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The Old West, near the Mexican border, not too long after the Civil War: All Requiescant (Lou Castel), the simpleton adopted son of a preacher who just happens to be handy with a gun, wants is to get his "sister" Princy (Barbara Frey) back who has left him and her parents with a dancing troupe. So eventually he gets into a lawless town run by rich cutthroat Ferguson (Mark Damon), and finds Princy has been made the prostitute of Ferguson's right-hand man Dean Light (Ferruccio Viotti). Requiescant, believing all men are equal, walks right into the lion's den and asks Ferguson to have his sister freed - and after he beats Ferguson in a competition of drunk marksmanship, Ferguson even grants the request, also because he sees Dean Light as his substitute son and doesn't want him to be a pimp ... but light is not so easily to give Princy up, so Requiescant shoots her free. Later, in his hideout, an abandoned fort at the American-Mexican border, Requiescant learns about his true origins, that he's actually the son of a Mexican settler machine-gunned down by Ferguson and men decades back (and Requiescant himself was left to die), and that Ferguson's land actually belongs to Requiescant and his people - whom he doesn't even know yet.

When Ferguson learns that Requiescant has learned about his origins, he kidnaps and kills Princy to lure Requiescant into a trap to find out what Requiescant actually knows and who he's in league with (actually nobody) - but Ferguson's wife by force Edith (Mirella Maravidi), whose father was also shot in that massacre, frees Requiescant and gets him together with a gang of Mexican revolutionaries led by Juan (Pier Paolo Pasolini), even if it costs her own life. But something has changed in Requiescant, and while he was a peace-loving gunslinger so far, now he wants revenge ...

A hidden gem among spaghetti Westerns, this one dares to swim against the stream and does not present us with the hardened hero but the naive innocent who just grows into the ways of hardened men, and is rather good at it only by fate rather than design. But all of that isn't done in a self-serving, preachy sort of way but still embedded in an action-filled genre pic with many a great setpiece. Add to that a great cast, an effective directorial effort taking great advantage of the scenery, and of course a gripping score, and you've got yourself a great movie!

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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