A brash young gunman named Reese (Pierre Brice) shows up in Glory City with some disturbing news for the town fathers.
He’s killed a man named Deakes, a man scheduled to be a star performer in the town’s annual July 4 gunfight.
Reese rides out of Glory, vowing to return by the 4th. He meets up with Clint Brenner (Rex Barker) on the trail.
Both wind up in a town ruled by Jack Villaine and his hired gunman.
Right now, Villaine is most disturbed by a rancher named Seth Grande, who insists on letting homesteaders settle on his property.
Grande’s daughter — Brenner’s former lover — lives with Villaine to protect her father.
Reluctantly, but inevitably, Brenner and Reese are pulled into the fray.
Will they survive for their scheduled July 4 showdown in Glory City? And who will still be standing if they do?
Lex Barker as Clint Brenner in A Place Called Glory (1965)
Pierre Brice as Reese in A Place Called Glory (1965)
Review:
Well done Spaghetti Western, even if Brice’s accent makes the dialogue tough to follow early in the film. The director takes his time forging a relationship between Reese and Brenner. In fact, they’re downright suspicious of one another at first.
And Marianne Koch has an interesting role as the woman caught in the middle. She won’t leave Villaine, because she fears what he might do to her father if she did. And even the young gunfighter in town finds himself drawn to the dark-haired beauty.
There’s also a nice score score from Angel Arteaga, arranged by Bruno Nicolai.
Marianne Koch as Jade Grande in A Place Called Glory (1965)
Gerard Tichy as Jack Villaine in A Place Called Glory (1965)
Directed by:
Sheldon Brown
Cast:
Lex Barker … Clint Brenner
Pierre Brice … Reese
Gerard Tichy … Jack Villaine
George Rigaud … Seth Grande
Marianne Koch … Jade Grande
Angel del Pozo … Josh
Aldo Sambrell … Jake
Victor Isreal … Hotel clerk
Carlos Casaravilla … Judge Richter
Santiago Ontanon … Mayor
Runtime: 93 min.
Also with: Antonio Molino Rojo, Wolfgan Lukschy, Hans Nielsen, Alfonso Rojas, Alberto Dalbes, Miguel Angel Gil, Luis Barboo, Roberto Martin, Angel Menendez, Gaspar Gonzalez, Moises Augusto Rocha
aka:
Glory City
Place Called Glory City
Holle von Manitobe, Die
Die Holle von Manitoba
Score: Angel Arteaga
George Rigaud as Seth Grande in A Place Called Glory (1965)
Aldo Sambrell as Jake in A Place Called Glory (1965)
Memorable lines:
Jade Grande, after being slapped by Jack Villaine: “That’s the last time.”
Villaine slaps her again, harder: “There ain’t no last time for anything.”
Hotel clerk to Reese, upon informing him he plans to bet on Brenner, not Deakes. “You ever seen Deakes?”
Reese, who killed Deakes: “He’ll never stand up against Brenner.”
Jade Grande, upon her reunion with Brenner after eight long years: “You could have waited another place.”
Brenner: “Maybe I just wanted to take a look at yesterday.”
Jade: “I lot of things have changed since yesterday.”
Jade Grande: “You haven’t changed much, Clint.”
Clint Brenner: “I’m not sure that’s a compliment.”
Santiago Ontanon as mayor of Glory City and Carlos Casaravilla as Judge Richter in A Place Called Glory (1965)
Victor Israel as hotel clerk in A Place Called Glory (1965)
Trivia:
Director Sheldon Reynolds would become better known for directing the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes television series in Britain.
Supposedly, this is the only Spaghetti Western to employ a female cinematographer, Teresa Alcocer.
Marianne Koch as Jade Grande with Gerard Tichy as Jack Villaine in A Place Called Glory (1965)
Pierre Brice as Reese and Lex Barker as Clint Brenner in A Place Called Glory (1965)
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