Other Characters
Following his Sartana film, Parolini made two Westerns with a hero named Sabata. Like Sartana, Sabata wears a suit and uses trick weapons. He is money-motivated and confronts a similar set up of adversaries. Fittingly enough, Sabata is played by Lee Van Cleef, who did Col Mortimer in For a Few Dollars More. Another Parolini Western, Indio Black, was titled Adiós, Sabata outside Italy. This hero is played by Yul Brynner, and wears other types of clothes, but in terms of plots and situations the film is very close to Parolini's Sabata films. In fact, a "Sabata" character (played by Charles Southwood) dressed, immaculately of course, in a white (!) suit appears in the last Carnimeo Sartana vehicle, Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin.
Carnimeo and Garko also did They Call Him Cemetery (Italian: Gli fumavano le colt….lo chiamavano Camposanto) and His Name Was Holy Ghost (Italian: Uomo avvisato, mezzo ammazzato… parola di Spirito Santo), where heroes and stories have several things in common with the original Sartana films. Carnimeo and Hilton did two films with a hero called Halleluja and two more with a hero called Tresette. These characters were based on Hilton's Sartana performance but the stories gradually turn towards more comedy, just like Spaghetti Western films generally did at the time, in response to the pyramidal success of Barboni's Trinity movies. Likewise, Carnimeo had carefully staged fist fights gradually replace the high death count of the Sartana cycle.
In numerous films, including One Damned Day at Dawn... Django Meets Sartana! and Django Defies Sartana, Sartana and the Spaghetti western character Django appear side-by-side. Sartana has also been in films alongside Trinity.
Again, the Sabata, Spirito Santo and Hallelujah characters also spawned "others" that were far removed from the Parolini/Carnimeo originals.
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