Mainly light-hearted SW (despite a few violent scenes), directed in a rather unsure way but moderately entertaining.
My rating 2,5/5
That is rather surprising, but obviously apart from these two ingredients there’s a world of difference between the two films: the only things in common are the year of release and the presence of José Bódalo.
In the S.C.O. Studios (Acilia) Western Town were filmed among others The Dirty Outlaws, Kill the Wicked!, My Name Is Pecos, Killer Caliber .32, Turn… I’ll Kill You, part of Black Jack and part of The Greatest Robbery in the West.
Just watched this one. I thought the film was pretty average but definitely entertaining. The ending set in a 1960s museum spoiled the film in my opinion. Is there an English dub available?
Other SWs filmed in Stabilimenti Cinematografici Ostia are Death Sentence (the episode with Enrico Maria Salerno), Vengeance for Vengeance and God Will Forgive My Gun.
I am probably going to be in the minority here but I enjoyed this one. While far from being a classic, it is an enjoyable way to pass away an hour and a half.
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Saw this yesterday on the Koch DVD. Knew nothing about it before hand and had never heard of it but the DVD was very cheap second hand. Watched it in Italian with English sub-titles. I thought it was a nice, unpretentious, little B movie clearly aping both FoD and Django and not taking itself 100% seriously. The funniest scene for me was when Gia Sandri escapes from the bedroom and then fights a serious of prostitutes who try and stop her escaping the saloon, punching and kicking and slapping and chucking them down stairs or over a balcony with especially exaggerated soundtrack effects. Knowing that a Thompson was a machine-gun it was pretty obvious to me what was in Ray’s trunk although I was expecting him to pull out a proper machine gun rather than what looked like the sewing machine used later by Hallelujah (as others have pointed out). Ray, of course, was the Name with No-Name’s name in the original Spanish shooting title of FoD.
This was released about 6 months after Django although the director seems to think he used a machine-gun before Django. As this was shot quickly in Italy I imagine it was made after Django especially as Gordon Mitchell cameos as a guy with crushed hands. My German is not very good but I think Franco Villa was saying he was the real photographer and the other name was an alias.
I don’t think this was ever released in the USA - are they any posters or Variety reviews? If not, an English print might not exist.
This is a newspaper article from 1842. Possibly the inspiration for this film as the better known Thompson or Tommy-gun was a sub-machine gun and invented in 1918.
Italian production company Profilms also responsible for the earlier 3 Bullets for Ringo
The story is credited to Enzo Palli, who created Silver, the hired killer of Killer Calibre 32 and The Price of Death, I imagine its Palli’s script and that Jesus Balcazar is credited for jurisdictional reasons. It has a similar strange mixture of comedy and violence plus a specialised weapon again.
