Rogelio A. Gonzalez, the director of "The Naked Man" (1976), a curious "spaghetti" western made in Canada in Spanish stars Hollywood's star of numerous 20th Century-Fox films (he played the original "Rodney Harrington" in the film version of "Peyton Place" starring Lana Turner) including "The 300 Spartans." Rogelio A. Gonzalez and one of the producers of "The Naked Man," Enrique Torres Tudela together with Barry Coe and Wanda Hendrix made an adaptation of an Edgar Allan Poe story in 1972 titled "One Minute Before Death."
The plot of "The Naked Man" is pretty good, and seeing the film for the first time in 2022, it would be a good candidate for a re-make. The lone stranger with a troubled past shown in recurring flashbacks avenges the looting, raping and marauding of a gang hired by the corrupt businessmen playing cards in a room above the saloon in the town they pay the cutthroats to have the victims sell out to obtains their land. The lone stranger has a curious request that the men he's secured remove their clothes before he sends them to their punishment, including the corrupt businessmen as he cleans up the town. Unfortunately there is little homoerotic cause, although the film becomes neatly sown together. The script is attributed to Rogelio A., Gonzalez, Salvador Macias Perez, and Miriam Salinas de Gonzalez. Film elements could have been better. Coe, of course, like most characters like his, isn't given much, however he is helped greatly by the others in the cast like Jose Alonso, Irma Lozano, Celine La Freniere and Barney O'Sullivan. Aside from Tudela, the film was also produced by Jose Lorenzo Zakany Almada. The lone stranger's quest is satisfied, a little reminiscent of say, "Nevada Smith," but quite original.
The plot of "The Naked Man" is pretty good, and seeing the film for the first time in 2022, it would be a good candidate for a re-make. The lone stranger with a troubled past shown in recurring flashbacks avenges the looting, raping and marauding of a gang hired by the corrupt businessmen playing cards in a room above the saloon in the town they pay the cutthroats to have the victims sell out to obtains their land. The lone stranger has a curious request that the men he's secured remove their clothes before he sends them to their punishment, including the corrupt businessmen as he cleans up the town. Unfortunately there is little homoerotic cause, although the film becomes neatly sown together. The script is attributed to Rogelio A., Gonzalez, Salvador Macias Perez, and Miriam Salinas de Gonzalez. Film elements could have been better. Coe, of course, like most characters like his, isn't given much, however he is helped greatly by the others in the cast like Jose Alonso, Irma Lozano, Celine La Freniere and Barney O'Sullivan. Aside from Tudela, the film was also produced by Jose Lorenzo Zakany Almada. The lone stranger's quest is satisfied, a little reminiscent of say, "Nevada Smith," but quite original.
