7/10
A rip-roaring little spaghetti western
22 November 2022
Gérard Herter wants to buy Pietro Tordi's land and he sends his brother (Paul Muller) out to harass him. But rambunctious gunslinger George Hilton protects Tordi and drives them away. So they use local marshal Aldo Cecconi to frame Hilton for murder and chuck him in jail. There he meets bandit Paolo Gozlino and they escape together.

Hilton teams up with Gozlino to rob a bank, but while he's off doing that, Tordi is murdered. Hilton returns and causes trouble for Herter, so he hires a gunslinger to take care of him ... Gozlino.

This is pretty cool spaghetti western. It's a bit looses and ramshackle, but all the various parts of it are fun and some parts are pretty wonderful:

Hilton insists that the bank robbery must be done without shooting anyone, so they smuggle him inside the bank inside a chest of guns so he can emerge at night and rob the place.

Herter's gimmick is that he's very good with a scoped rifle (he's introduced shooting watermelon's off the heads of Mexicans), so he ties Hilton to a big man-shaped target and keeps shooting it, making it spin round and round. Herter's death is ... magnificent.
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