Acceptable Spaghetti about an avenger who sets out to avenge the murder of his brother . Tortilla/Ravioli Western with a professional Italian director and two main actors from Spaghetti : Richard Harrison and José Bódalo . This is an exciting film , plenty action , thrills , fights , crosses and doublé-crosses and starking outdoors from Manzanares Del Real , La Pedriza , Madrid and Las Tabernas desert , Almeria . This violent Western is set on dirty outdoors and evocative interiors , the star is a mysterious revenger with glasses , Stan Ross (Richard Harrison) , who comes to a dangerous little town , Canyon City , and he searches for the killer of his brother , Bill Ross , and taking on nasty villainous . It deals with an avenger , he gone back from a dark past to revenge his sibling . Implacable gunslinger Ross searches for the killer and arrives in a small town , a location dominated by violent gangs and in which takes place a botched holdup , while robbing the local bank . In that place there is a feared band led by Espartero (José Manuel Martín) and his nasty gunfighters . Ross also faces off a wealthy owner Colonel Jefferson (José Bódalo) , and Bank proprietary : the Jefferson's Bank . Thereby involved in a war between two factions headed by two ominous baddies . Meanwhile , bespectacled pistolero Ross saves a damsel in distress (Pamela Tudor) from Jefferson 's hoodlums .
It is a moving western with breathtaking gunfight between the protagonist Richard Harrison against the heartless José Bódalo and Paolo Gozlino or Paul Stevens ; in addition , a stirring ending fight , including surprising plot twists . This movie is a lot of fun to watch , packing elaborate shoot-outs , thrilling filming , and portentous close-ups of grime-encrustred faces with bloodbaths included . The chief excitement lies in seeing what new and amazing victim can be executed by the merciless gunfighter . As Ross/Harrison becomes involved with two feuding factions and he seems to dispatch new bizarre killing every few minutes of the movie , ¨One After Another¨, by hanging , stabbing , shooting or blow-up . It's an entertaining story with a touch of peculiarity , some offbeat as well as violent roles , and an amazing music score . The picture is a tale of justice and revenge , as a tough man seeks vendetta and his objective results to be a bloody revenge . Richard Harrison is appropriate in his usual two-fisted character , he ravages the screen , shoots , hit and run and kills . The handsome , American -born Harrison may be a name best remembered by Western aficionados , he was one of the most popular actors of the genre from the mid-'60s to 70s , as he performed a lot of cheap B movies , some of them , nowadays , revered cult classics . However , he never became a top international box-office attraction . His acting is often accused of being wooden , but in many manners is ideally suited to playing the steely-faced gunslinger synonymous with the genre . Harrison played in Hollywood some minor roles as ¨Kronos¨, ¨South Pacific¨ and ¨Master of world and ends up traveling in Europe in the sixties where he made a lot of Euro-westerns . Then , Harrison jumped at the chance when offered the first character in 1961 ,¨The Invincible Gladiator¨ , which was filming in Europe . He wound up settling in Italy for the next two decades . From there , Richard went on acting in sword-and-sandal epics , later moving onto the Western genre , wartime , and thrillers . Strong and robust Richard Harrison was a magnificent muscle-man who played several Peplum and Western , where he found his niche . To avoid being penned in too much as a muscle man , he sought characters in routine spaghetti westerns as ¨Texas the Red¨, ¨Gringo¨, ¨Reverendo Colt¨ , ¨Joe Dakota¨ , even the main role from ¨For a fistful of dollars¨ was offered to Richard Harrison , but he turned down and explaining : ¨Maybe my greatest contribution to cinema was not doing ¨Fistful of Dollars¨ , and recommending Clint Eastwood for the part¨ . Support cast is plenty of familiar faces , appearing the Spaghetti ordinary roles , such as : the Spanish secondaries as Hugo Blanco , José Manuel Martín , José Jaspe , José Canalejas , Luis Barboo , as well as Italian ones as Fortunato Arena , Roberto Messina and Goffredo Unger .
There is plenty of action in the movie , guaranteeing some shoot'em up or stunts every few minutes . There is a very odd implementation of shots in the camera work during some particular scenes as the film approaches its climax , such as in the final gunfights . The musician Berto Pisano composes a nice soundtrack in Morricone style and well conducted , this turns out to be one of the most memorable parts of the movie ; a haunting musical background , as well as some wonderful songs . Striking and atmospheric cinematography by Mario Pacheco . Nick Nostro's direction is professionally crafted , here he is more inclined toward violence and packs too much action , but especially this thrilling Western contains long shoot'em up . He directed this passable western , genre in which he would not only excel but one where he would spent much of the rest of his career , as he directed all kinds of genres , most of them co-produced with Spain : Italian crime/mystery as "Web of Violence" , "Operation Counterspy" , "Vendetta at Sorrento" , "Superargo Against Diabolicus" ; Peplum as "Triumph of the Ten Gladiators" , ¨Spartacus and 10 gladiators¨ and Spaghetti as "One Dollar of Fire" and this Day ¨After Tomorrow¨ also titled ¨One After Another or ¨Von Django¨ .
