7/10
Very good Spaghetti Western starring Lee Van Cleef and Tomas Milian, often hyped as one of the best SW's outside Leone's Man With No Name Triology. I don't know if I believe that so much but it is very entertaining and very well directed, but a little lacking in "oomph" at the end. I just felt a bit underwhelmed when it was said and done.
Strangely this is still unavailable as a Region 1 DVD, despite the high profile names involved (Cleef, Milian, Sollima, Morricone). I watched it on the Region 2 Koch (Germany) DVD and the picture quality was, for the most part, crystal clear. There were only two audio tracks though, German and Italian, with English subtitles, so I watched it in Italian despite the fact that most of the actors are clearly speaking English which might have taken away from the experience somewhat.
Unfortunately it seems like some of the scenes were never dubbed into English which may explain why it's taken so long for someone to do a R1 release. That or maybe because the viliain is accused of raping and murdering a 13 year old girl.
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