Passable Spaghetti Western about a pistolero, Brian Kelly, who escapes from prison by pretending to have leprosy. He is called Stark, Brian Kelly, a notorious gunfighter who seeks peace, justice and vengeance, too. Later on, he is detained and about to death from hanging, then he is saved by a powerful Spanish landowner, Folco Lulli, who offers him a reward to find and return his son Fidel, Fabricio Moroni . Shortly after, Chad Stark finds Fidel who is joined up a hazarous gang led by The Major, Keenan Wynn, Stark's previous colleague at army.
Decent Western with thrills, noisy action, go riding, twists and shootouts , following Spaghetti ordinary trademarks . It deals with an escaped convict who carries out a perilous mission, as he agrees to bring a rebel son of a wealthy land-owner. Brian Kelly gives an acceptable action as the gunfighter hero . Special mention for the notorious American secondary Keenan Wynn as the duck-loving, sympathetic Major and boss of a nasty gang of bandits. And a plethora of usual Italian secondaries as Folco Lulli , Rik Battaglia , Ferdinando Poggi , Krista Nell , Roberto , Emilio Messina, Pasquale Basile , Andronico , Jimmy el Fenomeno , Fortunato Arena , Jose Riesgo , Andronico and many others. Atmospheric and evocative cinematography from Carl Chan and Fausto Zuccoli , though a perfect remastering is necessary . Enjoyable Spag musical score by Santa Maria Romitelli , adding wonderful songs .
The motion picture was professionally written by Mario Amendola and directed by Bruno Corbucci who was brother of Sergio Corbucci, the latter made a lot of prestigious Spaghetti Westerns. Bruno directed various vehicles for notorious comical actors as Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Bud Spencer, Tomas Milian. As he wrote and directed a great number of films. As Bruno wrote/directed several Bud Spencer vehicles as ¨Bulldozer¨, ¨Aladino¨, ¨The Supersheriff¨, and ¨The sheriff and the extraterrestrial little boy¨ and directed him in ¨Mister Charleston¨. And Corbucci wrote and directed various Terence Hill-Spencer films as ¨Banana Joe¨ , ¨Miami Supercops¨ , ¨Par-Impar¨ , ¨Cat and Dog¨ and ¨Aladdin¨ . If you love the Spaghetti movies, go for it, and if you've never seen one this is an acceptable start ; but only for Spaghetti Western fans .This is an average entertaining juvenile that will appeal to Italian Western buffs .
