One card. One ranch. One corpse. Italian cowboy chaos at its finest.
Jeff Clayton, who has already won $5,000 at poker when the game’s big loser returns, asking for one last hand. This time, the stranger will wager his portion of a ranch. He loses, tries to gun down Clayton in despair, and loses again, winding up dead on the floor of the saloon.
Cinematography
Sun-bleached Almería landscapes that look like fever dreams
Score
Staccato guitar riffs that walk the line between cool and cartoonish
Director
Alfonso Balcázar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Robert Woods became a spaghetti Western staple after this, starring in over a dozen Euro-Westerns while American studios ignored him.
Balcázar shot this during the 1965 spaghetti Western boom, when Italian producers realized they could make 'American' stories cheaper in Spain—and arguably more brutally honest about capitalism.
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