Directing

Alberto Cardone

Born — Died

1920-09-16 — 1977-10-20

Place of birth

Genova, Liguria, Italy

Known for

Directing

Credits

15 titles

Alberto Cardone (1920–1977) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, second unit director and film editor of the 1960s. Cardone is best known for his Spaghetti Western films of the 1960s. He is best known for directing the films Seven Dollars on the Red, One Thousand Dollars on the Black (1966) and Twenty Thousand Dollars for Seven (1969). In many of his films he worked with actor Anthony Steffen. Source: Article "Alberto Cardone" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known for

$1,000 on the Black poster
5.1

Johnny Liston has just been released from prison where he has wrongly served twelve years for a murder. He returns to Campos, the village of his birth, where the whole town is terrorized by Johnny's brother, Sartana, who has taken Manuela, Johnny's fiancèe to be his lover. With his only friend a mute, Johnny must seize all opportunity to find out why he was framed, who was involved and why he is not welcome. source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net

$1,000 on the Black

1966

Fasthand poster
6.1

Macedo, bloodthirsty leader of a gang of Confederates shoots the captain of the Northerners, Jeff Mallighan, known as "Fast Hand", shattering his right hand. Jeff, wounded on the ground, could not see the face of the villain, but his silver spurs have stuck in his mind as well as his unique gun. Some time after this event Macedo continues with his misdeeds, however, a mysterious horseman dressed in black will stand in his way.

Fasthand

1973

Wrath of God poster
4.3

Mike returns home in order to leave his gunfighting days behind him and settle down on a farm with his old sweetheart but things do not go as planned. Finding Jane murdered, Mike is set upon and left for dead by her 7 killers who also steal his life savings of $10,000; all in $50 dollar bills. They leave only seven dollars and Mike vows to track down every man, paying him back with a solitary dollar and death.

Wrath of God

1968

The Long Day of the Massacre poster
5.2

When sheriff Joe Williams is unjustly accused of the murder of a young couple, which was in reality committed by the Mexican "La Muerte", Joe becomes a wanted man. Joe manages to steal and hide the loot from a bank robbery committed by the Mexican gang, but then is captured by them, but the new sheriff, Joe's friend, is on their trail.

The Long Day of the Massacre

1968

20,000 Dollars on 7 poster
6.0

A young man comes to town to find the killer of his older brother. Aided by his two sidekicks and a bag containing $20,000 as bait, he hopes to draw out the gang and their leader, the suspected killer.

20,000 Dollars on 7

1967

Seven Dollars on Red poster
4.9

A little boy is abducted by ruthless bandit gang leader El Cachal after Cachal and his men butcher the boy's family with the exception of his father. Johnny Ashley, the gunslinger father of the boy, goes searching for his son. Alas, the boy has grown up to be a mean and vicious criminal.

Seven Dollars on Red

1966

Behind the camera

$1,000 on the Black poster
5.1

Johnny Liston has just been released from prison where he has wrongly served twelve years for a murder. He returns to Campos, the village of his birth, where the whole town is terrorized by Johnny's brother, Sartana, who has taken Manuela, Johnny's fiancèe to be his lover. With his only friend a mute, Johnny must seize all opportunity to find out why he was framed, who was involved and why he is not welcome. source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net

$1,000 on the Black

1966

Fasthand poster
6.1

Macedo, bloodthirsty leader of a gang of Confederates shoots the captain of the Northerners, Jeff Mallighan, known as "Fast Hand", shattering his right hand. Jeff, wounded on the ground, could not see the face of the villain, but his silver spurs have stuck in his mind as well as his unique gun. Some time after this event Macedo continues with his misdeeds, however, a mysterious horseman dressed in black will stand in his way.

Fasthand

1973

Wrath of God poster
4.3

Mike returns home in order to leave his gunfighting days behind him and settle down on a farm with his old sweetheart but things do not go as planned. Finding Jane murdered, Mike is set upon and left for dead by her 7 killers who also steal his life savings of $10,000; all in $50 dollar bills. They leave only seven dollars and Mike vows to track down every man, paying him back with a solitary dollar and death.

Wrath of God

1968

Wrath of God poster
4.3

Mike returns home in order to leave his gunfighting days behind him and settle down on a farm with his old sweetheart but things do not go as planned. Finding Jane murdered, Mike is set upon and left for dead by her 7 killers who also steal his life savings of $10,000; all in $50 dollar bills. They leave only seven dollars and Mike vows to track down every man, paying him back with a solitary dollar and death.

Wrath of God

1968

The Long Day of the Massacre poster
5.2

When sheriff Joe Williams is unjustly accused of the murder of a young couple, which was in reality committed by the Mexican "La Muerte", Joe becomes a wanted man. Joe manages to steal and hide the loot from a bank robbery committed by the Mexican gang, but then is captured by them, but the new sheriff, Joe's friend, is on their trail.

The Long Day of the Massacre

1968

The Long Day of the Massacre poster
5.2

When sheriff Joe Williams is unjustly accused of the murder of a young couple, which was in reality committed by the Mexican "La Muerte", Joe becomes a wanted man. Joe manages to steal and hide the loot from a bank robbery committed by the Mexican gang, but then is captured by them, but the new sheriff, Joe's friend, is on their trail.

The Long Day of the Massacre

1968

20,000 Dollars on 7 poster
6.0

A young man comes to town to find the killer of his older brother. Aided by his two sidekicks and a bag containing $20,000 as bait, he hopes to draw out the gang and their leader, the suspected killer.

20,000 Dollars on 7

1967

Seven Dollars on Red poster
4.9

A little boy is abducted by ruthless bandit gang leader El Cachal after Cachal and his men butcher the boy's family with the exception of his father. Johnny Ashley, the gunslinger father of the boy, goes searching for his son. Alas, the boy has grown up to be a mean and vicious criminal.

Seven Dollars on Red

1966

Where Are You Taking That Woman poster
7.4

A lady killer tracked by the police, takes refuge at a psychiatrist's home, and the doctor tells him three stories, to convince him that crime does not pay

Where Are You Taking That Woman

1966

Twenty Thousand Dollars for Seven poster
6.7

Fred Leinster, an alcoholic ex-sheriff, is paid to collect a ransom for the kidnapping of a young boy. When he finds out the particulars of the crime he turns the tables on the outlaws.

Twenty Thousand Dollars for Seven

1969

Twenty Thousand Dollars for Seven poster
6.7

Fred Leinster, an alcoholic ex-sheriff, is paid to collect a ransom for the kidnapping of a young boy. When he finds out the particulars of the crime he turns the tables on the outlaws.

Twenty Thousand Dollars for Seven

1969

Serenade for Two Spies poster
6.2

An international gang of gun dealers in the USA has stolen the prototype of a laser rifle from a German laboratory. The FBI agent Cormoran is being sent to recover the state-of-the-art and highly effective weapon. But there are some indications that he has defected to the enemy. Since agent 007 is currently on another mission, the chief of intelligence has to fall back on his second best man, the previous number 006. And so the German secret agent John Krim is given the assignment to get the rifle back, find evidence of Cormoran’s treachery and finally eliminate the colleague. Krim’s journey takes him across the ocean, and there he experiences incredible adventures in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Two women get in his way, and Krim can’t be sure whether he can trust them or whether they too are working for the other side.

Serenade for Two Spies

1965

Bruna, Shapely, Seeks Gifted poster
3.3

Sex comedy.

Bruna, Shapely, Seeks Gifted

1975

I Am... Woman poster
8.0

A Rare Weird Spy-Story exposed to the breath of Zeitgeist (avant-garde theater), a long psychedelic breakaway under the shade of a feminist conspiracy instead of the usual nuclear weapons to conquer the world.

I Am... Woman

1971

I Am... Woman poster
8.0

A Rare Weird Spy-Story exposed to the breath of Zeitgeist (avant-garde theater), a long psychedelic breakaway under the shade of a feminist conspiracy instead of the usual nuclear weapons to conquer the world.

I Am... Woman

1971