In 1866, prospector Tom Corbett returns to his hometown of Laramie, Texas, now under the brutal control of gangster Jason Scott and his violent son, Junior. With his brother Jeff, a struggling drunk cared for by their maid Mercedes, Tom seeks to overthrow the Scotts' tyrannical rule and restore peace to the town.
Acting
George Hilton's drunk swagger is genuinely heartbreaking.
Direction
Fulci's whip-cracking violence before he discovered flesh-eating.
Score
Riz Ortolani doing what Riz Ortolani does best.
Director
Lucio Fulci
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fulci allegedly hated westerns and only took this to fund his giallo films. The bitterness somehow made it better.
Released the same year as THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY, this is what happens when Italians looked at Leone and said 'but what if MORE suffering?'
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