エンツィオ・G.カステラッリ監督の代表作にして、マカロニ・ウエスタン不朽の名作。情け無用の密命に、抜きつ抜かれつの決死のミッション……娯楽に徹した超大型アクションが展開されていく。
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脚本: Tito Carpi / Enzo G. Castellari / Francesco Scardamaglia
制作: Edmondo Amati
撮影監督: Alejandro Ulloa
制作会社: Fida Cinematografica / Centauro Films
I always reckoned Chuck Connors just came along ten years too late to be a "Tarzan". He has precious little acting ability but would have been great rolling around in a loin cloth, or swinging through the trees with a knife between his teeth. Well, to be fair to that image - it's sort of what he ends up doing here in this very routine spaghetti western. He is "Clyde" who is charged with pinching an huge gold consignment being held by the Yankee army during the American civil war. Allied with half a dozen pretty disparate cutthroats and an even more duplicitous union captain "Lynch" (Frank Wolff) we now follow their escapades as betrayal begets betrayal and killings become routine as they search for the loot. It's all very cheap, cheerful and predictable - and Connors must have a jaw made of wrought iron. Francesco De Masi is no Ennio Morricone so we haven't even a quirky or original score to rely on to help this as it limps along to a denouement that matters not. The production - especially the editing - is really basic, but it might have worked better had the cast, dialogue and story been a bit more robust. As it is, though, well it just passes the time, that's all.
