7/10
A unique spin on the genre on what could've been another common theme
2 February 2023
Dubbed

Co-written and directed by Mario Amendola, a drifter with a saddlebag over his his shoulder, Alan (Charles Southwood) walking along a desert trail until he spots a stagecoach coming toward his direction. The driver then tells him it costs 10 dollars if he wants a ride into town, so he offers his saddlebag. As soon as he gets in, and of course they're other passengers. It wasn't long a small group of outlaws or bandits begin shooting and chasing the stagecoach. And at first, one may think that the stagecoach may be carrying a chestful full of money or so forth, but as it turns out it was only to grab a single person. Who happens to be a confederate soldier. One of the few passengers riding with them. And as he makes an attempt to escape killing one of the outlaws, he is then shot before the few bandits make an attempt to leave. Which was when Alan goes and shoots and kills the remaining outlaws as the only reason he wasn't caught, it was because he was hiding on the other side of the stagecoach. And before the remaining one is shot and killed, one of the outlaws then tries to grab something from the confederate soldier's pockets. Before the soldier dies, he tells Alan if he wants to find 200,000 in gold he must find and locate the other 2 unique numbered coins as he has only one of the three. But then upon him coming into town, he's then attacked in the middle of the night as soon as a lady who works at the brothel tried to kill him with a knife as a result of the coin he has in his hand. And does go to jail for it and makes a rapport with the other guy called Hondo (Julián Mateos) locked in the other cell across from him. With the leader of the that small group of outlaws Alan confronted earlier El Condor (Mirko Ellis) happens to be the leader.

As I had said earlier, a lot of "spaghetti Westerns" are routine and phony in terms of story and action but this one is quite original which consist of similar remnants to "The Good The Bad And the Ugly" released 2 years earlier but with a twist.
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