Really underrated.


Not the best but a lot of fun, and way better than, say, Cutthroats 9.

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Very good film even if it does rip-off Leones The Good The Bad and the Ugly..hell,all spaghetti westerns take something from a Leone Classic. Still,this is a very good movie with a likable leading character and a genuine urge to see how it all ends. I love the ending..just what I had hoped would happen. Check it out,in fact,check out ALL of the spaghetti westerns..each had their own little style and were,usually,at the very least..watchable. Which is a lot more than you can say about most of todays films.

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It wasn't ripping-off 'The Good, The Bad And The Ugly' it was spoofing it (hence the Man With No Name look-alike that is killed right at the beginning along with the Django look-alike and a Lee Van Cleef knock-off).

I would say it is very debatable to say all Spaghetti Westerns take something from a Leone Classic as I can think of many that don't (such as Enzo G. Castellari's 'Keoma', Sergio Corbucci's 'Django' (though is is inspired by the same sources as 'A Fistful of Dollars'. Corbucci's films are generally very different from Leone's films), Damiano Damiani's 'A Bullet for the General', Cervi's 'Today it’s Me, Tomorrow You'...off the top of my head).

I will agree though that the two most influential films actually on Spaghetti Westerns are Leone's 'A Fistful of Dollars' and to an even greater extent Corbucci's 'Django' (just look at all the Django knock-offs and rip-offs).

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I agree. This film is a lot of fun. George Hilton, Gilbert Roland, and Eddie Byrnes were all excellent in the leads.

"We're all part Shatner/And part James Dean/Part Warren Oates/And Steven McQueen"

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