Content: Marty Hillman (Alfonso Rojas) isn’t really a nice guy. Once involved in the robbery of the bank of El Paso, he has delivered his old friend to the gibbet, married his young daughter Kay (Yvonne Bastien) by force and vanished with the booty. Now he lives as honest farmer, who has 50.000 dollars in his money sock and a sharp wife in his bed. But on the other side he has not much fun with both and furthermore lots of troubles on his backside: His wife hates him fanatically and wants to see him dead; the former members of the El Paso gang have settled in the near under leadership of evil Bill Carter (Piero Lulli), to wheedle the dough out of him. Moreover Carter is bent on Kay since she was a child.
One day a stranger called Jim shows up at Carter, who engaged the man who’s a real fasthand at the gun: 200 bucks plus fare. Jim, who is righteous in a nearly obtrusive way, which doesn’t bring him many friends. Real soon he has troubles with the Carter family. Carter, who has gained a certain influence in the community, lets kill the sheriff to blame the murder on Jimbo, This now starts playing hardball to elucidate the confusing coherences.
Because of his inquiries, which bring much **** to light, he can convert the new sheriff Brack and the citizens to his column. Now Carter is forced to let fall the rest of his civil carmouflage.
| The Gunslinger says: It’s modern to advertise this flick with the participation of Mario Bava, who’s said to be one of the directors. But his contribution to the film is quite obscure. According to some sources he took over directon from the credited Spaniard Antonio Román. Other participants like Renato Rossini, tell, that Bava only has played a minor part as director, but was quite important with his knowledge and creativity to satisfy the small budget.
Whatever: The result is a dashing hybrid of US- (look) and SW, which misses a position in the genre upper class. Its principal weaknesses are on one side the plot, on the other the montage. Some awkward cuts cause several strange segues and disturb the film’s rhythm: More than once a potentially important dialogue is interrupted unmotivated by an i.e. riding scene and not taken up again. The story falters especially concerning the setting. Why i.e. did the Carter gang buy a ranch instead of questioning Marty about the money first? I couldn’t figure it out. Later on they do it ;-).
Besides that the flick is made solidly and even rough at times. So the camera watches valiantly as Lully treats Clarke with a broken beer bottle and sometimes you’ll be able to detect the one or other bullet hole. Concerning the actors there’s not much to complain: Especially Piero Lulli once again is an entertaining villain. Yvonne Bastien, wife of director Román, is really luscious, and American Ken Clarke(e), who showed up in European cine in some peplums during the early Sixties, makes a good job. Guglielmo Mancori, responsible for the camera work, supplies some nice shots, and the score by Nino Oliviero is enjoyable to listen with its acoustic guitars, trumpet, small horn section and its whistling passages.
| Rating: $$$+
| Bodycount: ca. 8 Gringos, 1 Mexicano
| Explicit Brutalities: - Women, especially Kay, are walloped occasionally
- Two bandidos gorge in front of some hungry Mexicanos and **** them
| Luv': Kay sees in Jim the possibility to flee her hated life. So she throws herself at him without inhibitions. But: no future, compadres. 1/10
| Gore: 2/10
| Specials: Jim once has a strong desire for milk, but later on changes to whiskey.
| Trailer: by INUNAKITOGE |
| OT:
Ringo del Nebraska
AT:
Ringo de Nebraska (El Rancho maldito) (SP)
Ringo from Nebraska (USA)
Savage Ringo
R: Antonio Román (“Anthony Roman”), Mario Bava (not credited)
B: Jesus Navarro, Antonio Romàn, Adriano Bolzoni
K: Guglielmo Mancori
M: Nino Oliviero
D: Ken Clarke, Piero Lulli (“Peter Carter”), Yvonne Bastien, Renato Rossini (“Red Ross”)
 | Who's got the longest one?
|  | Antonio Gradoli and Livio Lorentzon passing through the warming-up
|  | Blain on the shoulder? Yvonne Bastien and Alfonso Rojas
|  | Cinema in the year 1877
|  | Ken Clarke breaks the hearts of the proudest women
|  | Bloody thirsty: Piero Lulli
|  | Want a smoke?
|  | Piero Lulli starting his charm offensive
|  | Anybody laughing? It's obviously not Ken Clarke
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