1968-08-31
N/A
96 min
Chad Stark is offered his life and a nice ammount of dollars if he is to bring back the runaway son of mexican land-owner Gutierrez . This son, Fidel, teams up with an outlaw band lead by a former military man going by the name The Major. When Stark finds Fidel he is reintroduced to an old acquaintance which makes his job of returning the son a lot more difficult.
Spaghetti western by Bruno Corbucci, the younger brother of Sergio, that has difficulties choosing it's style, hard and serious or light-hearted and comic. This beeing one of the major flaws of the movie. It has some weird and/or cool ingredients, one of the main characters weelds a whip, while the other one is constantly eating peanuts, and there is the major that loves his duck. The story is decent enough but not much innovative. Some of the shootouts are overdone with stuntman falling down the roofs rather than having some variety in it. On the other hand the two lead actors, Brian Kelly and Fabrizio Moroni, do a more than descent job and the movie features some great desert scenes, which are among the best of the film. The score is also over average but not as brilliant as the more memorable spaghetti western scores.
