D: Gianfranco Parolini ("Frank Kramer"); B: G.P., Renato Izzo; C: Allesandro Manconi; M: Bruno Nicolai; with: Yul Brynner, Dean Reed; Ignazio Spalla ("Pedro Sanchez"); Gerard Herter, Gianni Rizzo

Mexican revolutionaries engage gun man Sabata (Yul Brynner), in the original (Italian) version called Indio Black, to rob an Austrian transport of gold in order to buy some weapons. Together with Escudo ("Pedro Sanchez") and his gang as well as the shifty painter Ballantine (Dean Reed) the coup succeeds. But instead of the hoped gold the troop captures only a few bags of sand, because the sadistic Austrian Colonel von Schimmel (Gerard Herter) was smarter: He can blame the robbery now on the Mexicans and fill his own purse together with his fat secret service boss (Gianni Rizzo). However Sabata and his pals decide to attack the Austrian fortress to win the gold still for the revolution.

The Gunslinger says:

Passable film of Gianfranco Parolini (1970) with burlesque elements, which has it's pluses in it's atmosphere, look and music (Bruno Nicolai). Nevertheless the story is weak and serves only as loose connection of the particular action scenes. Parolini obviously didn't want to make a Sabata Sequel: Only in the English and German version a connection was designed. But the main figure - a technically more experienced, black clothed gunslinger - and the constellation of persons - the shifty buddy, the strange allied ones and the sadistic upper rogue - add "Adios Sabata" without break into the row of "real" Sabata films, also made by Parolini.

Rating: $$$

Bodycount: ca 110 Gringos; 15 Mexicans

Explicit brutalities:

- Colonel von Schimmel offers Mexican prisoners the possibility to flee, but only in order to shoot them in the back.

Specials:

- Sabata uses an extensive weapon arsenal: of a Derringer up to Nitroglycerin caps with impact fuze

- Septiembre (Sal Borgese), buddy of Escudo, "fires" lead balls with his particularly prepared boot

 - Colonel von Schimmel possesses a model ship, which fires a sharp broadside on those, who open a certain drawer of a bureau