This attractive early spaghetti western stars handsome Giuliano Gemma as Brett Landers, a straight up guy who buys some purloined cattle from rustler Jack Dawson and then makes the mistake of taking them to the nearest town. Confronted by the cattle's real owner (Germano Longo), Brett is forced to kill him in self defense, then escapes a lynch mob and swears to bring Dawson to justice. Whilst in pursuit of Dawson, Landers rescues Lucy (Ida Galli, aka Evelyn Stewart) who has been kidnapped and staked to the ground by three outlaws who presumably don't intend to treat her to tea and crumpets. It's up to Brett to clear his name and protect Miss Lucy's honor. Beautifully shot in miraculously unfaded Eastmancolor by cinematographer Francisco Sempere (Let Sleeping Corpses Lie), Adios Gringo also features a wonderful, though heavily derivative, score by Benedetto Ghiglia and a memorable Fred Bongusto-penned title tune (IMDb incorrectly credits Ghiglia with the song and makes no mention of Bongusto). It's easy to understand why Adios Gringo was number 4 in Italian box office receipts in 1965 (For a Few Dollars More was number 1): it's a well made, entertaining film.
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