Guy Madison was a big cowboy actor back in the 1940's and also made a few of those Italian swords'n'sandals flicks before heading into starring in this spaghetti-western. The fact that he was an old time American western star really stands out when you compare him to someone like Clint Eastwood who was so good at portraying the flip-side of what those characters represented. He's also not a particularly compelling character in this movie. The plot is about as basic as westerns get: a guy's family is murdered: his sister is raped and then our man Guy shows up for revenge time. Notably the only nudity you get is not in the love scene but whenever a female is violently attacked. Way to titillate sleazy viewers Italy. The most realistic thing in this whole film, and the only thing that really separates this from more common U.S.-filmed westerns at this time, is the way many of the evil gang is offed by our hero who takes many of them out by atypically shooting them in the back and sneaking around in the shadows. Besides this though there's really not much to make this stand out from a million better Italian shoot-em-up movies.
Silly theme song, "Life is too marvelous for you...":
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