D: Demofilo Fidani ("Miles Deem") B: D.F., Tonio Ricci; C: Aristide Massaccesi; M: Lalo Gori; with: Giovanni Scarciofolo ("Jeff Cameron"), Klaus Kinski; Jack Betts ("Hunt Powers"), Gordon Mitchell, Simone Blondell

Gangsterboss Slander (Klaus Kinski) looses his two brothers with a failed assault on the messuage of the family Hamilton. He swears revenge. His "1^st. Officer" Tamajo (Jack Betts) takes the retaliation action into its blood-proven hands and ignites the Hamilton's hut. The Hamiltons die; but there are still two problems: Oldest Hamilton branch George (Giovanni Scarciofolo) survives, because he's still in the army at the time of the crime. Secondly Tamajo loses a watch at the scene, which had given him Slander. Georgie, in the meantime again in civilian clothes, makes itself up as "Nevada Kid" to find and punish the owner of the clock.. Slander for his part tries everything to get the watch back and organize a first class funeral for Nevada.

The Gunslinger says

A surprisingly successful Western, made by Demofilo Fidani ("Miles Deem") in 1970, even if it looses tension increasingly to the weak Showdown. Kinski and Betts (under his alias "Hunt Powers") are good rogues, and Scarciofolo (alias "Jeff Cameron") likewise kills everyone, he gets before his barrels. Gordon Mitchell, who played often in Fidani-movies, does a good job as the stuttering bountyhunter John, who earns himself some money in addition with the help of his old gun.

Rating: $$ - $$$

Bodycount: 45 Gringos, 12 Mexicans

Brutalities:

Monica Benson (Fidani daughter Simone Blondell), kidnapped by the gangsters, is hung by Tamajo on the hands over an open well pit, in order to lure Nevada from covering.