Des dollars pour McGregor

This is a weakly plotted pasta western with paper thin characters, a bland music score, and lack luster action scenes. Considering that the outlaw, Ross Steward (Stelvio Rosi) is a jittery coward, the $25,000 bounty on his head seems grossly inflated. There is also an Indian witch character thrown into the mix that tries in vain to relieve the viewers' boredom.

The only thing that perked up my interest in this film was when the charismatic Peter Lee Lawrence finally shows up. Unfortunately, he is under utilized here, and the film flounders without him.

George Forsyte (Carlos ¨Charles¨ Quiney) is an impeccable bounty killer who is doing his best to earn a grand total of half a million dollars before retiring . He specialises in setting traps for his victims , drawing them in by using his wife Gladys (María Mahor) as a bait, pretending that she's an innocent on the road carrying plenty of easily purloinable cash . That's why the deranged George jeopardizes the safety of his spouse to use her as a decoy to distract wanted outlaws with a reward on their head . Things go badly awry , however, when he attempts to bring in nasty killer Joe Saxon (Mariano Vidal Molina) . Distracted momentarily by a poisonous snake, he allows Saxon to escape . Later on , George wants to exacts a merciles vendetta , but this doesn't work out either: before he can get to him Saxon is killed by another homicidal bounty hunter called Robert MacGregor (the blond, handsome but cold Peter Lee Lawrence). But then it shifts focus with the death of Joe Saxon and both of whom set off to capture another erratic villain, whiskey drinking nutter and druggie Ross Steward (Stan Cooper) who takes centre stage . Naturally enough, MacGregor's initial efforts to locate him result in him being badly beaten and left for dead . Nursed back to health by tasty squaw Yuma (Malisa Longo) who is considered by the villagers as a weird witch . Other new roles are also introduced, including the a villain hoodlum (Luis Marin) , an old innkeeper, tradesman (Antonio Jiménez Escribano) , a mistreated Indian woman (Maria Salerno) and other unappropriate Indians .

This Chorizo/Spaghetti western film is filled with thrills , violence , go riding , shootouts , excitement , twists and turns . The synopsis sounds plain and simple enough with the traditional confrontation between the good guys and bad guys , a seriously ambiguous figure played by Charles Quiney and a contending rival performed by Peter Lee Lawrence . There are two very different roles forming an uneasy alliance in order to defeat a particularly dastardly person , but it turns out more and more complex and complicated with a lot of plot twists . So along the way there are intriguing happenings , surprises , betrayals , as well as various red herrings which intentionally complicate the action . The noisy action is uniformly badly-made , with sad mood , especially deserving of mention the rip-roaring final scenes , though many of them are set at night and sinister ambient . In adition , there is poor action and interpretation feels static , at times . And in many ways it is a good thing that the storyline keeps on twisting and turning as without that it would be just a so-so Paella Western movie . It actually belongs more to the dual protagonist school of Spaghetti Westerns, most particularly box office smashes¨For a few of dollars¨ and ¨For a Few Dollars More¨ , following in the wake of Sergio Leone films . This is not a great movie by it has some interesting and thrilling moments , although the budget wasn't huge , it occasionally feels like an amateur picture and it has low production values . In addition , the twisting nature of the plot where you can't take anything for what it is makes it strangely agreeable . This is a moody , cynical western with an almost complete absence of humour , dark ambience and being written by Arrigo and Enrico Columbo and María del Carmen Martínez Román , this same team wrote other successful Westerns . But at the same time, there is still something about it which is uneven and it is the convoluted storyline as you can never take for granted what we are seeing is as it appears . Despite the peculiar title, this wasn't truly an attempt to rip-off Franco Giraldi's Seven Guns for the MacGregors (66) and Up the MacGregors (67). This moving film ¨More dollars for the MacGregors¨ belongs to a peculiar Paella sub-genre genre who developed during the 60s and early 70s , usually co-produced by Italy/Spain packing uni-dimensional characters , frantic thrills , perilous adventures , relentless feats , and buck-loads of explosive action and violence . In fact this picture gets to keep your full attention particularly during the final minutes thanks to its action and twists. Peter Lee Lawrence in is a bounty hunter looking for bandits to enjoy the rewards on his heads once collected . Peter Lee Lawrence - generally a rather wooden actor - makes for a solid lead despite the flimsiness of his character as a vicious bounty killer . And Carlos Quiney is acceptable as the ambiguous Forsyte , he is another murderous bouty hunter who catches felons , he shows no mercy, killing them with his trademark technique of a bullet in the forehead who appeared almost exclusively in films for Merino and he was known as 'the Spanish Errol Flynn', playing Zorro in three films which were popular: La última aventura del Zorro (1969), El Zorro, caballero de la justicia (1971), and El Zorro de Monterrey (1971). Charles Quiney delivers a passable acting as a gunfighter who becomes increasingly unsettling as the running time progresses and especially when his wife is murdered as a result of his wrong action . But the most attractive acting comes from Stan Cooper who seems to be having fun as the junkie Steward , a role who seems to have been intended as a Gian Maria Volonte's Indio-alike from For a Few Dollars More . Along with a lot of familiar faces , mainly Spanish , who played a lot of Spaghetti/Paella Western , Warlike or other subgenres such as : Maria Mahor , José Marco , Antonio Jiménez Escribano , Antonio Mayans, Enrique Ávila , Santiago rivera , Antonio Mayans who was usual collaborator to Jesus Franco and the always baddie José Jaspe . And two Eurotrash gorgeous babes : Malisa Longo and Maria Salerno.

It packs a moving and thrilling musical score by Augusto Martelli , including some enjoyable sounds . As well as atmospheric cinematography by Emanuele Di Cola giving a rather dark, sombre atmosphere . Shot on location in Seseña , Toledo , Hoyo de Manzanares, Colmenar Viejo , Madrid, Spain. This little European western was reguarly directed by Jose Luis Merino , providing a flawed movie but containing some surprisingly agreeable scenes and some good ideas . Merino usually worked in rather standard B-movie stuff . He firstly directed comedy and musical , such as : Aquellos tiempos del cuplé , El vagabundo y la estrella , Alféreces provisionales , Europa canta . Then he had a solid run in second-class style , making several Italian/Spanish low-budget, cult WWII , Spaghetti and adventure films in the 1960's and 70s . Merino was a skill and successfully craftsman with various films and some of them work pretty well , in spite of their short budgets . José Luis Merino often used same actors , such as Stelvio Rossi , Peter Lee Lawrence , George Hilton and Charles Quiney . Jose Luis Merino was a competent director who worked in a variety of genres, and he definitely stands as one of the more capable directors working in Spanish popular cinema at the time. Being greatly aided by some decent works from his regular cinematographer Emmanuele Di Cola and editor José Antonio Rojo who worked on and off together almost a dozen times . He wrote/directed numerous films of all kinds of genres such as Terror : Ivanna , The hanging woman ; Euro-spy : Colpo Sensazionale al Servicio Del Sifar ; Chorizo/Spaghetti Western : More Dollars for the MacGregors , Frontera Sur , Réquiem for the gringo , Gatling gun , Seven ride to death ; Wartime : Last Panzer battle , Hell commandos , A Bullet for Rommel , When heroes die ; Musical : Europa Canta , Aquellos Tiempos Del Cuple , and his most successful films are the fresh and diverting adventures : Tarzan and King Salomon's mines , Robin Hood , Rebelion De Bucaneros , El Zorro knight of Justice , El Zorro De Monterrey , and Last adventure of Zorro . Rating . 4.5/10 . So-so but with some passable moments and mediocre Paella/Spaghetti warfare movie , but not at all bad.