D, S: Vincenzo Gicca Palli; C: Franco Villa;  M: Mario Migliardi;  with: Gianni "John" Garko, Franco Abbiana, Luciano Cartenacci, Luciano Pigozzi

Three masked gangsters raid Polly’s (Gely Genka) saloon for the ridiculous booty of 200 bucks. During the resulting shootings two employees, a guest and two of the bandidos die. In the public opinion only one man can be responsible for that crime: Chester Conway (Klaus Kinski), a local rogue without a real alibi, wins a place on the gibbet after a manipulated show trial. But Polly, Conway’s former girlfriend, has to pick a bone with her ex-lover and wanna kill him for herself. So she engages the lawyer Jeff Plummer (Franco Abbiana) to prove Conway’s innocence. Plummer in turn delegates the job to his old friend Silver (Gianni Garko), retired gunslinger and somewhat something like a private eye. Silver takes over and changes silken dressing gown and cocktail glass with gun and Sartana-like clothes. In the cause of his examinations he detects, that the pietistic inhabitants keep many dark secrets. The saloon robbery was not the bottom of the muddy snake-pit.

The Gunslingers says:

Quite simple made SW, which keeps interest by his unusual plot: a detective story in the cloak of a western. Unfortunately various unmotivated brawls slow down the story’s flow and annoy the Gunslinger. Furhtermore the murder of a girl, which opens the film extensively, turns out only as a sidestring of the plot. That’s a bit dazzling, folx. Acting efforts are solid: Garko once again is a Sartana clone, and Abbiana and Cartenacci as sheriff Tom Stanton are good side-kicks. Kinski’s performance is quite dull: It’s not that challenging to play a character, who is imprisoned nearly the whole time of the film. Migliardi’s score is good and offers some nice electronically alienated instruments.

Rating: $$$

Bodycount: ca. 9 Gringos, 3 Women

Specials:
- Silver possesses a tiny little pistol with special holster. Great to bypass the weapon ban in Polly’s saloon