Day of Anger

Original title: I giorni dell'ira

1967
M
1h 51m

IMDb RATING

7.1/10

5.8K

YOUR RATING

A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of a famed gunfighter, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman becomes unhinged and overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption.

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A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of a famed gunfighter, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption.A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of a famed gunfighter, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption.A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of a famed gunfighter, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption.

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IMDb RATING

7.1/10

5.8K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Around the 27-minute mark Lee Van Cleef's character Talby walks through a street with white buildings. This is the exact same set seen in For a Few Dollars More (1964). also starring Van Cleef (and Clint Eastwood). The particular scene in this film is also shot from the exact same perspective and angle as in "For a Few Dollars More" when Eastwood's character has a short stand-off with three Mexican gunslingers.

Goofs
When Scott gees his horse to go after Talby in the English version, his yells are simply reused from the Italian version (despite their two voice actors sounding very different).

Quotes
Frank Talby: Third lesson: never get between a gun and its target.

Connections
Edited into The Writer (2012)

Soundtracks
It's Time To Go
(uncredited)
Composed by Riz Ortolani
Performed by Christa Linder

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Featured review

7/10

A Great Teenage Memory

One of my favorite teen memories surrounds the film "Day of Anger." I saw it at the El Rey Theatre in Walnut Creek, California in 1972 as part of a double feature with "Superfly." Don't ask me how that match-up was booked, but I went with a couple of friends and thanks to the new release paired with it, the place was nearly packed. Old school singleplex with 1000 or so seats. Everyone was hushed and into the story until Lee Van Cleef stomped into the scraggly bar in the scraggly village, banged on the wooden plank serving as the bar and demanded: "Get me Wild Jack!" For a moment the theater remained hushed. Then, from a few rows behind us, a guy yelled out "WILD JACK! What kinda name is that?" Suddenly taken by the over-the-top melodrama, the crowd turned the whole experience on its end and started howling at what now seemed to be a self-referential satire on the spaghetti western genre. Of course I didn't think in such high-falutin' terminology at the time, I just thought it was funny. With all due respect to serious aficianados of the genre, it was just one fun night. One of the guys I went with suggested that we go back and repeat the astonished "WILD JACK!" comment the next night, but we figured, I think rightly, that you had to be there, it was a one shot thing, with perfect timing that had us laughing too hard to take it seriously when poor Scott Mary finally had his day in the sun and finished off his mentor while reciting the final rule of the gunfighter.