Steffen acts like this is a serious western at times, and just does not work for me.
He does Ennioo - this is part of the problem. One thing or another… it’s like him and Sancho are in different style movies.
They both look uncomfortable with their roles.
Yes, good way to put it.
It’s such a shame that this was Steffen’s swansong in the genre. It may have been Sir Sancho’s last proper western maybe?
What a sad way for them to finally play it out together… two of my favourites, but that’s spaghetti-land for ya.
Best remembered for other stuff… 
This movie is part of the SW comedy subgenre, so you can expect a bunch of punches, very few gunshots and no deaths. In the unsuccessful scene populated by bare-chested fighters Sancho and Steffen in some way even imitate Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, as you can imagine with very unconvincing results.
The Spanish title is pertinent but unimaginative and entirely alien to the SW tradition; on the other hand the Italian one - Il mio nome è Scopone e faccio sempre cappotto, translatable as My name is Scopone and I always win by a landslide - follows the trend of long titles typical of the early Seventies clearly referring to Giuliano Carnimeo’s Tresette (both tresette and scopone are Italian card games) but has nothing to do with the film, in which the character played by Steffen is always and only called Dallas.
But the craziest and improper is maybe the American video title reported on IMDb :Ten Killers Came from Afar!
New entry in my Bottom-20 in the eleventh place
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One I will not be watching in a hurry again.
I can image that
I never write about movies I haven’t watched (somebody else already did the trick) so it was my turn to never say never again:
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The opening with Sancho caged seems a clear reference to Shango, one of the two SWs co-written by Steffen. Sancho and Steffen worked together in other three movies (Seven Dollars on the Red, Killer Kid and Too Much Gold for One Gringo).
In Italy public screening was authorized on 5 June 1974 with a T rating and a few minor changes relating to bad language, but it seems that the film was released only after one year. As for filming dates, it should be noted that Esplugas City, Western town destroyed in the second half of 1972 for the making of Now They Call Him Sacramento, is in the movie.
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Great success with the public and the critics on FilmTv website (see vote and stars on the right), in such enthusiastic tones I can’t wait to see the Reverend’s reaction :o ;D
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Great success with the public and the critics on FilmTv website (see vote and stars on the right), in such enthusiastic tones I can’t wait to see the Reverend’s reaction :o ;D
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4 out of 5 stars from one reader. I wonder what he had been smoking prior to watching the movie …
Does have its moments, I really like the main theme… watching the first 20 minutes I thought it might end up like Too Much Gold For One Gringo or Tequila (Fuzzy the Hero)… but it gets very repetitive and not much fun… so nowhere near those, imo
So we’re skipping the upcoming WildEast release then?
Will still be good to own, another Steffen in the collection… maybe its funnier in the english dub
Yes maybe better with the eng dub. I’m going to grab it.
Watched it in Italian and read @scherpschutter’s review (quoted below). Think I’ll pass the Wild East release.
Probably right. It has much of the same cast and crew as La caza del oro, shot in the autumn 1971. Steffen is even wearing the same hat.
Total disaster …
The only thing that could have saved this film.
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I went through Rev’s review, how very negative. Lot of hate for this one, I see. Well, I enjoyed it nonetheless, there’s lot of funny scenes, some dumb moments also and, God in heavens, no deaths! Nobody is killed, only Sancho shot in his fat ass! 
Also I liked soundtrack, which is something different and some great locations at the beginning.
I rather enjoyed this one … can’t fathom all the bad reviews here - there are dozens of SWs much much worse .
Fernando Sancho’s natural comedic style raises this way above the forced unfunny ‘Trinity’ style slapstick movies … which to me are completely tedious and without any artistic merit.
It’s no masterpiece or long lost gem, but it is a more than passable piece of light entertainment - plus Sancho’s character is genuinely endearing.
The WildEast release is one of the most messed up prints they’ve ever put out … I think the print must have been saved from the bandsaw - it’s been absolutely cut to pieces and then reassembled … so there must be hundreds if not thousands of splices … I don’t mind grindhouse prints, but there are limits.
http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/f8/t001947.html
Wondered if anyone here has seen the Italian DVD release from last February ? … which apparently has Italian and English audio options. 
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I only have the Wild East version 
Not a bad little film! Definitely worth watching if you’re not looking for something too heavy. Sometimes it feels like they made the plot up as they went along but it manages to work.
Ah we had actually updated the film’s entry in the database but didn’t let y’all know about it 