DJANGO AND SARTANA'S SHOWDOWN IN THE WEST (1970)

 You know how in biker movies they have a bunch of long scenes of guys riding their bikes to stretch out the run time? Well here we get them riding their horses instead. You also get former Hercules star Gordon Mitchell as the head of a gang of outlaws, Django(not played by Franco nero) and Sartana(not played by Gianni Garko) who despite the title promising us will have a showdown actually team-up towards the very end of the movie. Not the best spaghetti-western I've seen but it seems to have been shot pretty well with the usual beautiful scenery on display. AKA DJANGO AND SARTAN ARE COMING... IT'S THE END, FINAL CONFLICT... DJANGO AGAINST SARTANA and SARTANA IF YOUR LEFT ARM OFFENDS CUT IF OFF. 

 Director Demofilo Fidani had made a couple of previous Sartana movies(SHADOW OF SARTANA and FOUR CAME TO KILL SARTANA) and one previous Sartana Meets Django film(ONE DAMN DAY AT DAWN... DJANGO MEETS SARTANA!) all with various Sartanas and Djangos.

 

FISTFUL OF LEAD (1970)

 This is one of the Sartana spaghetti-westerns starring George Hilton(many of them starred Giulano Gemma also).  Erika Blanc appears in her usual sexy role.  This is an OK but kinda standard tale of a bounty hunter in the old west.  The main thing that makes it stand out to me is the villain is a fancy-pants, potentially gay fellow named Sabbath who goes around carrying a white parasol and reading Shakespeare when not ruthlessly gunning down old men.  There's also a bandit named Machete way before that Danny Trejo movie and Sartana makes an unexpected bread-gun by hiding a pistol in a loaf.  Another interesting thing is a game of whiskey-checkers that I've seen in more than one of these old Euro-westerns that I might have to try out some day when I feel like getting wasted.  AKA I AM SARTANA, TRADE YOUR GUNS FOR A COFFIN and SARTANA'S HERE... TRADE YOUR PISTOL FOR A COFFIN and SARTANA'S COMING, GET YOUR COFFINS READY

The big showdown: