A bounty hunter called King (Richard Harrison) tracks a heinous gang of gunrunners across the border into Mexico and he kill them , in retribution they carry out a masssacre . As Harrison plays John "King" Marley whose brother was killed and his wife Carol Marley (Anne Puskin) was beaten and raped. Of course King is looking on vendetta against cuttthroats of the Benson Gang led by vicious Ben Benson (Goffredo Unger) .
This moving Ravioli Western packs thrills , shootouts , noisy action , riding pursuits , but being an inferior and twilight entry in this prolific Spaghetti genre . Italian production filmed in Almeria, Andalucia and Lazio , Rome , Italy , being full of familiar faces , assaults , exaggerated characters , gun-down , lots of shots , fights and with some looks that say it all , including a thrilling ending that is the best part of the movie . Starring Richard Harrison who stands out his strong , piercing eyes and striking look , featuring as a man taking on a band of cutthroats . Harrison is passable as a bounty hunter who becomes into a tough , bloody avenger when learns his brother's cruelly murdered, as he ravages the screen , he jumps , horse riding , hits and runs . Worthwhile watching for a demonstration of the confrontation between the two-fisted Richard Harrison against the dangerous and ambitious killers . Richard Harrison played in Hollywood some minor roles as ¨Kronos¨, ¨South Pacific¨ and ¨Master of world . Then , Harrison jumped at the chance when offered the first character in 1961 ,¨The Invincible Gladiator¨ , which was filming in Europe . He wound up settling in Italy for the next two decades . To avoid being penned in too much as a muscle man , he sought characters in routine spaghetti westerns as ¨Texas the Red¨, ¨Gringo¨, ¨Reverendo Colt¨ , ¨One Hundred Thousand Dollars for Ringo¨, ¨Stagecoach of the Condemned¨ , ¨Gunfight at High Noon¨ and ¨Joe Dakota¨ , even the main role from ¨For a fistful of dollars¨ was offered to Richard Harrison , but he turned down and explaining : Maybe my greatest contribution to cinema was not doing Fistful of Dollars, and recommending Clint Eastwood for the part . Support cast is frankly nice , thanks to the familiar secondary actors . Here appearing important secondaries from Spaghetti Western , such as : John Bartha as a marshal , Luciano Pigozzi or Alan Collins nicknamed the Italian Peter Lorre , Federico Boido or Rick Boyd, Tom Felleghy , Antonio Vasile , Vassili Karis and of course , Klaus Kinski giving a peculiar acting in his ordinary style as a suspect sheriff .
Here stands out the Spaghetti musical score by Luis Enrique Bacalov who subsequently , many years later , he would win an Academy Award for ¨The Postman and Pablo Neruda's soundtrack¨. Adding catching songs at the beginning and finish when out starring Richard Harrison is horse riding here and there . There are fine technicians , appropriate assistant direction and mediocre production design , creating an atmospheric scenario across the Spanish/Italian outdoors , including the stark landscapes , dunes , rocks , and mountains with evocative cinematography by cameraman Guglielmo Mancori, but a perfect remastering being really necessary . Being shot on location in Desert of Tabernas, Almeria, Spain and Lazio , Rome and studios on Elios Film, Rome, Italy . The motion picture was regularly directed by Giancarlo Romitelli under pseudonym Don Reynolds (Il torcinaso , L'oro dei bravados , Si muore solo una volta , operación Rembrandt) . Rating :4/10 . Only for hardcore Spaghetti enthusiasts.
