Edward Dmytryk - Alvarez Kelly (1966) [DVD5 PAL]

Edward Dmytryk - Alvarez Kelly (1966) [DVD5 PAL]


Original title Alvarez Kelly
Country of manufacture United States of America
Year 1966
Duration 116 min
Western genre
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Subject Franklin Coen
Screenplay Franklin Coen, Daniel Taradash, Eliott Arnold
Producer Ray David Productions Inc.
Distribution in Italian C.E.I.A.D. (1967)
Photography Joe MacDonald
Editing Harold F. Kress
Music Johnny Green
Set design Walter M. Simonds


Interpreters and characters

William Holden: Alvarez Kelly
Richard Widmark: Colonel Tom Rossiter
Janice Rule: Liz Pickering
Patrick O'Neal: Major Albert Stedman
Victoria Shaw: Charity Warwick
Roger C. Carmel: Captain Angus Ferguson
Richard Rust: Sergeant Hatcher
Arthur Franz: Captain Towers
Donald Barry: Lieutenant Farrow
Duke Hobbie: John Beaurider
Harry Carey Jr .: Corporal Peterson
Howard Caine: McIntyre
Mauritz Hugo: Ely Harrison
Barry Atwater: General Kautz (credited as G.B. Atwater)
Robert Morgan: Captain Williams
Paul Lukather: Captain Webster
Stephanie Hill: Mary Ann
Indus Arthur: Melinda
Clint Ritchie: Union lieutenant

Language: English Italian French Spanish German
Subtitles: Italian French Spanish Dutch Swedish Norwegian Danish


Alvarez Kelly is a 1966 film directed by Edward Dmytryk, based on a historical fact that really happened (the Beefsteak Raid of September 1864)
During the American Civil War, Alvarez Kelly, a cow farmer, sells his herd to the Northerners but along the way he and his herd are "hijacked" by a Southern department led by Colonel Rossiter. The Northerners under Major Stedman chase them but the first manage to reach their destination, Richmond, the besieged and starving city. But in the end Alvarez Kelly "blows" the colonel's girlfriend.