This is one of the hundreds of DJANGO-rip-off westerns made in Italy over the years. This one really has nothing to do with DJANGO except for giving the main character, played by Gianni Garko, his name. It deals with a couple of expert bounty-hunters who end up getting pitted against each other. Why every spaghetti-western, or every action movie in general for that matter, isn't about bounty-hunters I'm not sure since they make great characters in these types of films. The story is pretty standard with revenge and greed thrown in and it turns out pretty much how you would expect it to but it's shot really beautifully so it has that going for it. One thing I couldn't help but notice, watching this on a big screen recently, is that there's a lot of black eye-liner used by a few people here which was a little distracting but besides this it's a decent watch with lots of folks getting shot up. AKA GUNS OF VIOLENCE, 10,000 DOLLARS FOR A MASSACRE and a few DJANGO-something-something titles in various countries.
There was a very similar film as this titled VENGEANCE IS MINE which came out a year later, starred the same two leads as this also going up against each other and was probably shot around the same time.
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