Durango, a debt collector, arrives in the town of Tucson, where he is hired by a bank director called Ferguson, who refuses to pay him his fee afterwards. Durango is thrown in jail on a false accusation but manages to escape and teams up with a Mexican bandit to get even with Ferguson, who has concocted a complicated plan to rob a shipment of gold belonging to the people of Tucson.
Acting
Brad Harris punches with conviction; José Torres steals every scene with one eye.
Direction
Montero stretches lira like elastic—every peso visible on screen, somehow charming.
Director
Roberto Bianchi Montero
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brad Harris was an American bodybuilder who became a spaghetti western staple after Hercules films dried up; this was one of seventeen European productions he made in the early '70s.
Released during the genre's dying gasp in 1971, this film exemplifies how Italian westerns pivoted from Leone's operatic grandeur to scrappy, cynical revenge tales as audiences moved on.
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