Spaghetti Western: A Man Called Blade - A bounty hunter arrives in a mining town and is hired to track down the missing daughter of the town's crippled mayor and learns she has been kidnapped by the mayor's corrupt right-hand-man and a band of outlaws he is secretly working for.

A Man Called Blade (1977)
Director: Sergio Martino
Writers: Sergio Martino (story), Sauro Scavolini (screenplay)
Stars: Maurizio Merli, John Steiner, Sonja Jeannine
Country: Italy
Language: English
Release Date: 13 August 1977 Italy
Also Known As: Das Beil des Todes
Filming Locations: Campo Imperatore, L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy

Storyline:
"Arriving in the mining town Suttonville, after claiming the bounty of a outlaw known as Burt Craven, a bounty hunter named Blade (armed with a hatchet instead of a gun) is hired by the town's wheelchair bound mayor McGowan and his corrupt associate Voller to track down McGowan's daughter Debra who has gone missing. Blade is unaware that Voller kidnapped Debra and is secretly working for a group of outlaws who are looting shipment of silver from the silver mines that are run the mine owner McGregor. Caught up in Suttonville's affairs, Blade not only has Voller and the outlaws to deal with, he also goes to settle a score with McGowan (who was responsible for the death of Blade's father) and takes on Voller and his gang who are out to gun him down." Written by Daniel Williamson on IMDb.com

Reviews:
"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!

If you are a fan of movies that are as much art as film, then you should love Italian cinema!" Written by charley-54 on IMDb.com

"In the early 70s, Spaghetti Westerns were going through a dry spell. Countless crappy parody films had flooded the market and strangled the life out of the genre. Then Italian crime maestro and occasional Spaghetti director Enzo G. Castellari came along and directed the psychedelic, action-packed masterpiece "Keoma". Gone was the cynicism and nihilism that seperated early Spaghettis from American Westerns. Instead there was an injection of emotion. The silent hero of the past was now a heartfelt warrior who wasn't above crying in between bouts of ass-kicking. Needless to say, it revived the genre briefly and led to a few knock-offs. "Mannaja" is probably the most obvious with it's similar visual style and music score, but Sergio Martino's keen visual sense (though not as good as Castellari's) and Maurizio Merli's excellent performance allow the film to stand on it's own two legs. There's a lot of well-staged slow motion shootouts and a fistfight in the mud here and there, along with an interesting if not compelling plotline. All in all, this is a great knock-off that has just enough originality to be a good stand-alone piece. Recommended." Written by Samoan Bob on IMDb.com

Also Known As (AKA)
(original title) Mannaja
Argentina Un hombre llamado hacha
Brazil Mannaja - Um Homem Chamado Blade
Brazil Um Homem Chamado Mannaja
Bulgaria (Bulgarian title) Секирата
Colombia Un hombre llamado hacha
Denmark (DVD title) Mannaja - A Man Called Blade
Finland (DVD title) Mannaja
Finland (video title) Mannaya
France Mannaja, l'homme à la hache
Germany (DVD title) Das Beil des Todes
Greece (reissue title) Me fonazan Tsekouri
Greece (transliterated title) O kavallaris me to tsekouri
Norway Blade, menneskejegeren
Portugal Mannaja, O Cavaleiro Solitário
Soviet Union (Russian title) Маннайя
Spain Mannaja (El valle de la muerte)
Sweden (video title) Mannen med köttyxan
USA A Man Called Blade
West Germany Mannaja - Das Beil des Todes

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