The read
Critics rate it 30 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 89% of the 157 1960s western movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of famed gunfighter Talby, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 30 points higher than audiences do.
160 audience votes
Key crew
- Riz OrtolaniOriginal Music Composer
- Tonino ValeriiDirector
- Tonino ValeriiScreenplay
- Ernesto GastaldiScreenplay
- Renzo GentaScreenplay
Cast
- Giuliano GemmaScott Mary
- Lee Van CleefFrank Talby
- Walter RillaMurph Allan Short
- Ennio BalboTurner, Banker
- Lukas AmmannJudge Cutcher
- Andrea BosicAbel Murray
- José CalvoBlind Bill
- Giorgio GargiulloSheriff Nigel
- Yvonne SansonVivien Skill
- Christa LinderGwen
- Anna OrsoEllie / Eileen Cutcher
- Karl-Otto AlbertyBlonde Deputy with Harmonica
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Themes
arsonstagecoachspaghetti westerndance hallburning building