D und B: Giuseppe Colizzi; C: Alfio Contini; M: Angel Oliver Pina; with: Mario Girotti ("Terence Hill"), Frank Wolff; Carlo Pedersoli ("Bud Spencer"), José Manuel Martin, Gina Rovere

A train filled with corpses arrives in Canyon City. Each trace however is missing of the transported gold in the value of 300,000 dollar. Insurance detective Dan ("Bud Spencer") believes, that only the bandit Bill San Antonio (Frank Wolff) can put behind the massacre. But this man is actually dead: killed by Django ("Terence Hill") ten months ago. The references consolidate themselves, that Bill had only produced his death at that time, in order to escape bountyhunters, the law and other vermin. After the usual initial "problems of communication", including a strong fight, Dan and Django become partners: The one, in order to fetch the money back, the other one, in order to provide a new logis under the radishes for Billy Boy.

The Gunslinger says:

This film from the year 1967 circulates in different German cutting and synchronous versions, whereby I did not see the funny version. The serious version - despite numerous cuts quite brutal - still offers an average spaghetti-meal on elevated level owing to equipment, camera guidance and actors. The film is only remarkable because of the fact, that the later success duo "Spencer"/"Hill" here; the first time met one on the other.

Rating: $$$

Explicit Brutalities:

- Django is nearly drowned by Bill's right hand Bud (José Manuel Martín). Martín is always right, if a real rogue is needed, even if he usually does not survive the end of the movie.

- Dan is struck to the cross and tortured heavily with a glowing iron. It seems, that "Bud Spencer" has changed the position this time with a splinter piglet; however nevertheless he never became vegetarian, I assume.

Splatter: 2-3/10