Just got the DVD of this film and I liked it, since I just recently got into spaghetti westerns, and read about how weird and crazy this one was, so I got it, and yeah, it's violent, weird, and does come off kind of like a horror movie at times because of the sometimes dark atmosphere and the great score, which I really liked. The cast was really good, and then up-and-coming genre star Tomas Milian (who played the intriguing main character/stranger dude) looked surprisingly quite smoking hot for a change as the lead,and even showing some skin during the torture sequence (he usually played ugly, grungy-looking psycho thugs in polizioteschi (Italian crime action film) flicks. Another plus about the film was the fact that the only two female characters weren't made to strip or do sex scenes for once---now that was really different,especially from that era! Great looking film, too. It's definitely an exploitative but entertaining and sometimes thoughtful action drama with some interestingly edited montage flashback sequences for the time. Aside from the gory scenes, which I tried not to watch, I pretty much enjoyed it, but I like old-school films anyway.
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