4/10
Low-budgeted movie directed by Miles Deem or Demofilo Fidani , the ¨Ed Wood of Spaghetti Western¨.
4 June 2022
Set at a small gold mining town , where arrives Lazar (Hunt Powers or Jack Betts), a bounty killer who detains outlaws with a reward on their head . The small desert town called Black City is besieged by a ruthless band of bandits led by the nasty Medina (Benito Pacifico as Dennis Colt) . Along the way , Lazar is followed to the town by a stranger gunfighter (Franco Borelli as Chet Davis) . Soon after , he teams up with the young gunslinger to track down Barrett (Ettore Manni) a former bandit and mine owner. As astute Lazar and an experienced gunslinger join forces to terminate a reign of terror carried out by a brutal band of criminals . At the end of the day, the shrewd bounty hunter clashes with Barrett, but something gets worst , including an unexpected final twist .

This below-average Ravioli Western packs thrills , action , brawls , crossfire and drags at times , balancing in ups and downs and with some scenes being awfully staged . The movie has the typical Spaghetti characters , as the violent facing , greedy antiheroes, bloody and spectacular showdowns, quick zooms , extreme baddies , but being wretchedly directed . Inginocchiati straniero... I cadaveri non fanno ombra!(1970) unite forces two mysterious antiheroes from Spaghetti Western : Sabata and Man-without-name in Eastwood style and with an agenda of his own . And at the end stubborn and cunning Lazar Peacock or Sabata along with saintly roving gunslinger Man With No Name take on Barrett and his underling Medina . Stars the American Hunt Powers or Jak Betts who gives a passable acting as the mysterious bounty hunter named Lazar or Sabata who arrives in a little town delivering to sheriff the detained outlaws and to take the rewards . Jack Betts often plays dashing, debonair, suave and refined gentlemen . A good secondary actor who also had his Italian period , playing a lot of Spaghetti westerns , such as : Giù la testa... hombre , ...e lo chiamarono Spirito Santo , Giù le mani... carogna! , Nevada Kid . Inginocchiati straniero... I cadaveri non fanno ombra! , Django y Sartana are coming , Halleluja for Django , and Django meets Sartana. Being well accompanied by various familiar faces from Spaghetti and Demofilo Fidani films, such as : Dennis Colt , Simonetta Vitelli or Blondell , Demofilo Fidani's daughter and starred several films of her father, Attilio Dottesio , and special appearance by Gordon MItchell who starred a lot of Pasta Western and Peplum ; furthermore , Ettore Manni as the villain mine owner who is ruling the little town with a iron fist.

Here stands out the atmospheric cinematography by the famous and prolific Joe D'Amato or Aristide Massaccesi , shot in Elios Studios, Rome, Lazio. As well as the enjoyable musical score by Coriolano Gori , though it isn't fitting to action . The motion picture was regularly directed by Demofilo Fidani or Miles Deem , considered to be the ¨Ed Wood of Spaghetti Western" and husband of Mila Vitelli Valenza ,a professional costume designer and father of actress Simonetta Vitelli , both of whom worked in various films of Demofilo . Fidani directed all kind of genres in low budget and exploitation pictures . He eventually had more pseudonyms than any working director in the world , similarly to Bruno Mattei . He followed shooting these taboo-breaking films with excursions into porno film , adventure , as ¨Karzan, Jungle Lord" and specially , Spaghetti as ¨Django and Sartana's Showdown in the West" , ¨Giù la Testa¨, "Sartana, the Invincible Gunman" , ¨El Sartana... l'Ombre Ta Mort¨, among others .
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