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.