I pretty much agree with your take on this movie, Bluntwolf.
Some good action stuff (like most Steffen Westerns), entertaining, but overall rather routine.
Early SW from 1965, and one of the few between FoD and Django which is a pure Spag and does not rely on american westerns.
It’s credited to Jose Antonio de la Loma, but was directed apparently by Edoardo Mulargia, and marks so his SW debut. His first out of eight, and if I set the completely different El puro apart, it’s his best out of the rest.
The 1st 40 min were promising, before routine elements took over for the 2nd half of the story.
I especially liked the music theme which was composed for the riding/chase sequences.
My version, copied from a german VHS, makes a drastically cut impression, in which the violence obviously was pruned down. Probably an act of self censorship because the VHS runs only about 84 min, 3 min shorter than the german cinema release version.
I watched this one today. A simple, straightforward SW with nice score. There was a basic problem in the character development, all of them seemed rather one-dimensional, more depth should have been added, at least to the main ones. I also thought that the direction and editing was quite lame in some of the chase scenes while they could have used something more impressive than that stone thing in the ending…
Just a bit above average as far as I’m concerned, OK film to pass 1,5 hour, but don’t expect much generally.
saw this last night, and rather liked it. thought it started well, and was never boring. Anthony Steffen was ok in his first starring role, and the more of his films , i’ve seen the more he’s grown on me.As others have said some good action here, and some of these earlier SW’s are more preferable than the later ( post 1971) films. not a classic but an easily watchable film.6/10
Yes, 6/10
Nothing fancy, just a routine and ok time passer. The Italian title sucks. I much prefer the German one, though the Italian one fits the film better.