Tony Anthony played The Stranger in four films - Stranger in Town, The Stranger Returns, The Silent Stranger and this film - plus he's also in the Zatoichi by way of Italy film Blindman (Ringo Starr is in it!) and wrote, produced and starred in Comin' At Ya! and Treasure of the Four Crowns, movies that'd start a short 3D boom which ended with Anthony claiming that he made an estimated $1 million worth of lenses before Jaws 3D, the film that ended the trend.
This movie is just crazy - closer to a fantasy movie than a Western - and has no care at all about the fact that it doesn't follow any rules at all. It's directed by Ferdinando Baldi, who also made the Mark Gregory-starring Ten Zan: The Ultimate Mission.
The Stranger gets dragged into a ghost town by his horse, who promptly dies. That;s when a family of gypsies pays him to escort Princess Elizabeth Maria de Burgos (Diane Lorys, Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll) back to Spain. There, the Stranger does battle with Vikings, Moors, barbarians, ghosts, a bill and a hunchback. That's when he lives up to the alternate title - The Stranger Gets Mean - and lets the guns and dynamite do his talking.
Raf Baldassarre is in this, who you may have seen in everything from Hercules In the Haunted World and Eyeball to plenty of Westerns like Dakota Joe, The Great Silence, Sartana Kills Them All, Arizona Went Wild ... and Killed Them All! and even played Sabata in Dig Your Grave Friend ... Sabata's Coming. He's also in both of Luigi Cozzi's incredbly entertaining films based on Greek myth, Hercules and The Adventures of Hercules.
Morelia is played by Mirta Miller, who somehow unites so many film genres that I love - HBO After Dark semi-sleaze (Bolero), Mexican wrestling films (Santo vs. Dr. Death), giallo (Eyeball), shark movies (The Shark Hunter), sword and sorcery (Battle of the Amazons) and Spanish horror (Vengeance of the Zombies, Count Dracula's Great Love and Dr. Jekyll vs. the Werewolf).
So yeah. An Italian Western with a four-barrelled shotgun carrying hero traveling through time who doesn't respect the princess he's trying to save. If this sounds like Army of Darkness at all to you, please remember that it came out 17 years before that movie.
This movie is just crazy - closer to a fantasy movie than a Western - and has no care at all about the fact that it doesn't follow any rules at all. It's directed by Ferdinando Baldi, who also made the Mark Gregory-starring Ten Zan: The Ultimate Mission.
The Stranger gets dragged into a ghost town by his horse, who promptly dies. That;s when a family of gypsies pays him to escort Princess Elizabeth Maria de Burgos (Diane Lorys, Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll) back to Spain. There, the Stranger does battle with Vikings, Moors, barbarians, ghosts, a bill and a hunchback. That's when he lives up to the alternate title - The Stranger Gets Mean - and lets the guns and dynamite do his talking.
Raf Baldassarre is in this, who you may have seen in everything from Hercules In the Haunted World and Eyeball to plenty of Westerns like Dakota Joe, The Great Silence, Sartana Kills Them All, Arizona Went Wild ... and Killed Them All! and even played Sabata in Dig Your Grave Friend ... Sabata's Coming. He's also in both of Luigi Cozzi's incredbly entertaining films based on Greek myth, Hercules and The Adventures of Hercules.
Morelia is played by Mirta Miller, who somehow unites so many film genres that I love - HBO After Dark semi-sleaze (Bolero), Mexican wrestling films (Santo vs. Dr. Death), giallo (Eyeball), shark movies (The Shark Hunter), sword and sorcery (Battle of the Amazons) and Spanish horror (Vengeance of the Zombies, Count Dracula's Great Love and Dr. Jekyll vs. the Werewolf).
So yeah. An Italian Western with a four-barrelled shotgun carrying hero traveling through time who doesn't respect the princess he's trying to save. If this sounds like Army of Darkness at all to you, please remember that it came out 17 years before that movie.