poor Italian western

entomol71

Sartana (Jeff Cameron) is an outlaw wanted for 1000 dollars. He is called by a judge in a small town in Texas. The judge with two assistants hire Sartana to free the territory from some dangerous outlaws, especially Randall's band. First of all he finds the sheriff Logan (Dino Strano), who many years before had wrongly accused him of theft of horses. Thus, Sartana kills Logan in a duel. Sartana give his way back and begins to kill all the bandits of the territory. At the end, he takes a fight with Randall (Dennis Colt), who dies accidentally (by himself gun) during the scuffle. Finished his task Sartana goes back to the judge, and he gives him the amnesty.

This western is the third directed by Demofilo Fidani, though in my opinion, it is difficult to understand which of them ("straniero… fatti il segno della croce, "One Damned Day at Dawn... Django Meets Sartana!" and "Sartana and His Shadow of Death") was shot first. I remember that Fidani in an interview, said the films were prepared one after the other. The plot is not bad and the actors either. Unfortunately the screenplay is weak. Sartana goes from one side to the other and when he meets the outlaws he kills them, even if they are more numerous than him. The story goes on with scuffle and gunfights, using the same scenarios (one of this seems to be "il canale della Tolfa" near Rome). The soundtrack is the same in the aforementioned films and the editing is poor. Following the fashion of the period all the actors are Italians with English pseudonymous. If we pay attention we can see some errors. In the film the same actor (D. Colt) appears in three different roles: as a one-eyed Mexican, as a kidnapping cowboy and above all, as Mr Randall himself!! Again when Sartana kills the sheriff, he goes down with his arms open. In the next scene the arms are closer.

score 4/10

entomol71 31 July 2008

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