Content: Tex Willer (Giuliano Gemma) brings home the bacon as a ranger. Additionally he’s the chief of a small Navajo trunk. One day his old mate and colleague Kit Carson (William Berger) shows up, disturbing Tex’ contemplative being as part time Indian:
A government’s weapon transport, led by a common friend, has vanished despite highest security level. Tex, his Indian mate Tiger Jack (Carlo Mucari) and Kit start out for the research and soon find the remains of the convoy, that is the killed escort, whose corpses are curiously completely mummified. On the crime scene they find a strange amulet, what later on is identified by Morrisco (Peter Berling), an eccentric friend in Mexico, as Aztec. In the hollow talisman they come across some crystals of volcanic origin, having a resounding lethal effect not only on Morrisco’s pitiful Piranhas ;-).
The further investigations show the following: The stolen weapons are via Mexican bandidos designed for an Indian sect, which wants to eliminate all Gringos at least in Mexico. Under the leadership of princess Tulag (Isabel Russinova) and archpriest Kanas (Flavio Bucci) the sect wants to unite all surrounding trunks to found a mighty army. The mummifying crystals are mined by a strange old buffer (Riccardo Petrazzi) in a cavern, permeated by lava. Now it’s up for Tex and his mates to foil the sect’s plans.
| The Gunslingers says: 20 years after „Ringo", their first collaboration, Duccio Tessari and Giuliano Gemma met again for a last Western. This flick was made after an Italian comic serial around the ranger Tex Willer, which was published since the end of the forties. The result is an existensively passable blend of Western - I abdicate consciously the prefix “Spaghetti” - horror and fantasy elements, the latter used very sparing. The often used comparison with “Indiana Jones” to me isn’t really comprehensible. “Spaghetti” on this film are only production and location: Despite this the flick generally abides by classic standards, completed by some elements out of the European “Winnetou”-movies. This concerns basically the constellation of characters and the camerawork; even the orchestral score by Gianni Ferrio sometimes reminds of the works of Martin Böttcher, concerning instrumentation and melodies. Among the actors only Aldo Sambrell, the old war horse, at most flies the Spaghetti flag as out-and-out evil Mexicano chief. It’s a pity, that this flick comes along sooo seriously. Even Gemma and Berger, which I llke both because of their ability being self-depreciating, could have laid it on thick, especially at this subject matter. Only Berger realised rudimentary some tongue in cheek, whereas Gemma acts without humour and even gave up his ambivalence of his old SW days. What a nice comedy this could have been. So you get an average film, which doesn’t really entertain or bore.
| Rating: $$$
| Bodycount: ca. 7 Gringos, 21 Mexicanos, 35 Indians
| Explicit Brutalities: - El Dorado (Aldo Sambrell) bumps off one accomplice, who has rescued him with his horse out of the mess: Two men, one horse? Disculpe, amigo, this is overweight.
- The Indians crucify Kit and Tiger Jack on the rocks to sacrifice them later
| Luv': Nope, sir
| Gore: 2/10
| Specials: The crystals out of the cave cause immediate mummification and petrification
| TV-Documentationby Texzeca
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| OT:
Tex Willer e il Signore degli Abissi
Year: I 1985
D, S: Duccio Tessari
S: Giorgio Bonelli, Gianfranco Clerici, Marcello Coscia
C: Pietro Morbidelli
M: Gianni Ferrio
with: Giuliano Gemma, William Berger, Carlo Mucari, Peter Berling
 | Oops, the sell-by date has definitely exceeded
|  | Carlo Mucari, Peter Berling, William Berger und Giuliano Gemma testing the nice stuff, which ...
|  | ... causes drastic carnal damages and ...
|  | ... is mined by Riccardo Petracci out of the lava
|  | A leopard doesn't change its spots: Francisco Brana
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