6/10
Enjoyable Spaghetti Western with ordinary actors , catching score and usual scenarios from Almería, Spain .
25 March 2021
Django : George Hilton and Bull : Walter Barnes are two greedy gun-shooters who attempt to take a hidden loot from Confederation . They arrive in a littte town searching for a judge , but there they aware that many townsfolk want them dead and then happens various brawls , duels , fights and betrayals . They'll have to confront Forrester : Arturo Domicini , and his son played by Horst Frank . Meanwhile, the cripple daughter : Loni Von Friedl of a deceased Confederate Colonel seems to have some clues about the gold whereabouts. A Man without nerves , Hard as steel !. .

This is an entertaining Spaghetti Western with plenty of action , thrills , shootouts , crosses , double-crosses , twists , turns and an amazing final surprise. Stars George Hilton and Walter Barnes , giving chemical enough , they form an amusing and tough couple who will stop an nothing to get their purports , to unearth 500.000 dollars in golden hidden by a Confederate officer . George Hilton who recently passed away was definitively one of the Spaghetti greatest stars , Uruguay-born Hilton starred a lot of Pasta Westerns , outstanding the following ones : "Massacre time", "Sartanas's here trade you pistol for a coffin", "His name was Holy Ghost" , "The call me Hallalluya" , "Light the fuse Sartana is coming" , "Professionals for a massacre" , "The Ruthless Four" , among others . Along with protagonists Hilton and Walter Barnes there appears some familiar faces of the common European genres of the Sixties and Seventies , such as the German Horst Frank , Arturo Dominici , Renato Romano , Remo de Angelis and the Austrian Loni Von Friedl who is still playing , here as a paralytic woman bound to wheelchair . It displays a nice and cool score in Spaghetti Western style by musician Francesco De Massi who composed several Pasta soundtracks . As well as atmospheric cinematography by Stelvio Massi , showing the ordinary rocky and barren outdoors and shot on location in desert of Tabernas , Almería, Andalucía, Spain and Cinecitta , Rome , Lazio , Italy . The motion picture was professionally directed by Giuliano Carmineo who often used pseudonym Anthony Ascott . He was a fine artisan who made all kinds of genres . Being his especiality Spaghetti Western sub-genre , such as : "Find a place to die" , "They call him Cemetery" , "They call me Hallaluya" , and directed various Sartana movies usually played by George Hilton : "Have a good general my friend Sartana will pay" , "Sartana the gravedigger" , "Light the fuse Sartana is coming" . Though Carmineo also realized other genres as Giallo : "The case of the bloody Iris" , "Ana ese particular placer" , Fantasy : "Computron 22" , Sci-fi: "Exterminators of the year 3000" and Terror : "The Rat Man" , among others .
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