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