"Gunfight at High Noon" director Rafael Romero Marchent's "Dead Men Don't Count" reached the screen with its plot about the advent of a railroad in Arizona that Sergio Leone's "Once Upon A Time in the West" would handle with greater artistry. This trigger-happy Chorizo-Spaghetti Western has all the earmarks of the genre. The ruthless but cultured villain is forcing landowners to sell out or suffer the consequences. Actually, whether they sell out or not is immaterial. The villain's henchmen gun them down in cold blood and let the vultures clean up the mess. Our two heroic bounty hunting heroes, Frad Dalton (Anthony Steffan of "A Stranger in Paso Bravo") and his best friend Johnny (Mark Damon of "House of Usher"), ride into the town of Blackstone, but the last thing that they imagined would that they will become embroiled in this mayhem. Earlier, before they rode into Blackstone, the hunters displayed their virtuosity with their six-guns and wipe out an entire gang of desperadoes in a crumbling Gothic church. Marchent stages with gun down with style. It seems that the big man in charge of the town, Steve Rogers (Luis Induni) is behind all these murders. At one point, he dispatches his pistoleros and they kill the father, son, and daughter after they have signed the document. Meantime, those happy-go-luck bounty hunters are sworn in as the town's temporary lawmen when full-time lawman, Sheriff Bob Watson (Piero Lulli of "My Name is Nobody"), vanishes. Eventually, Rogers orders the deaths of our heroes, but they blast the earth out from under their adversaries.
Review of Dead Men Don't Count
