(1968) A Pistol for 100 Coffins/ Una pistola per cento bare
DUBBED
SPAGHETTI WESTERN
It opens with recruit confederate soldier, Jim Slate (Peter Lee Lawrence) refusing to fire a gun because he says his religion prevents him to do so. So he's then sentenced to a prison camp of hard labor. And just when the civil war was over, he is then let go and upon his arrival to his family home, he then discovers his mom and dad both killed and murdered, motivating him to seek retribution to those responsible. And because he has no experience into using a colt, he then asks his friend, Cassidy to train him to use one before he gives him the names of the four men responsible. The first three men Jim killed was no problem, but the fourth one by the name of Corbett (Piero Lulli) after stopping by to a different town called Galveston, Texas who are in desperate for a new sheriff. Jim later finds out that Corbett is the current leader of some ruthless outlaws who raided the town's bank, assuming there was going to be $200,000 waiting for them, and they were disappointed that the town never received that money, which leaves the question how did Corbett and his gang of outlaws ever find out about that money in the first place unless the gang themselves got themselves an informer. At first Jim was reluctant to be the town's sheriff but as soon as he found out Corbett was the leader of the gang it forced him by the hand to accept the job with the help of reinforcements of the community, including the town mayor (Julio Peña), the undertaker name Ben (Franco Pesce) and a preacher named Douglas (John Ireland) along with many others.
I like the unique spin of this movie such as the revelation that the Corbett character was a leader of the gang of outlaws, as well as that there could be a possibility of a fifth person involved in the murder of Jim's parents. But had this movie received a bigger budget, it may have covered up some of the inconsistencies regarding the plot. Therefore, you can only appreciate what is shown so far and hope a much higher rebooted version can be made in the future.
