The Silent Stranger

The Silent Stranger
Theatrical release poster
Directed byVance Lewis
Screenplay byVincenzo Cerami
Giancarlo Ferrando
Story byTony Anthony
Produced byTony Anthony
Allen Klein
StarringTony Anthony
Lloyd Battista
CinematographyMario Capriotti
Edited byRenzo Lucidi
Music byStelvio Cipriani
Production
companies
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • 20 June 1975 (1975-06-20)
Running time
92 minutes
CountriesItaly
United States
Japan
LanguagesItalian
English
Japanese

The Silent Stranger (Italian: Lo straniero di silenzio), also known as The Horseman and the Samurai and The Stranger in Japan, is a 1968 Spaghetti Western jidaigeki film directed by Luigi Vanzi. It is the second sequel to A Stranger in Town, with twenty minutes excised for its 1975 release. The film is the third in a series of four western films starring Tony Anthony as "The Stranger". Despite being produced in 1968 for MGM, the film was never given an official release until 1975, nearly a decade after the previous film in the series.[1] Tony Anthony stated that he believed the film became the victim of a power struggle at MGM,[2] and the film was re-edited when it was later released by a different studio.[2]

  1. ^ Marco Giusti (2007). Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. pp. 157–158. ISBN 978-88-04-57277-0.
  2. ^ a b The SWDb. "The Silent Stranger – The Full Story - The Spaghetti Western Database". Spaghetti-western.net. Retrieved 2021-06-14.

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