D:
Leon Klimovsky; S: Tito Carpi, Manuel Martinez Remis; C:; M: Gianni Ferrio; with: Guy Madison, Ennio Girolami („Thomas
Moore”), German Cobos, Richard Harrison, Maria Salerno („Marta Monterrey“)
Dexter is a quiet little town, where live goes on slowly. If there are some problems, Sheriff
Donovan (Richard Harrison) re-establishs law and order – with the little help of his nice mustache. Things are-a-changin’,
as Daniel Miller (Guy Madison), an old friend of Donovan, enters the scene. Miller, once forced by a traumatic experience
in his childhood to become a hard-boiled bountyhunter, is now a priest and wants to build a church in Dexter. But as a bunch
of mobsters attack the bank and kill the cashier, things are blamed on Miller. To avoid being lynched and to gain the confidence
of the citizens, he chases the bandidos. On his way Miller and his fast colt .45 help some settlers against the same bandits,
who want to rob a treasure of the Confederate Army, hidden in one of the waggons. The group reachs an abandoned fort. Now
the poor people have to suffer under the siege of the gangsters, the limited water store and the hoooooot sun. To crown it
all, a group of Mexicanos is interested in the treasure too.
I
1970
The
Gunslinger says:
Well, this film starts quite OK, but looses its line to reach ist poor end nearly without
tension nor action. The direction – credits go to Argentinian Leon Klimovsky, but in fact Marino Girolami did the work
– isn’t able to dramatize the situation of the locked. Furthermore the gangsters act without ambition: Even as
the settlers destroy the doors of the fort by mistake, Mestizo (Ennio Girolami) doesn’t have the nuts to attack. Why
this hippiesque pansy is searched by a 20k-warrant? I don’t know, folx. A poor oeuvre, despite of the fact, that we’ve
got a capable staff: no technical mistakes. Gianni Ferrio contributed quite a good scor, which is a mixture aof classical
spaghetti- and 60s-instrumenal club-sounds in its best moments.
Rating: $$
Bodycount: ca. 16 Gringos, 3 Mexicanos, 1 child
Luv’:
Ex-Bandit Gary (Giuseppe Cardillo aka „Steven Tedd“) loves Katy (Maria Salerno),
and gambler Fred Smith (German Cobos) falls in love with his sister-in-law, the widow Dorothy (Perla Cristal), who uses to
hate him: 2/10
Splatter:
1/10