Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla Basco, but a former business partner of Yolaf's- John 'The Wooden Hand', has other ideas.
Direction
Corbucci's camera worships every grain of Spanish dust
Acting
Jack Palance's wooden hand steals every scene, literally
Score
Morricone's weirdest banger — yes, that's a hawk noise
Director
Sergio Corbucci
Franco Nero
Yodlaf Peterson
Tomas Milian
El Vasco
Jack Palance
John
Fernando Rey
Prof. Xantos
Iris Berben
Lola
José Bódalo
General Mongo Alvarez
Karin Schubert
Zaire Harris
Eduardo Fajardo
Colonel
Gino Pernice
Tourneur
Tito García
Tiger
Gérard Tichy
Lieutenant
Lorenzo Robledo
Captain Jim
Álvaro de Luna
John's Henchman
Claudio Scarchilli
Mexican Officer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Franco Nero and Tomas Milian allegedly refused to speak off-camera after Milian kept improvising insults about Nero's boots.
Corbucci made this as his 'commercial' response to THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, proving political cinema could be profitable and cynical.
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