Mutiny at Fort Sharp / Per un dollaro di gloria (Fernando Cerchio, 1966)

[The_Man_With_a_Name]

@GaryHamilton

Query: how common actually are Westerns, spag or otherwise, that give a big role to the French troops who supported the Mexican Imperialists in the 1860s? A huge part of the film is seen from their viewpoint, it seems to me.

Not very common. Off the top of my head, there’s this one, Vera Cruz, Two Mules for Sister Sara, Major Dundee and El Condor (while the troops themselves are not French, they are Mexicans in French uniforms who have switched allegiance)

[runner]

@GaryHamilton

Query: how common actually are Westerns, spag or otherwise, that give a big role to the French troops who supported the Mexican Imperialists in the 1860s?

Another example is the rather unusual but IMO entertaining SW with Nicoletta Machiavelli, Garter Colt (Gian Rocco), fine music by Giovanni Fusco and Gianfranco Plenizio 1968.
It also follows three soldiers of the French troops or rather the two survivors after a stagecoach raid by bandits led by an apelike maniac played by Claudio Camaso. Love story and obstruction of arms smuggling to the Mexican revolutionaries are two themes. Nice views from Sardinia. Mood with a serious undertone but still several lighthearted moments, but I don’t consider it to be a comedy.

[GaryHamilton]

Thanks, both. Appreciate the expertise!