Vengeance (Joko - Invoca Dio... e muori)

Antonio Margheriti directed and co-wrote Vengeance, a 1968 spaghetti western whose original title is Joko – Invoca Dio... e muori ("Joko, invoke God and die"). American money funded this Italian-West German co-production, which German-speaking audiences saw as Fünf blutige Stricke ("Five Bloody Ropes") and French audiences as Avec Django, la mort est là. In Brazil it first played as Joko Invoca Deus... e Mata and was reissued years later by Ocean Pictures do Brasil as Vingança.

Richard Harrison plays the outlaw Joko Barrett, who is after the five men who double-crossed him and his crew during a robbery. The death of his psychotic accomplice Mendoza (Claudio Camaso) leaves him with some distraction in the company of a travelling woman (Špela Rozin). Still, he keeps pieces of the five ropes used to quarter his young recruit Richie (Alberto Dell'Acqua), and hands one back to each culprit before killing him.

The film is noted for its Gothic influences on the western; Mario Bava's biographer Leon Hunt described it as the western Bava might have made. Renato Savino produced and Carlo Savina composed the music. It is often counted among Margheriti's better efforts, though most commentators see it as a stepping stone toward his most accomplished western, And God Said to Cain (1970).