Dead Men Don't Count

Two daring bounty hunters enjoy their "professional life" by tracking down wanted scoundrels in order to convict them to the law. Dead or alive doesn't matter, the main thing is the bounty jingling in the bag.

When the two of them break into the sleepy town of Blackstone one day, they not only find a corrupt sheriff but also scheming gangs murdering simple landowners and farmers.

On the one hand "Dead man Don't Count" is a lively western with a light touch and snappy dialogue and on the other hand it's hard and merciless spliced with melodrama. Sometimes both these elements can be an uneasy alliance, though - it's sort of like the Trinity series but riddled with dozens of people hitting the dust.

An above average SW mainly due to the pairing of likeable actors Anthony Steffen and Mark Damon as buddy bounty killers. They sort of like Alias Smith and Jones ( TV western series) but they leave more buddies strewn on the floor. Their chemistry is really good. There's a neat subplot featuring Maria Martini as a woman who has her husband killed so she can be with her lover, Steve Rogers, then comes to regret that decision when she thinks the son (Mark Damon) she rebuked years earlier has returned to avenge his father's death. The cinematography and action is above standard - there's a lively gunfight during the title credits with bodies freeze-framing as they fall.