Richard Martin (Enrico Maria Salerno, who is Jesus in Pasolini's The Gospel According to St. Matthew and the inspector in The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, but perhaps just as importantly the Italian voice for Clint Eastwood in Leone's movies) is a master of shooting guns whose hands are ruined when he ends up on a train that's robbed by his former student Billy Kane (Venantino Venantini, City of the Living Dead).
Now, Martin is left to only be a drunken huckster, taking is traveling carnival to dusty small towns in the hopes of just surviving. He was once a sharpshooter but his mangled hands mean that he can only train others and now that his latest student has been killed, he doesn't have much hope left. That's when he meets Ricky Shot (Terry Jenkins, who was only in one other movie, the doomed western musical Paint Your Wagon), the man who was framed for the train robbery. Together, they both have plans for revenge.
Massimo Dallamano is a director that I love that doesn't get the praise that other Italian genre directors receive. Starting as the cinematographer on Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More, his films are all standouts in their subgenres, like the giallo masterwork What Have You Done to Solange? And the cops vs. Mad bombers poliziottescocraziness of Colt 38 Special Squad (recently release by Arrow in their Years of Lead box set). Sadly, Dallamano died in a car accident after that film, robbing the world of what might have been.
Now, Martin is left to only be a drunken huckster, taking is traveling carnival to dusty small towns in the hopes of just surviving. He was once a sharpshooter but his mangled hands mean that he can only train others and now that his latest student has been killed, he doesn't have much hope left. That's when he meets Ricky Shot (Terry Jenkins, who was only in one other movie, the doomed western musical Paint Your Wagon), the man who was framed for the train robbery. Together, they both have plans for revenge.
Massimo Dallamano is a director that I love that doesn't get the praise that other Italian genre directors receive. Starting as the cinematographer on Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More, his films are all standouts in their subgenres, like the giallo masterwork What Have You Done to Solange? And the cops vs. Mad bombers poliziottescocraziness of Colt 38 Special Squad (recently release by Arrow in their Years of Lead box set). Sadly, Dallamano died in a car accident after that film, robbing the world of what might have been.