The Last Gun / Jim il primo (Sergio Bergonzelli, 1964)

This early effort turned out to be better than I expected as I bought the Dorado dvd more in support of their more recent fine releases. Livio Lorenzen chews the scenery and has a ball as the notorious outlaw, Jess Lindahl, who takes over a group of bandits by force, then takes over a town while awaiting a shipment of gold. Cameron Mitchell, as the storekeeper, plays lowkey, a mysterious singing drifter called ‘Guitar’ plays all sides and several nice looking ladies are on hand for the outlaws to torment. Not even top 50, but still kept me entertained. This is not up to Dorado’s recent standards but it’s quite ok, although the final shootout being at night is sometimes hard to follow. Re the hat, there are several rather unique ones on display here.