Sabata

1969 106 min ★ 6.3 Western

Several pillars of society have robbed an Army safe containing $100,000 so they can buy the land upon which the coming railroad will be built. But they haven't reckoned on the presence of the master gunslinger, Sabata.

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Cast

Lee Van Cleef

Sabata

William Berger

Banjo

Ignazio Spalla

Carrincha

Aldo Canti

Indio

Franco Ressel

Stengel

Antonio Gradoli

Ferguson

Linda Veras

Jane

Claudio Undari

Oswald

Gianni Rizzo

Judge O'Hara

Spartaco Conversi

Slim

Details

Director

Gianfranco Parolini

Screenplay

Gianfranco Parolini

Tagline

"The man with gunsight eyes comes to kill!"

Status

Released

Original Language

IT

Production

PEA, United Artists

Reviews

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Wuchak

March 22, 2018

★ 5/10

Spaghetti Western with Lee Van Cleef in the mold of Sergio Leone’s Man with No Name trilogy. RELEASED IN 1969 and directed by Gianfranco Parolini, “Sabata” chronicles events in a west Texas town when a black-clad gunfighter named Sabata (Lee Van Cleef) teams-up with an alcoholic ex-soldier named Carrincha (Ignazio Spalla) and an acrobatic Indian (Bruno Ukmar) to thwart the town leaders (Antonio...

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John Chard

June 25, 2019

★ 7/10

He's the man with the gunsight eyes! Sabata is directed by Gianfranco Parolini (AKA: Frank Kramer) and Parolini co-writes the screenplay with Renato Izzo. It stars Lee Van Cleef, William Berger, Ignazio Spalla, Aldo Canti, Franco Ressel and Antonio Gradoli. Music is by Marcello Giombini and the Technicope/technicolor cinematography is by Sadro Mancori. Ace marksman Sabata (Cleef) teams up wi...

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CinemaSerf

February 15, 2026

★ 7/10

This isn’t so much a spaghetti western as a ravioli one. It’s full of lots of individually wrapped escapades that allow Lee Van Cleef to don his black suit and play a lovely game of cat and mouse with some quite shrewd townsfolk. It all starts when the army deposit $100,000 in the town’s bank. Barely half an hour after it is locked up for the night, the safe is on the back of a wagon heading out i...