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Blindman (Tony Anthony - motto: "Having no eyes makes you half a
man. Having no eyes & no money ... now that's a bitch.") is on
the quest for 50 prostitutes he promised to 50 miners as mail order
brides but who he was cheated out of by his business associate. Said
business associate has sold the girls to Mexican bandit Domingo (Lloyd
Battista), as he confesses before dying from a dynamite overdose, &
Domingo, who has a whole gang of cutthroats to guard his women, proves
to be a tough nut to crack. He for example sells the women to a troop of
soldiers but after having received their money, kills them all except
for their general (Raf Baldassare), who he keeps for ransom, & at
his first meeting with Blindman, he beats & humiliates him before
throwing him out. But he also has a weak spot, his brother Candy (Ringo
Starr), who is in love with a gringa, Pilar (Agneta Eckemyr), who
rejects him of course. Blindman soon uses that to his advantage, using
Pilar as bait to capture Candy & then exchanging him for the 50
women ... but unfortunately the 50 women he gets from Domingo are not
his 50 prostitutes but 50 girls in cahoots with the gangsters, soon
leading to his capture & torture by Domingo. But of course, our
Blindman soon frees himself & can even help the general to escape
too, & he still has a trick or 2 up his sleeve: He uses Pilar as
bait again to lure Candy into an abandoned mine & then blow him up,
before the very eyes of Domingo & his men, who followed Candy -
meanwhile giving Blindman enough time to free his girls, who are soon
rounded up by Domingo's men like cattle, though, & some of them
raped & killed. But Blindman has obviously foreseen this, meanwhile
blowing up parts of Domingo's headquarters & binding his sister (Magda
Konopka) to a post in the nude. That same night, he has Candy's funeral
rites interrupted by a series of explosions & lures away all the men
from their headquarters again - only Domingo's sister has brains enough
to stay behind & actually attack Blindman, who manages to kill her,
instead. In the final confrontation, Blindman seems to be hopelessly
outnumbered by Domingo & his men ... until the general & his
soldiers show up, giving our hero the needed support & killing all
of Domingo's men. & the general is even burning out Domingo's eyes
to make the fight between him & Blindman fair & square, &
Blindman of course wins. Upon leaving the scene, the general takes with
him Blindman's 50 women though ... Beautifully photographed
story that also has a story that is more original than your usual
Italo-Western - & that's not just because the hero happens to be
blind - that has a refreshingly immoral premise (all of the characters
fight over 50 [!] women each of them wants to sell off anyway) for the
proceedings, almost immediately abolishing the borders between good
& evil. The use of Stelvio Cipriani, as well as the score itself, is
pretty adequate, but less innovative, actually more along the lines of a
standard Italo-Western ... but a good one at that.
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