Content: Santa Anna is just another fucked up frontier village among many others, and like many others the inhabitants groan under the yoke of crime. In town there is the rich Thompson (Luciano Rossi) with his mob, who rules this non prospering community to fill his purse. Outside we have El Santo (Mimmo Maggio) and his Mexican bandidos, controlling all passes, which lead direction Mexico: Every businessman and voyager has to pay dear to travel along. One day a nameless stranger (Luigi Montefiori) comes to town, who wants to visit his old mate Sander, who is the only man to brave the Thompsons. But unfortunately Sander couldn’t pay his toll to El Santo, because the Thompson gang has bumped off the money-courier. El Santo, who doesn’t like receivables, sent his debt collectors to “visit” Sander and his family. After all there are enough reasons for the stranger to take quarter in town, after his abilities with his colt have commanded respect at Thompson’s rowdies. Dumb Pedro (Antonio Toma) and old Miguel (Spartaco Conversi) are his only allies to fulfil his revenge. An opportunity to strike comes with a coach-load of dancing girls, who bring a delivery of arms, urgently attended by Thompson: El Santo has promised to leave the region, if he gets these guns. But the stranger is well prepared to thwart Thompson.
| The Gunslinger says: It’s the only SW, Massimo Pupillo made, and this cheapo is atmospherically quite failed. The story consists of several parts, well known out of other SW, without gaining an own identity. The film unfortunately spends many time in different and completely unimportant subplots, like the episode with the arms dealers or the captured Linda (Linda Orfei). These subplots are neither reasonable motivated nor deepened. They just play for time at the expense of the rhythm and the hardly existing suspense curve. Camera work, which offers some interesting shots, and acting efforts are passable: Luciano Rossi as decadent swine; Frederico Boido is an acceptable, nervous jerking Kinski rip-off, and Claudio Biava as black dressed killer is nice to watch too. Only the performance of Luca Montefiori is really weak: He doesn’t manage much more, than some tired gurning. The boring shoot-outs are better covered in silence too.
The average score offers nevertheless a nice theme, alternatively featuring a trumpet or a blues-harp, spiced up with a gentle choir plus guitars and some strings.
| Rating: $$+
| Bodycount: ca. 40 Gringos, ca. 30 Mexicanos, 1 Woman
| Explicit Brutalities: - After the raid of a stage-coach, the Mexicanos kill some wounded, laughing
- Jack (Claudio Biava) and his collegue blow out two Mexicanos, stiil dazed by some heavy blows of the stranger
- The stranger gets the stick by the arms dealers instead of paying him for his services
- Jack and one arms dealer bash the stranger to get back 20k of dollars
| Luv': Unmotivated and tired „lovestory“ between Linda and the stranger: 0/10
| Gore: 1/10
| Specials: The stranger prepares the weapon chests, so that they explode when opening. Ay, Caramba!
| Trailer: by SpoonMHD
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| OT:
Bill il Taciturno
AT:
Django, le Taciturne (F)
Year: I/F 1967
D: Massimo Pupillo (“Max Hunter”)
S: Renato Polselli (“Leonide Preston”), Paul Farjon
C: Mario Perapetti
M: Berto Pisano
with: Luigi Montefiori (“George Eastman”), Luciano Rossi (“Edwin G. Ross“), Claudio Biava, Spartaco Conversi
 | Luigi Montefiori shows, what he has, ...
|  | ... what annoys some other guys ...
|  | .. and leads to occasional revolts of pygmies i.e. of Mimmo Maggio
|  | Luciano Rossi is Prince of the City
|  | Frederico Boido is a nervous jerk
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