All'ultimo sangue

BURY THEM DEEP tells a familiar story and one that's chock-full of the usual spaghetti western ingredients: there are shoot-outs, show-downs, and hangings; bank robberies, bar brawls, and belles; characters dying in the desert and outwitting each other time and again. The film also has a kind of timeless charm to it which makes it an entertaining watch, even if it's not one of the best of its era.

Craig Hill's hero is one-dimensional and wooden, sure, but supporting actor Ettore Manni is better as a guy with a grudge. Giovanni Cianfriglia has fun in his bad guy role, but I can't help but think this robust actor was better suited to heroic roles (like his one in the SUPERARGO movies). Overall, BURY THEM DEEP is well shot by future exploitation king Joe D'Amato, and there's enough action here to satisfy any fan of macho masquerades.

This film begins with some outlaws disguised as cavalry soldiers riding into the small town of Culver City and robbing the local bank. Since the Army has no idea who is behind this robbery, the local Army commander assigns the task to "Captain Clive Norton" (Craig Hill) to try to either find those responsible or recover the missing loot. To help him with this task he requests the services of a man by the name of "Chaleco Hunter" (Ettore Mani). However, since Chaleco has been tried recently and is due to be hung the next morning his request is refused. So to remedy that problem Captain Norton decides to personally intervene in his execution instead. Yet even though Chaleco is grateful for being rescued he still does everything he can think of to escape from Captain Norton's custody-until Clive tells him who they're after. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a fairly standard Spaghetti Western which featured plenty of action but was rather light on character development. That being said, while it wasn't that impressive overall, it was still adequate for the time spent and I have rated it accordingly.

Its really pitiful to use the same backdrop for a town bank....i've seen this one in several other attempts at western outlaw films....the characters are all the same dirty, unshaven italian actors that probably get paid what they are worth which is practically nothing....i don't think the story tellers check things like proper u.s. army cavalry uniforms for the period involved...oh well, its not close to being entertaining so i didn't rate it

A bounty hunter is hired to find a bandit who has stolen money from the government. He enlists the help of a criminal he helped put behind bars.

Bury Them Deep is a typical spaghetti western which borrows its fair share from Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy, even going as far as re-using sets from A Few Dollars More (1965). The story is not very interesting and the characters are really no more than standard for this kind of thing. It sort of operates partially as a buddy film, with the two protagonists not getting on and then getting on – you know the drill. It all amounts to a pretty mediocre outing though with little to truthfully recommend it, although it's still worth seeing if you want to delve into the more obscure corners of the spaghetti western genre.

Bury Them Deep is directed by Paolo Moffa and written by Enzo Dell'Aquila. It stars Craig Hill, Ettore Manni, Giovanni Cianfriglia (as Ken Wood) and José Greci. Music is by Nino Fidenco and cinematography by Franco Villa.

Essentially it's a buddy buddy spagwest, with the plot seeing Hill and Manni as an unlikely pair brought together in the search for stolen gold. The booty, robbed from the army, has been hidden by renowned tough guy Billy The Gun (Cianfriglia). It's very much a collage of other genre movies, but that doesn't mean it isn't fun and exciting, because it is - that is on proviso you are not a hard core spagwest fan hoping for something to reach your best of lists!

First half of pic is more sedate than the second, as the makers build the jittery relationship between the two protags. Aided by Fidenco's schizophrenic - irritatingly catchy - musical score (woodwind and percussion on acid sometimes), tone always suggests a tongue in cheek approach. Not to say there isn't violence, since there is lots of it, shoot-outs, an extended knife fight and general raucous bad behaviour fill out the story, all completed with spagwest traditions such as exaggerated dives and punches.

There's some nifty scenes and inventive camera shots, where we like see-saw hangings, great escape from being trussed up, and up-tilt shots of horses leaping. The stunt work is good dollar, with plenty of deaths from heights (cliffs and windows of course), this certainly doesn't lack for human efforts. The villains, in among shifting allegiances and mistrust, are a roll call of laughing hyena Mexicans, or in Cianfriglia's case (looking suspiciously like Burt Reynolds here!), very cool and measured. All in all it's not top line spaghetti, but filling enough for those after a fun genre time waster. 6.5/10