Long Days of Vengeance Long Days of Vengeance I lunghi giorni della vendetta (internationally released as Long Days of Vengeance, "Days of Vengeance" and "The Deadliest Gunfight") is a 1967 Italian western film directed by Florestano Vancini. It is the only western directed by Vancini, here credited as Stan Vance. The film is a spaghetti western version of Alexandre Dumas' novel "The Count of Monte Cristo". Ted Barnett escapes from prison and returns to his home town to prove that he did not commit murder and also find the man who murdered his father. To do this he must disclose the respected landowner Cobb
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote [at the Cannes Film Festival] next year with the finished film, and then you can ask me why I made such a mess of it or why I made such a wonderful film." Over the years, Gilliam and Grisoni kept on re-writing "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" as they kept on trying to make the film. The most notable change was the removal of the time travelling element present central to the original 2000 production; instead of the character of Grisoni being thrown back through time, the film would instead take place in modern times, with the "period elements"