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.

Cast

Mickey Hargitay as Mike Jordan
Enrico Bomba as Chris
Mario Lanfranchi as Mill
Giulio Marchetti as Sheriff Joe
Florencia Silvero as Lisa
Barbara Frey as Rona Barret
Big Matthews
Gia Sandri
Luciano Benetti as Deputy sheriff
Gabriella Giorgelli as Rosa
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.