizio Merli as Mannaja
- John Steiner as Valler
- Philippe Leroy as McGowan
- Sonja Jeannine as Deborah McGowan
- Salvatore Puntillo as Johnny Johnny
- Enzo Fiermonte as The government Envoy
Themes
- bounty hunter
- spaghetti western
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Key facts
- Film.name
- Mannaja
- Film.image
- Mannaja (Film 1977).jpg
- Film.caption
- Italian theatrical release poster
- Film.director
- Sergio Martino
- Film.producer
- Luciano Martino
- Film.screenplay
- Sauro ScavoliniSergio Martino
- Film.story
- Sergio Martino
- Film.music
- Guido & Maurizio De Angelis
- Film.cinematography
- Federico Zanni
- Film.editing
- Eugenio Alabiso
- Film.studio
- Devon FilmMedusa Distribuzione
- Film.distributor
- Medusa Distribuzione
- Film.runtime
- 101 minutes
- Film.country
- Italy
- Film.language
- Italian
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 101
- FilmAffinity ID
- 285022
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- publication date
- 1980-01-02
- title
- Mannaja
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8 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Cast
- Music
- Release
- Reception
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Mannaja (also known as A Man Called Blade) is an Italian 1977 spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Martino. The main role, Blade, is played by Maurizio Merli. Other central roles are played by: John Steiner, Sonja Jeannine, Donald O'Brien, Philippe Leroy and Martine Brochard.
==Plot== Bounty hunter Blade (Maurizio Merli), who uses a tomahawk as a throwing weapon, arrives at the mining town of Suttonville with the outlaw Burt Craven (Donald O'Brien) as his prisoner. His real motive is to kill mining big boss McGowan (Philippe Leroy) who has killed his father. Blade gives up his revenge – because McGowan "is not worth it" – and instead accepts to deliver the ransom for the mine owner's daughter (Sonja Jeannine). However, this mission fails because she turns out to be the lover of her kidnapper, McGowan's foreman Voller (John Steiner), who secretly works for a gang that regularly robs the shipments of silver from the mine. Voller then kills his boss and turns his mining empire into bloody chaos by massacring the mine workers. Blade is beaten up and buried up to his neck and left to be blinded by the sun. However, he survives and returns for a showdown with Voller.