Watched this one with English subs today and echo what has been said above.
Obviously very little budget to work with here but Bianchini is to be applauded for what he manages to eke out of it.
The mood is the key but also some good performances. Berti is the stand out for me.
The great majority of 80 minutes long Italian TV prints are cut, but this one - a film that as a whole I like very much despite the already mentioned budget limitations - is really a short SW (84 minutes).
That not particularly inspired scene was missing from an incomplete TV recording and refers to the introduction of El Loco and the nine bandits before the opening credits.
Watched this last night via an English dubbed screening copy, really liked it a lot. Constant action, lots of zooms and just really enjoyable spaghetti.
This one should really be fandubbed over to the Italian print, surprised someone hasn’t already done so
Just finished watching this via a recent fandubbed upgrade. Ok spaghie with a likeable Wayde Preston in the lead who’s after bandits for robbing a stagecoach of it’s gold. Some familiar faces in this, but found Marco Zuanelli kinda of annoying though.
Just viewed this one again via the widescreen english audio version mentioned above. Simple film, but loads of atmosphere. Alot of twangy guitar music reused from Dynamite Joe . A film just made before the big comedy explosion of Spaghetti westerns.
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And here’s our Amigo, read the review before he’s dead!
https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Hey_Amigo_…_You%27re_Dead!_Review
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The 84 minutes running time is correct but there were cuts here and there*, so as is often the case a restoration from original camera negative would be desirable.
*part of the trough scene at the beginning
overhead shot of the rape
Doc’s head repeatedly slammed against the wooden wall
part of the fistfight with Black
Statement ‘‘è bello vedere bruciare il culo ai porci’’
What tomas would call ‘family friendly stuff’, in conclusion… 
One Damned Day at Dawn…
Now I have no idea what that means, but I bet it must be very harsh statement and kids would go all clocwork orange on society if they heard it, so I’m glad they cut it out.
hashtag/mothersagainstviolence
Pleasantly surprised by this one.
Yet another decent SW with no DVD release. The music is pretty good aswell.
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I just watched Hey Amigo, You’re Dead/Hey Amigo ! A Toast To Your Death (Paolo Bianchini) for the first time and especially the first half hour was interesting.
With a gang of outlaws entering a western town, with their strongly motivated and decently charismatic leader and where otherwise Aldo Berti’s character was the most profiled, the SW roughly reminded me of the beginning of El Puro story-wise.
So it started a little bit “arty-like” but that tendency was diminished further on. It hasn’t the more psychological moody edge as El Puro and less finesse in style, and of course not as good main musical theme.
The antihero played by Wayde Preston looked like he might be 50 years old or so, but obviously was only just over 40. His charisma was not so good. The two main villians were better in that respect, that is for their purpose.
The so called sidekick, known from Once Upon A Time In The West, didn’t irritate me much.
Even if it is a simple story the execution overall is quite good, especially the first half hour. The raping scenes were unnecessarily extended but on the other hand there was no boring long torturing in this SW.
However I find the music a bit irritating sometimes with too much suspense/thriller alike incidental music, but better during riding scenes for example when there is a more traditional SW style.
According to IMDb Hey Amigo, You’re Dead was shot in Almeria, Spain but I didn’t caught a glimpse of any Spanish soil and these cheap SWs produced in Italy were shot their, often in Lazio.
I wonder though where the rather rundown western town was located with its totally green surroundings. I think have seen it before once or twice. The locations appeared slightly better than usual for SWs shot in Italy.
It is not easy to rate (especially the relative rank) this SW after just one watching, but once more I lean toward a weak 6/10, good for rank 62 on my SW Top 68. The lack of comedy except for the sidekick means that it might have potential to climb on my SW Top list later.
It’s the De laurentiis studio set.
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Thanks aldo, that solved my question. I now remember having watched the position of this location (probably regarding some scenes in Navajo Joe) on http://y-yasuda.net/Laurentiis%20studio.htm
The nature close by still looks very green in the surroundings on Googlemaps 3D so maybe it would be possible to recognize a certain view of the landscape ?
And a correction of my first comment : There actually were two-three short shots from Tabernas desert early in the movie with the statecoach (maybe borrowed from another film ?).
That’s right … there are some strange cuts between Italy and Southern Spain … one second we’re in the De Laurentiss studio and then miraculously the entire terrain changes to desert !! Movie magic 
Yeah, that’s one theoretically circumstance to consider regarding Esperanza railway station even if I haven’t found any valid so far…
It’s just occurred to me that I can not think of any locomotive train scenes from Italian locations … aren’t they all just in movies filmed in Spain ? 
I tried to google/youtube-look on that subject 1-2 years ago and as I remember now (might be wrong) there was a SW with a train scene from Italy. And I DO remember that the telegraph poles came in pairs with one supporting the other. That special circumstance regarding the poles is typical for Italy according to a - insulator collector ! - from Italy that I had hade contact with about a year ago.
Taken together the probability for the scene with the train arriving to Esperanza Station is shot in Italy is very low since the telegraph poles at Esperanza are single and with 4 x 2 insulators which could be found elsewhere in Spain around 1966 at a few different railways, for example at the Murcia station. (I have not found any good candidate railway or station, existing or abandonded near Murcia).
Short clip of amazing quality, uncut and in correct aspect ratio.
Something else entirely! 
Some weeks ago the German Version (that has never been screened anywhere) appeared on the Grinjo YT channel.
It contains the above mentioned “cut” scenes if I am not mistaken
Here`s the link. Good quality in OAR:
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Is this HD or SD?