Black Killer

This exciting S.W. is plenty of zooms , shootouts , double-crosses , thrills , twists and loads of violence and blood . It is an entertaining Pasta western with lots of action , gun-play and fun . The town of Tombstone is at the mercy of the five feared O'Hara brothers : Ramon (Antonio Cantafora or Michael Coby) , Pedro ,Miguel , Ryan & Slide (played by unknown actors) who torture and kill several sheriffs . An expert gunslinger , Burt Collins (Fred Robsham) arrives in Tombstone , when his brother is murdered , Burt is immediately persuaded to take on the duties of sheriff and he then accepts , but he is really seeking vengeance . There takes place a massacre and Burt escapes with the nasty brothers hot on their tail . The tough and rare gunslinger Burt becomes an efficient Pistolero , acting as judge , jury , and executioner . Meantime , the cunning Judge Wilson (Dante Maggio as Dan May) is assisted by a strange lawyer , James Webb (Klaus Kinski), watching mostly in the background and who always carries two large law books with him . Burt helped by the beautiful Indian Sarah Collins (Marina Malfatti) chases the malicious killers and the ending settle disputes by shooting .

This Italian production is a moving S.W. movie starred by Fred Robsham , Klaus Kinski and Marina Malfatti . The film deals with a mysterious stranger , become a new sheriff , who vows to clean up the town of dreaded outlaws ; and it takes on a strange gunslinger against treacherous gang : the O'Hara brothers . This Spaghetti movie gets the usual Western issues , such as greedy antiheroes , violent facing off , quick zooms , and exaggerated baddies . It is an acceptable , passable Western with several titles as ¨Matador Nego¨ or ¨Pistoleiro Negro¨ , or ¨Assassino Negro¨ or ¨Black Killer¨ that contains an interesting and violent plot about a sheriff seeking vendetta . It packs crosses and double crosses , thrills , shoot'em up , violence , and results to be quite entertaining , though drags at times , balancing in ups and downs . There is plenty of action in the movie , guaranteeing some pursuits , crossfire or stunts every few minutes . It's a thrilling western with breathtaking confrontation between the protagonist against the heartless enemies formed by a brutal gang of Mexican brothers led by Antonio Cantafora . The main starring is the unknown Fred Robsahm and the popular Klaus Kinski who appears elegantly dressed and with a brilliant look , gaining a reputation for his ferocious talent and equally ferocious temper ; Kinski plays as a strange lawyer who occasionally joins in on the action with his deadly law books . Here he plays with lots of gesticulation and excessive gestures . As he is fine , as he ravages the screen with his peculiar face and using suddenly his hidden weapons . This Spaghetti is made during his Italian period when Klaus starred a lot of Westerns , later he collaborated with Werner Herzog with whom played several prestigious films . They later collaborated on five movies : Aguirre (1972), Woyzeck (1979), Nosferatu, (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982) and Cobra Verde (1987). As Kinski starred numerous Spaghetti such as : Pray to Kill and Return Alive , Black Killer , If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death , Bullet King , Shangai Joe , Clint the solitary , The Ruthless Four , Nevada Kid , The return of Clint , and specially famous resulted to be his acting in ¨For a fistful of dollars more¨ . There is a very odd implementation of shots in the camera work during some particular scenes as well as a lot of twists and turns , as the film approaches its climax , as in the final and the customary conclusion . Atmospheric Eastmancolor cinematography by Franco Villa in WideScreen , though being necessary a good remastering and filmed in De Paolis/INCIR Studios , Italy Elios studios Rome , as usual , and El Lacio . Enjoyable and thrilling musical score by Daniele Patucchi , including catching leitmotif .

The motion picture was middlingly directed by Carlo Croccolo , under pseudonym Lucky Moore , and it was filmed in parallel with another spaghetti western , "Gunman of One Hundred Crosses" , which also was directed and also starred by Marina Malfatti along with Tony Kendall , Jessica Dublín , Mimmo Palmara , Ray Saunders . Carlo Croccolo is usually a secondary actor and occasionally filmmaker , as he has played several films as ¨After the Fox" , ¨In Love and War¨, ¨Three man and a leg¨, ¨Yesterday , Today and tomorrow¨, ¨El Avaro¨, Via Lattea La Prima a Destra , ¨Il Professor¨ , ¨O Re¨, ¨Perdono¨, ¨The Biggest Bundle of Them All" , among others .

This film features good performances by the Italian actresses Marina Malfatti and Tiziani Dini. Bizarrely, although Malfatti is correctly credited in several of the earlier reviews on IMDb, and is also correctly credited on Wkikpedia, the cast list for this title on IMDb has been changed (vandalised) within the last year or so to credit Malfatti's part to a little-known actress named Marina Rabissi. I attempted to correct this some months ago, but the change has not been made. Malfatti looks convincing as a Native American, but the weakest feature of this film is the 'brownface' make-up of some of the Italian actors playing the O'Hara brothers who are the villains of this movie.

This spaghetti western has a very good music score and a great performance by Klaus Kinski as a strange lawyer who kills with books that have guns inside of them. He's really a natural for the role. His look and mannerisms fit the character perfectly.

Not only does this western have Kinski, it also has a family of Mexican thugs named O'Hara! There's definitely nothing like a good old Italian western.

This is one of those movies that will have you scratching your head a lot if you try to make perfect sense of everything that happens. It's best not to think about it too hard. Just sit back and enjoy it for what it is. It's got style, action, violence, weirdness, and an interesting though somewhat vague storyline.

All in all, it's pretty good stuff for the spaghetti western fan.

(1971) Black Killer SPAGHETTI WESTERN DUBBED

Co-written and directed by Carlo Croccolo including a small role as deputy sheriff, that has James Webb (Klaus Kinski) coming and moving into a small town called Tombstone with a load of books. Aside from those books he has some guns hidden inside of them. It appears the criminals of the O'Hara brothers has been terrorizing the town and as a result of the reward poster for the capture and kill of one of them being so small, he goes and murders the deputy sheriff so that the reward would be higher. After that one sheriff is murdered and killed, it is during then Burt Collins (Fred Robsham) comes into town and gets blackmailed to replace that dead sheriff. His actual intention is to visit his brother and see how he is doing living with his native American wife. And of course, he is going to butt heads with the O' Hara brothers.

Although, they are a dime a dozen quickie westerns for a fast buck, I like some for it's uniqueness as this movie is a prime example of it, even though guns hidden in books was done before in other Westerns and so forth, this movie more than overdose it.

I'm getting bored with this plot now. A bunch of Mexican bandidos are terrorizing a Western frontier town with the aid of a local banker. A mysterious wonky-faced stranger (Klaus Kinski) turns up. He's got loads of books with guns in them and seems to be some sort of lawyer. Another more normal faced stranger turns up and after killing some bandidos, finds himself the new sheriff. This in turn causes the bandidos to go and murder his brother and gang-rape his sister in law. You know the drill.

This one tries to bring the old tired plot in line with the increasing excesses of the seventies by including nudity (hilariously random when it happens and nothing to do with anything!) and more violence and bloodshed. The rather bloody killing of the first sheriff aside, most of the first half of the film kind of wanders round in circles while they try and establish a reason for the gunslinger to get revenge on the bandits.

That said, they do also have the sister-in-law go on the rampage too – which also makes this some kind of half-arsed rape revenge flick too, but this plot has been driven into the ground and in being more extreme Black Killer ignores the tongue-in-cheek elements that make Guiliano Carnimeo's films of the same year more enjoyable.

I'm guessing though that Klaus Kinski fans would like it though. He's quite substantial here instead of the usual cameo, and is dubbed with a rather strange voice.

*Pulls up chair* You know, years ago, I said to the missus I said "I like Italian horror films, and the Mad Max rip offs, so I'm just gonna collect them" I said, saying in a speaking voice "I'll never collect Spaghetti Westerns…that way lies madness." I intoned in a sexy, breathy voice to the empty room I was addressing as the missus has already left by that point.

And I never did. In fact, I just made up the plots to all these reviews.