The Bastard

Crack-shot brother Jason (Giuliano Gemma) has just been maimed and abandoned by his crime boss brother (Klaus Kinski) somewhere in Arizona and he’s found by a kindly lady rancher (Claudine Auger), while the brother makes sure their mother (Rita Hayworth) will report on any future moves, in Italian-German-French co-production The Bastard, 1968.

Not every jewel robbery in downtown Albuquerque in 1968 used a Jaguar Type-S getaway car, no matter here though, as Giuliano Gemma leads this gang, with an original song by Michael Magne and Carlo Rustichelli, performed by Nicolle Croisille, in the Italian-German-French co-production The Bastard, starring Rita Hayworth and Klaus Kinski.

Having just slaughtered a bunch of rivals in Arizona, Guiliano Gemma as Jason reports to his crime boss brother Klaus Kinski (as Adam), and they’re joined by their inebriate mother, Rita Hayworth as Martha, early in Italian director Duccio Tessare’s The Bastard, 1968.