27: Gian Rocco’s Giarrettiera Colt (1968)
Garter Colt did not make a star out of Nicoletta Machiavelli. Her acting skills were too limited for that. Nevertheless, the film is remarkable for its female protagonist, not entirely unheard of in the subgenre of the Italian Western but still the exception. Machiavelli, who died at the age of seventy-one in 2015, summed up her performance perfectly in a late interview: “I wasn’t a good actress, I was just pretty.”
Next up: Uno dopo l’altro (1968), directed by Nick Nostro.