Content: Bountyhunter Stark (Giovanni Cianfriglia) has opened up a simple and effective source of income: He leads a bogus circle of poker players, luring unsuspecting strangers into a trap. With the help of faked cards the strangers are brought to draw their colts, because they assume a betrayal: One of these jinx looses his life anyway. Now the fat sheriff enters the scene, who immediately fixes the bounty for the now fugitive, which Stark normally can cash a few minutes later. A certain amount of the sum is of course reserved for the upright law enforcement officer. As the betrayers try to bamboozle John (Ivan Rassimov), a gold-digger, the same way, he can escape with the help of his fast guns. Heavily wounded, he is fed by the farmer family McGowan. But country life doesn’t mean pure fun, but hardship and worriment: The regional farmers are terrorized by evil Dick Logan (Renato Mambor) and his henchmen. The Logan mob works for Marlow (Tom Felleghy), a real swine, who wants to get all the land to resell it to a railway company with a handsome profit. But the catch is, that Marlow has only one week to seize all lots of land, otherwise the ironhorse will take another way. So Marlow leaves no stone unturned and engages even the Mexicanos of Chief Alvarez (Franco Cobianchi) to force the McGowans to sell their land, who on the other hand are supported by John and the mysterious dandy Donovan (Riccardo Garrone).
| The Gunslinger says: Beside their marginal low budgets another attribute of Sergio Garrone’s westerns is often an original idea, which is usually loused up dully. So I mostly don’t find his works mucho entertaining. Well, we got another cheapo here, but in this case Garrone succeeds in finding a nice rhythm for his plot. If the story gets stuck, it’s helped on its track again by several decent comic elements, nice served by the actors, who all are in good humour. Furthermore there are some nice ideas like the bounty-number at the beginning or the scene in which Sally McGowan (Isabella Savona) slobbers over John’s “human” qualities, whereas an immediate cut shows us John and Donovan heavily bashing one of the bandits. The score of the proved Vasili Kojucharov and Elsio Mancuso, aka Vasco & Mancuso, serves pleasing routine food with a trilling flute, electric guitars, brass and blues harp.
| Rating: $$$
| Bodycount: ca. 30 Gringos, ca. 12 Mexicanos
| Explicit Brutalities: - Logan’s men bash farmers to bring them to sold their property
- John smashs one of Logan’s henchmen (Franco Ukmar) to get some information about the Mexicano attack on the McGowans
- John is beaten up by the bandits in front of Sally, who shall sign the deed of sale for the ranch
| Luv': Sally adores John, whereas hot blooded Paquita flings herself at Donovan (1/10)
| Gore: 1/10
| Trailer:by SpoonMHD
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| OT:
Se vuoi vivere … spara
Year: I 1967
D, S: Sergio Garrone (“Willy S. Regan“)
S: Franco Cobianchi
C: Sandro Mancori
M: Vasco & Mancuso
with: Ivan Rassimov (“Sean Todd”), Riccardo Garrone (“Rick Garrett”), Tom Felleghy, Giovanni Cianfriglia (“Ken Wood”)
 | Ivan Rassimov, gambling
|  | Oooops!
|  | Riccardo Garrone, thinking of better times
|  | Sign here, please: Tom Felleghy and Isabella Savona ...
|  | .... Ivan Rassimov's black eyes help convincing
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