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Alfonso Brescia's "Killer Calibro 32" is a decent, although not exceptionally breathtaking Spaghetti Western, which does not get boring for a minute and shouldn't be missed by fans of the genre. "Killer Caliber .32" doesn't contain any new, or very imaginative elements, but the story of an antihero, a contract killer in this case, is delivered very well and although the movie is certainly no genre-highlight or masterpiece, lovers of the Italian Western should be pleased with this solid and very entertaining film.

Hired gun Silver (Peter Lee Lawrence) is a contract killer with style. He will kill a man for 1000 dollars, but he wouldn't quite take any job. He proudly says that he only kills people who deserve to die, he uses silver bullets, and he insists on being called 'Mr. Silver' not just 'Silver'. His paying customers include poor Mexican workers, who want him to get rid of their despotic boss, a sadistic landowner, or a saloon owner who needs him to kill a brutal bandit. Silver always waits for his target person to draw his gun out, so he can always claim self-defense. After doing a job in a little town, Silver gets hired by the owners of a local bank to eliminate a gang of outlaws who constantly rob the stagecoaches, and who killed all the passengers on their last raid.

When I first saw this film, I wasn't quite sure if Peter Lee Lawrence was the right man to play the role of contract killer Silver, since he just looked too young (early 20s), in my opinion. One must say, however, that he played his role well, and after seeing the movie I had changed my mind. Beautiful Hélène Chanel, who plays the daughter of a murder victim, also delivers a nice performance. The cast furthermore contains Alberto Dell'Acqua, whom Spaghetti Western fans might know for playing Franco Nero's younger brother in Ferdinando Baldi's "Texas Addio" of 1966. The rest of the performances are not bad either, but I can't say any of them were particularly worth mentioning. What I really liked about "Killer Caliber .32" was the fact that Silver stays an antihero throughout the whole movie, he doesn't have a problem to shoot people, even if they are already wounded and lying on the ground. The score by Robby Poitevin is also quite good, again, nothing phenomenal, but decent.

All said, "Killer Calibro 32" is a solid and very entertaining Spaghetti Western with a fair amount of violence, nothing spectacular, but certainly a film that my fellow fans of the genre should not miss. Recommended. 7/10

Ordinary Spaghetti Western with regular Pasta actors and uneven direction . It has a contact killer nicknamed Mister Silver (Peter Lee Lawrence) who is hired by high price .As he is contracted by some powerful people (John Bartha Andrea Bosic) from Carson City to kill bandits who are robbing stagecoaches. As Mr Silver track down the outlaws and kill them one by one . Meanwhile , Carson sheriff (Mirko Ellis) and deputy (Massimo Righi) suspect from him ; later on , Mr Silver becomes involved with a gorgeous Saloon girl and the banker' s daughter (Agnes Spaak ) who was murdered at a stage's assault.

Mediocre but passable Ravioli Western directed by a professional director , B actors , a lot of of habitual secondaries and expert technicians . In the wake of Sergio Leone films , here we have a bounty hunter who for money and justice finds out robbing and murders commited by a heinous and masked band undercoveringly commanded by dark forces . Shootouts , gorgeous women , poker games ,a brief intrigue with herrings , and fights in Terence Hill-Bud Spencer style enliven this entertaining but mediocre Pasta Western . At the end takes place the customary final duel and culminating in the unmasking the suspect , unexpected person guilty of the astonishing crimes . The picture is well starred by Peter Lee Lawrence as a pistolero who shoots silver bullets , though he gives an average interpretation , as usual . From his uncredited debut in the known Leone film , For a few dollars more , to his early death Lee made several motion pictures .German born Peter was a young who performed a lot of Spaghetti Western as The man who killed Billy the Kid , Garringo , A pistol for a hundred coffins , I giorni della violenze, Death on high mountain , Awkward hands , but he also made other genres as Adventure such as Black Beauty , Tiger of Khiber and Wartime as Hell in Normandy or his last film a comedy in Spain titled Los caballeros de boton de ancla , there he had headeache and was rapidly operated but shorly after died at 30 years old of cancer . In addition , a great number of secondaries seen in Italian subgenres as Spaghetti , Peplum or terror such as Andrea Bosic ,Alberto Dell'Aqua or Cole Kitosch, Mirko Ellis , Massimo Righi , Nello Pazzafini, John Bartha , Ivan Scratuglia , Franco Pesce and several others . It displays an atmospheric cinematography and an evocative musical score in Ennio Morricone style by Robert Poitevin .

The motion picture was regular but professionally directed by Alfonso Brescia or Al Bradley . He was a craftsman who shot various fims of all kinds of genres as Wartime as Hell in Normandy , Missone subbie roventi, Kill Rommel ; Science Fiction as Cosmos , War of robots , Stars battle , The beast in space ; adventure such as ZannaBianca , The Amazons vs The Superman , Ayor the iron warrior , Battle of the Amazons ; Peplum as Magnificent gladiator ,Rivolta del Pretoriano , Conqueror of Atlantida and of course Spaghetti Western as The Colt is my law , Fury of Johnny Kid , Winchester Bill, I giorno della violenze , among others . Rating : 5.5/10 average but passable . The film will appeal to Peter Lee Lawrence fans .

Alfonso Breschia's not an Italian director that makes you sit up and go "Yeah!" - He's more like Mike Bennett and his involvement with The Fall's Light User Syndrome album as in, he's part of something cool, but on his own he's 'not up to much'....wait that's not on that album.

What I mean to say is Mike Bennett I mean Alfonso Breschia is more famous for releasing four or five Italian Star Wars rip offs: War of the Robots, The Beast in Space, Cosmos: War of the Planets, Star Oddesy and Battle of the Planets although I think that one is also Cosmos. In the large universe of Italian genre films, these are the Fall's receiver compilations and ENOUGH WITH THE FALL ANALOGIES!

This one stars Peter Lee Lawrence (from Long Arm of the Godfather and whom died at the age of 30 of cancer) as the charming hired killer Silver, who is hired to find a bunch of masked guys who robbed a stagecoach. He does this by playing cards a lot, smoking a lot, and shooting people but only if they shoot first.

However, someone seems to be either covering up their tracks or setting silver up for a fall as a lot of witnesses turn up dead, other members of the gang think Silver was part of the gang, and one of three main suspects could be the main gang leader, but who is it? This is as good an Alfonso Breschia film as you're going to get. It's much better than White Fang and the Hunter, the other Western of his I've watched. Very well made and looks great, with a slightly pedestrian story, bland hero and not much by way of great gunfights (although the last showdown is nice on the eyes, it's not very exciting).

Remember: I won't go berserk if you don't scratch my nice blue stagecoach.

I wasn't impressed with the other Peter Lee Lawrence spaghetti westerns I saw before watching "Killer Calibre 32", and this particular one wasn't that much better. I will say that it is not a terrible movie. The production values are good, there is a solid musical score, and Lawrence gives one of his better performances, playing someone somewhat colder and more dangerous than your typical spaghetti western anti hero. However, under the direction of Al Bradley, the movie is kind of dull. The hero's progression in completing the job that he has been hired to do goes by extremely slowly. Maybe this wouldn't have been so bad had there been some life in the surrounding material but there's little action, and with the exception of a good barroom brawl, it isn't particularly well done. While the movie is not aggressively bad, I would only recommend it for die hard spaghetti western fans.

I spent the entire movie trying to find out what film it was using Morricone's music from Pistols Don't Argue. The guide was advertising it as Whispering Smith with Alan Ladd 1948, which it definitely wasn't. Anyway, I eventually found out during the closing credits by the casting.

Coincidentally, the movie also uses Maurizio Graf to sing the theme song 'Amica Colt'. Maurizio also sang a few Morricone theme songs such as 'Angel Face' and 'The Return of Ringo'. Also during the film there was the familiar uncredited whistle of Alessandro Alessandroni used a couple of times I'm sure.

This helped to elevate the movie naturally, like many Morricone soundtracks, but the film was actually very entertaining if you like westerns.

It had style.

KILLER CALIBER .32 is a somewhat average spaghetti western that features a dull lead and a done to death revenge plot that doesn't really go very far in holding the viewer's attention. I'll lay a lot of the blame for that at the door of director Alfonso Brescia, a guy never known for making classy cinema; a lot of his later films fall into the so-bad-they're-good category, but this one's plain ordinary.

The miscast Peter Lee Lawrence plays a gunslinger who goes after an evil gang, taking down the members one at a time. A lot of the running time is preoccupied with genre staples like good time girls, poker games, and bar-room brawls. The characterisation is virtually nil and the wooden Lawrence doesn't breathe any life into his character. There's not even much in the way of action, although that which does take place is acceptable enough; a pity that Brescia didn't make more effort as director.