Mark Damon is gold-loving bounty hunter Johnny Ringo. He annoys a fellow whose brother he has killed and much spaghetti-westerning eventuates.
Director Sergio Corbucci worked in a lot of genres, but is best remembered for his horror movies, and for being one of the inventors of the Spaghetti Western. His first movie of the genre, MASSACRE AT GRAND CANYON, beat Leone's A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS into the theaters by three and a half months.
Although the idea that westerns could be shot in Europe may seem groundbreaking, there were many European westerns before this. In the silent era, French westerns were called "Westerns-Camembert". I have seen westerns produced in Britain and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s.
The most interesting features of this movie are the lived-in appearance of cinematic world, with doorways chipped, and Carlo Savina's brass-heavy score.
Director Sergio Corbucci worked in a lot of genres, but is best remembered for his horror movies, and for being one of the inventors of the Spaghetti Western. His first movie of the genre, MASSACRE AT GRAND CANYON, beat Leone's A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS into the theaters by three and a half months.
Although the idea that westerns could be shot in Europe may seem groundbreaking, there were many European westerns before this. In the silent era, French westerns were called "Westerns-Camembert". I have seen westerns produced in Britain and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s.
The most interesting features of this movie are the lived-in appearance of cinematic world, with doorways chipped, and Carlo Savina's brass-heavy score.