Raise Your Hands, Dead Man, You’re Under Arrest / Un dólar para Sartana / Su le mani, cadavere! Sei in arresto (Sergio Bergonzelli / León Klimovsky, 1971)

[Mickey13]

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@Mickey13

Jeepers, what a tremendous opening scene and what a great score courtesy of Alessandro Alessandroni, though I am not sure how the beginning is supposed to be related to the remainder of the story outside of the climax, it seems to be artificially tacked on top in some sense. Too bad the rest of it does not pan out quite as prepossessing as its prologue, that being said, the comedic elements of which I were initially quite apprehensive do not turn out incongruous in the end and are well integrated into the storyline all things considered, no slapstick of any sort is to be found here, which is a relief indeed.

The direction is actually stylish and visually vivid, giving the movie a brisk appearance with multiple diagonal shots and taking advantage of some snappy editing, the film is relatively well paced too; the tale as such is something you have seen many times before in other works, but the material here is rendered in a pretty neat fashion and strikes the right balance between comedy and a more serious oater. This is nothing essential evidently, still, you could do a lot worse than that and the movie makes for lively, unpretentious entertainment, one of the more solid and diverting mid-tier spaghies.