D: Giuseppe Vari („Joseph Warren“); S: Fernando Di Leo, Augusto Caminito; C: Angelo Lotti; M: Coriolano Gori; with: Luigi Montefiori (“George Eastman”), Jorge Hill (“George Hilton”), Annabella Incontrera, Mimmo Palmara (“Dick Palmer”)

Lucas (Luigi Montefiori) looses a poker match against smart Ponson Terrail (Jorge Hill) and 4.000 dollars, which he has borrowed from a strange mexican, called Lazar (Jose Torres). Ponson pays the depts, but in return Lucas instead of the murdered carriage driver has to deliver a charge of blank paper to Chamaco, a small town close to the mexican border. Ponson and Lucas want to find the orderer of the strange freight and come across to rich Master (Mimmo Palmara), Chamaco’s biggest landowner. Master produces masses of counterfeit mexican money with the little help of a kidnapped artist. Whereas Lucas is anxious to put a stop on Master’s acitivities, Ponson follows his own and quite different plan. But in the meantime Lazar has arrived in Chamaco too: He’s also interested in Master’s game.

I 1967

The Gunslinger says:

After making „Django – last Killer“, Giuseppe Vari produced this second film featuring long Luca Montefiori in the leading role in the same year. Jorge Hill, as the virtual rogue, this time plays the second fiddle. Hill is a capable actor and mostly was unchallenged with his usual tasks in the SW-comedies. This becomes i.e. evident in “Sam Cooper’s Gold”, where he gives a good bad-guy-performance too.

“Poker with Pistols” is a nice routine production with a non-convincing story, but without technical mistakes: camera-work, atmosphere and decors are OK. Well, folx, beside that I think, I become a fan of Gori-scores: One more time he contributes a decent pattern with a nice trumpet-theme.

Rating: $$$+

Bodycount: ca. 5 Mexicans; ca. 13 Gringos

Explicit Brutalities:

- Lucas is hung up in the glowing sun by the Master-gang with a pitchfork under his chin

Luv’:

The love between Ponson and Lola is only a flash in the pan: 0/10

Splatter: 1/10