A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.
- Awards
- 1 win & 5 nominations
Gian Maria Volontè
- Ramón Rojo
- (Italian, English version)
- (as John Wells, Johnny Wels)
Wolfgang Lukschy
- John Baxter
- (as W. Lukschy)
Sieghardt Rupp
- Esteban Rojo
- (as S. Rupp)
Joseph Egger
- Piripero
- (as Joe Edger)
José Calvo
- Silvanito
- (as Jose Calvo)
Margarita Lozano
- Consuelo Baxter
- (as Margherita Lozano)
Daniel Martín
- Julián
- (as Daniel Martin)
Benito Stefanelli
- Rubio
- (as Benny Reeves)
Mario Brega
- Chico
- (as Richard Stuyvesant)
Bruno Carotenuto
- Antonio Baxter
- (as Carol Brown)
Aldo Sambrell
- Rojo gang member
- (as Aldo Sambreli)
Raf Baldassarre
- Juan De Dios
- (uncredited)
Luis Barboo
- Baxter Gunman 2
- (uncredited)
Frank Braña
- Baxter Gang Member
- (uncredited)
José Canalejas
- Rojo Gang Member
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaClint Eastwood's contract for Rawhide (1959) prohibited him from making movies in the United States while on break from the series. However, the contract did allow him to accept movie assignments in Europe.
- GoofsWhen the Rojo gang ambush the Mexican army unit the gun Ramon uses to kill all the troops is a Mitrailleuse volley gun. Each barrel had to be laboriously loaded by hand before all barrels were fired together in a single volley. However, the film shows the volley gun being used as a form of machine gun. The only machine gun around at the time was the hand-cranked Gatling gun which the soundtrack also seems to depict.
A volley gun could fire each round individually using a hand crank. However, Ramon clearly has both hands on the (incorrect) twin grips at all times.
- Alternate versionsThe original British theatrical release had about 4 minutes cut by the BBFC. Many closeup shots of bloodied faces and bodies (including the body of Chico) were removed, as well as a shot of Ramon dripping blood from his mouth. The main cuts, however, were to the beating up of Eastwood, which lost a hand stomping scene, and extensive cuts to the assault on the Baxters' house which was cut to shorten the overall sequence by removing all shots of men on fire, and the shooting of Consuela Baxter. (The cut version removes the shot of her falling backwards.) The 1999 MGM video and DVD releases are fully uncut and the same as the USA DVD release.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Man with No Name (1977)
Featured review
The movie that started it all
Clint Eastwood was best known to American audiences for his role as Rowdy Yates in the series Rawhide. The series had ended and he was offered this strange new and challenging role in this movie of the American West that was made in Italy! Eastwood said his wife read that script and liked it. She said it was really "wild" because it was written in Western "slang" by Italians who really didn't understand English. He did this picture almost as a lark, and then read that it had become one of the biggest hits in Europe and then when it was released in America it outgrossed even the most popular current American films and made Clint Eastwood both a star and a phenomenon. Its strange to me that the best films ever made about the American west should have been made by Sergio Leone, an Italian who couldn't even speak English. Clint Eastwood said that all he knew in Italian was "arrevadershi" and all Leone knew in English was "goodbye" and yet these two combined to make an awesome film. As the poncho clad "Man With No Name", Eastwood created a role that hit us like a punch in the face and really re-defined the definition of the true Western hero. Eastwood tore out pages and pages of the dialogue and reduced his character to the bare bones to make him more mysterious. Leone said that he clad Eastwood in that sweat stained serepe to give him a cloak of mystery and put the cheroot in his mouth as a pendant between his two cold eyes and it worked like a charm. He broke all the rules and re-defined screen violence. I read that Leone wanted to make a blood and guts Western and show to the audience "I want them to feel what the hell it is like to get shot" and he does it! The scene where Clint is beaten to a pulp is one of the most graphic that you will ever see. It would have killed most other men!
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $200,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $14,500,000
- Gross worldwide
- $14,516,248
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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