Sam Foster, a bounty hunter, is wounded during a shootout and takes refuge in the home of Jimmy and Mary, two siblings who live in a small farm.Sam Foster, a bounty hunter, is wounded during a shootout and takes refuge in the home of Jimmy and Mary, two siblings who live in a small farm.Sam Foster, a bounty hunter, is wounded during a shootout and takes refuge in the home of Jimmy and Mary, two siblings who live in a small farm.
Mariano Vidal Molina
- Sonora
- (as Vidal Molina)
José Luis Lluch
- Ricardo
- (as Jose L. Lluch)
Julio Pérez Tabernero
- Jimmy Patterson
- (as Julio P. Tabernero)
Rafael Luis Calvo
- White Feather
- (uncredited)
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Sam Foster : James Philbrook , a tough bounty hunter pursues some bandits led by Sonora : Mariano Vidal Molina , then he is suddenly attacked by Indians . Sam is wounded and is then healed by Mary Patterson : Nuria Torray . Meanwhile , Sonora and her brother Jimmy Patterson : Julio Pérez Tabernero , assault a bank and they shoot a banker . Later on , a posse formed by a sheriff : Alfonso Rojas , deputies and a group of volunteers set out in pursuit the nasty robbers .
Short budget and poor Paella western with usual ingredients such as noisy action , chases ,thrills , go riding and shootouts . There is plenty of shots and fights in the movie , guaranteeing some crossfires or stunts every few minutes . Below average Tortilla western filmed in Madrid outskirts and in a location called Seseña , a place similar to very known Almería , where in the 60s and 70s were made lots of Spaghetti Westerns. It stars James Philbrook , an American second-class actor who played several Westerns as American as European . In the film appears customary actors from Spaghetti or Paella Western as Alfonso Rojas , Julio Tabernero , Rafael Vaquero , Perla Cristal, José Sancho and Mariano Vidal Molina . It contains an atmospheric and functional cinematography by Pablo Ripoll. And an anti-climatic and inappropriate musical score by Fernando García Morcillo.
This ¨Tortilla¨ or ¨Gazpacho¨ Western was poorly made by León Klimovsky , it has a number of flaws and gaps , being strictly a Western fodder . This was his third western , though the first was a comical Western titled ¨Torrejon City¨ starred by Tony Leblanc , the second was ¨Alambradas De Violencia¨ or ¨A few dollars for Django¨ with Anthony Steffen . León subsequently directed other westerns , most of them pretty mediocre , such as ¨Reverendo Colt¨ , ¨One dollar , one tomb¨ , ¨Fuera De Ley¨ , ¨Hand up dead man¨ , ¨Quinto fighting pound¨ , among others . León was a craftsman who directed all kinds of genres , as Warlike : ¨June 44 attack force Normandy¨ , ¨A bullet for Rommel¨ , ¨Bridge over Elba¨ , being expert on terror genre with his fetish actor , Paul Naschy , as ¨Night of Walpurgis¨ , ¨Revolt of dead ones¨ , ¨A dragonfly for each dead¨ , ¨Marshall of hell¨ , and ¨Doctor Jekill versus Wolfman¨.
Short budget and poor Paella western with usual ingredients such as noisy action , chases ,thrills , go riding and shootouts . There is plenty of shots and fights in the movie , guaranteeing some crossfires or stunts every few minutes . Below average Tortilla western filmed in Madrid outskirts and in a location called Seseña , a place similar to very known Almería , where in the 60s and 70s were made lots of Spaghetti Westerns. It stars James Philbrook , an American second-class actor who played several Westerns as American as European . In the film appears customary actors from Spaghetti or Paella Western as Alfonso Rojas , Julio Tabernero , Rafael Vaquero , Perla Cristal, José Sancho and Mariano Vidal Molina . It contains an atmospheric and functional cinematography by Pablo Ripoll. And an anti-climatic and inappropriate musical score by Fernando García Morcillo.
This ¨Tortilla¨ or ¨Gazpacho¨ Western was poorly made by León Klimovsky , it has a number of flaws and gaps , being strictly a Western fodder . This was his third western , though the first was a comical Western titled ¨Torrejon City¨ starred by Tony Leblanc , the second was ¨Alambradas De Violencia¨ or ¨A few dollars for Django¨ with Anthony Steffen . León subsequently directed other westerns , most of them pretty mediocre , such as ¨Reverendo Colt¨ , ¨One dollar , one tomb¨ , ¨Fuera De Ley¨ , ¨Hand up dead man¨ , ¨Quinto fighting pound¨ , among others . León was a craftsman who directed all kinds of genres , as Warlike : ¨June 44 attack force Normandy¨ , ¨A bullet for Rommel¨ , ¨Bridge over Elba¨ , being expert on terror genre with his fetish actor , Paul Naschy , as ¨Night of Walpurgis¨ , ¨Revolt of dead ones¨ , ¨A dragonfly for each dead¨ , ¨Marshall of hell¨ , and ¨Doctor Jekill versus Wolfman¨.
After being ambushed by hostile Indians, a bounty hunter by the name of "Sam Foster" (James Philbrook) manages to ride to a nearby abandoned fort where a young woman named "Mary Patterson" (Nuria Torray) is able to successfully bandage his wounds without any major problems. While he's mending, however, he hears reports about a bank robbery in the town nearby and-being a bounty hunter-he immediately sets out to round up the suspects involved. The problem is that Mary's younger brother "Jimmy Patterson" (Julio Perez Tabernero) is mixed up with these outlaws and the mere mention of his culpability immediately turns her against Sam. To complicate matters even more, Jimmy already holds an intense dislike for Sam which makes any encounter between the two fraught with danger for both people involved. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this could have been an okay Spanish Western if not for the poor editing and rather shallow character development. On that note, it definitely could have used a bit more passion between Sam and Mary-or possibly even Jimmy and "Rita" (Perla Cristal). Likewise, I should also mention that this film goes by various titles with the one I happened to watch being called "Django, a Bullet for You" even though the actual character named "Django" is not in this film. No doubt the fact that this was a low-budget, grade-B film probably necessitated gimmicks of this nature for financially reasons if nothing else. Be that as it may, while this wasn't a bad movie necessarily, it definitely could have used some improvement and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly below average.
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