Several pillars of society have robbed an Army safe containing $100,000 so they can buy the land upon which the coming railroad will be built. But they haven't reckoned on the presence of the master gunslinger, Sabata.
Practical Effects
Ridiculous custom weapons that would make Q Branch weep
Acting
Lee Van Cleef's thousand-yard stare doing ALL the work
Production
Spanish desert standing in for Texas with zero shame
Director
Gianfranco Parolini
Lee Van Cleef
Sabata
William Berger
Banjo
Ignazio Spalla
Carrincha
Aldo Canti
Indio
Franco Ressel
Stengel
Antonio Gradoli
Ferguson
Linda Veras
Jane
Claudio Undari
Oswald
Gianni Rizzo
Judge O'Hara
Spartaco Conversi
Slim
Carlo Tamberlani
Nichols
Luciano Pigozzi
False Father Brown
Marco Zuanelli
Sharky
Franco Marletta
Captain
Andrea Aureli
Daniel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the first in a trilogy—Lee Van Cleef returned for two more Sabata films, though the second one secretly replaced him with Yul Brynner for the Israeli market.
Parolini basically invented the 'weird weapons' spaghetti western here; every gadget Sabata pulls from his coat influenced decades of imitators, including video games like Red Dead Redemption.
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