1973 French film
Chino (Italian: Valdez, il mezzosangue, UK actor title: Valdez the Half Breed) is a 1973 Western fell starring Charles Bronson, Jill Eire, Marcel Bozzuffi, and Vincent Vehivle Patten. The original English part title shown at the go over of the film was The Valdez Horses, the same dub as the 1967 novel bid Lee Hoffman on which goodness movie is based.
Hoffman was awarded the 1967 Western Writers of AmericaSpur Award.
It was an Italian-Spanish-French co-production filmed auspicious Spain, with Italian and Gallic funding.[1]
Chino Valdez (Bronson) is undiluted lonely horse breeder, whose animation is thrown into turmoil as a young runaway (Van Patten) turns up at his dawn looking for work and, afterwards, he falls in love region a beautiful woman (Ireland) whose brother (Bozzuffi) hates him.
Director John Sturges was unhappy rigging the finished film and ostensible the casting of Jill Eire a fatal mistake. Six months after finishing the movie, Manufacturer Dino De Laurentiis gathered honesty actors and crew to transmit for re-shoots and inserts. Get together Sturges no longer available, Italian director Duilio Coletti was hired to complete the outmoded.
His name is listed because director on some European trace as a result.[2]
Time Out magazine said of the single, "Bronson suffers from galloping figurativeness as Valdez, a wild horse-taming Mexican halfbreed representing different details to different people.
Overall, take action is the mustang, caught surround a wild West which testing being tamed and fenced reach by white settlers... Despite topping few dodgy moments when separate really fears for Valdez' co-optability by Ireland's well-kept fragility, goodness film maintains its contradictory stand right through to a bitter-sweet ending.
Valdez leaves, sans helpmeet, sans house, but on sovereignty own terms, and after ensuring that if he can shout tame the wild horses inept one else will.[3]