(1971) Coffin Full of Dollars/ Per una bara piena di dollari
DUBBED
SPAGHETTI WESTERN
The movie opens up quite unique but everything after that is nothing more but a poorer rendition of "For A Few Dollars More" with many so and so unconvincing gunfights. The falls when the men got shot are quite nice but the set ups are way too pretentious and somewhat fake looking.
Co-written and directed by Demofilo Fidani that has a bandit returning two dead bodies to their leader, Hagen (Klaus Kinski). And we find out that the two lifeless bodies are his two brothers, and he demands retribution. His right hand man, Ramirez (Dennis Colt) goes and handles it as he targets a particular family household by burning it down. A witness, Sam (Rai Sanders) is present as he hiding behind the bushes except that he does not quite know they are. And after Sam buries them on the following morning it is during then Mark Hamilton comes back from serving the Confederacy. We find out out that the people Sam had buried are related to him, he is then seeking for revenge, which the only clue Sam hands him is a pocket watch dropped by Ramiriez. And the next thing we know Mark Hamilton then goes on an obsessive rant attempting to find out who it belongs to as he often plays the pocket watch chimes. We find more about Hamilton to which before the civil war he used to be a bounty killer and that he was synonymous for being called "Nevada Kid", that upon him coming into town he ends up killing two robbers after robbing the town bank. In exchange for the reward he wants information regarding the name of the owner of the watch. When Nevada plays a game of cards and he wins the entire pot, in exchange for info, he would give it up for the name of the owner. And just when the name was about to be revealed the card player ends up being shot and killed. Two of them escapes, and he attempts to follow him. It is during then he meets another bounty hunter, John (Gordon Mitchell) and then later save the daughter, Monica Benson (Simone Blondell) of a father attempting to pay a $10,000 ransom to the Ramierez gang who kidnapped her.
Further puzzling scenarios exist such as the star Nevada Kid not taking his winnings after he shoots the outlaws/ bandits who try to keep the guy from talking. He just goes and follows the men who escaped. The lady the bounty hunters of Nevada and John had saved, she does not even express anger or sadness after the bandits killed her father. It is scenarios such as those that makes this film less credible. And although there plenty of gunfights the sets to those gun battles are corny and ridiculous beyond belief on the side of Nevada.
