Content: Because she’s fed up with the continuous assaults of evil Cooper’s (Gordon Mitchell) gang, Mrs. McNeal draws her whole money to leave her hometown forever. Her brother Jeff (Dino Strano) has promised to escort her, but he is late. So Mrs. McNeal makes tracks by herself, but unfortunately looses life and money to Cooper a little later.
Therefore Jeff and his buddy Tornado (Mario Brega), who dreams of baked beans and hides his enormous paunch under a pink peace of knitted material, comes to town. But instead of seeking revenge with steely fist, Jeff gives another steely part of his body a chance with his old girlfriend Rosie (Femi Benussi), if you know, what I mean. To leverage things, the Coopers set fire to a run down board partition – with only decent success, concerning the leverage.
Not until the new Sheriff (Maurizio Tocchi), an ex-gunslinger, who now somehow is a kind of pre-Hippie, fails to discipline the Cooper gang, Jeff recalls his primal plans. During Rosie continues warming up the mattress, Jeff starts his quarry pond tour to rain finally on Cooper’s parade
| The Gunslinger says: With the flick’s first sequence you know, how the land lies: During the front credits run, the camera shows us galloping hooves, running on an earth road, on which you can see easily skid marks of a car. So, take a beer and fasten seat-belts.
What we get now is a real cannonball, made by Gianni Crea, who never attracted attention with cineastic masterpieces. Although the story doesn’t start really bad, it soon comes in a precarious situation: The chase of the Cooper bandidos for the unarmed Mrs. McNeal incites heavily to smirk. The gangsters fire like madmen, whereas the lady jigs like an alarmed rabbit. The extras are great too: There are several scene, in which the pedestrians walk like remote-controlled from the edge to the middle of the picture. During a shooting some dead men stand up, and in the Sheriff’s office we see a warrant on which is written “Wanted” triply and the bounty, but name and picture of the wanted aren’t there. Quite mysterious ;-). Further more there are several attempts to implement some humour in the SpencerHill style. In vain, compadres.
Acting efforts are beyond good and evil; story and camera work are lousy. During the fight between Jeff and Foster (Giuseppe Mattei) it seems, as if Crea has chartered a helicopter, to be as far away as possible from the events: The combatants are only visible as small points. OK, the score by Cipriani is not bad: guitars, horns and strings plus flute, choir and churchbell.
| Rating: $
| Bodycount: ca. 29 Gringos, 2 women
| Explicit Brutalities: - The Coopers rape Jeff’s sister, before killng her
- A bandido shoots a pro-gambler in his back, because he doesn’t want to cough up his benefit
| Luv': Jeff refreshs his love with Rosie, and Tornado finds a corpulent Mexican, who’s able to cook baked beans: 1/10
| Gore: 1/10
| Trailer: by MrSpaghettiwestern
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| OT:
Il Sette del Gruppo selvaggio
AT:
Seven savage Men
Year: I 1975
D, S: Gianni Crea
C: Silvio Fraschetti, Angelo Lotti
M: Stelvio Cipriani
with: Dino Strano (”Dean Stratford”), Mario Brega, Femi Benussi, Gordon Mitchell
 | Dino Strano takes out his double chin
|  | Femi Benussi warms up the mattress
|  | Mario Brega hides his enormous belly unter pink knitwear
|  | Maurizio Tocchi: Well, if you make a hippie a Sheriff, ...
|  | ... you haven't to complain about funky wanted posters
|  | | Whatta nice guy: Gordon Mitchell |
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