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Plot summary
Tom Corbett, a prospector, hears from a family friend, Carradine, who asks him to come home to Laramie at once. Years earlier, his widowed mother left her house and land to his brother Jeff and wanted Tom kept away from the town. Tom takes his leave of Murray, his foreman, and sets out. The house he grew up in stands in ruins, and two thugs tell him the land belongs to Mr. Scott, warning him about the Scott sign, an S stamped onto a J. That sign is on every building in town, and Jason Scott rides the square with his son Junior and a pack of thugs. Tom finds Jeff drinking in a shack outside town with their old housemaid Mercedes, and both urge him to go.
Cast
- Franco Moruzzi
- Tchang Yuas Undertaker
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Massacre Time (1966)
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- Massacre Time was to be an Italian-Spanish co-production with Ringo co-star George Martin as Tom Corbett, but the Spanish backers pulled their involvement and funding after Lucio Fulci refused to tone down the script's violence, so Martin never took the part.
- Lucio Fulci claimed he pushed screenwriter Fernando Di Leo to make Massacre Time as violent as possible; Di Leo denied it, saying Fulci only directed well what was already on the page and that the script was good and ready.
- After deciding to shoot entirely in Italy on a lower budget, Lucio Fulci cast Franco Nero as Tom Corbett on the suggestion of assistant director Giovanni Fago, who had seen production stills from Nero's Django.
- Fernando Di Leo, who had co-written A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, A Pistol for Ringo and The Return of Ringo, wrote Massacre Time mainly himself: it was his first solo screenplay credit, with Enzo Dell'Aquila and Lucio Fulci contributing uncredited work.
