Stranger in Sacramento

Stranger in Sacramento or Uno straniero a Sacramento is a 1965 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Bergonzelli. It was based on the novel I Will Kill You Tomorrow by Jim Murphy.

Uno straniero a Sacramento
Directed by	Sergio Bergonzelli
Written by	Sergio Bergonzelli
Story by	Jim Murphy (novel)
Starring	Mickey Hargitay
Cinematography	Bitto Albertini
Music by	Felice Di Stefano
Release date	1965 (1965)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Cast

• Mickey Hargitay as Mike Jordan
• Enrico Bomba as Chris (as Steve Saint-Claire)
• Mario Lanfranchi as Mill (as Johnny Jordan)
• Giulio Marchetti as Sheriff Joe (as James Hill)
• Florencia Silvero as Lisa (as Flo Silver)
• Barbara Frey as Rona Barret
• Big Matthews (as Big I. Matthews)
• Gia Sandri
• Luciano Benetti as Deputy sheriff (as Lucky Bennett)
• Gabriella Giorgelli as Rosa (saloon dancer)
• Ariel Brown
• Renato Chiantoni
• Franco Gulà
• Romano Giomini
• Julián Marcos

Plot

During a cattle drive, Mike Jordan finds his father and brothers murdered and the herd stolen. He is met with suspicion by the local sheriff and the population. Eventually, Mike is able to expose the rancher Barret as the perpetrator. He is assisted by Lisa, Barret's former sister-in-law, and Chris, a wanted horse thief.

Reception

In his investigation of narrative structures in Spaghetti Western films, Fridlund discusses Stranger in Sacramento among films that mix some characters, motifs and plots well known from American traditional Westerns with others usual in Spaghetti Westerns. For example, Mike Jordan is close to the typical American Western hero, while Chris is more like Joe in A Fistful of Dollars.^[1]