The Deserter (The Devil's Backbone)
- Original title
- La spina dorsale del diavolo (The Deserter)aka
- AKA
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- The Deserter
- The Devil's Backbone
- Year
- 1971
- Running time
- 100 min.
- Country
- Italy
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Bekim Fehmiu
- Richard Crenna
- Chuck Connors
- Ricardo Montalban
- Ian Bannen
- Brandon De Wilde
- Slim Pickens
- Woody Strode
- Albert Salmi
- Patrick Wayne
- John Huston
- Fausto Tozzi
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production Italy-Yugoslavia-United States;
- Genre
- Western | Spaghetti Western
- Synopsis
- Bitter over his wife's death due to what he believes was army negligence, Capt. Viktor Kaleb deserts the cavalry and disappears into the southwestern wasteland. But when marauding Apaches set up a stronghold just out of the cavalry's reach in Mexico, Kaleb is given amnesty in exchange for leading a small band of especially trained soldiers to wipe out the Indian stronghold.
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