
Genres: West
Starring: Gianni Rizzo, Klaus Kinski, Andrea Scotti, Fernando Sancho, Gianni Garko, William Berger, Sydney Chaplin
Director(s): Gianfranco Parolini
Country: Italy, West Germany, France
Year: 1968
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
IMDB Rating: 6.2 out of 10 (290 votes)
After a stagecoach is robbed and the passengers murdered, a long and tangled series of surprise attacks a murderous double-crosses leaves the coachs strongbox in the hands of the killer Lasky. It is up to the legendary hero Sartana to track down the missing money and determine just who is ultimately behind the grisly robberies and killings.
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marc-366 (24 May 2012)
Sartana (played superbly by John Garko) has one of the greatestentrances on screen of all the Spaghetti protagonists. When accused oflooking like a scarecrow, he utters the classic line "I am yourpallbearer" before gunning down all the bandits facing him. A classicmoment, with the black clad Sartana setting the scene perfectly forthis Gothic tinged western.The story itself is a very complicated affair, and one which I'm notcompletely sure I followed from beginning to end (I blame the wineconsumption). In simple terms, the story evolves around a stagecoachrobbery and murder (with the culprits themselves hijacked and massacredby Lasky - played by the ever brilliant William Berger - and his gang).Enter Sartana, in the midst of further double crossing and more doublecrossing. And cue bloodshed aplenty! Sartana combines the gadgetry of Parolini's later Sabata movies, withthe darkness and brutality of Django. There are classic performancesfrom Garko and Berger together with the familiar faces of FernandoSancho and Klaus Kinski.The success of Sartana is clearly demonstrated by the string of sequels(and name-checks) that followed. And rightly so, the character is inequal parts cool, mysterious and deadly. Much like the film. I justwish I understood it better (time to put away the bottle, and rewindthe video perhaps).
Mractionadventure (23 May 2012)
This is my fifth spaghetti western review and i am going to review thefirst Sartana movie.This is a classic spaghetti western and it feels just like an AmericanB western from the 1950s.The plot of the movie is about a gunslingergoing after stolen gold from a stagecoach robbery,as you'd expect froma spaghetti western,tons of action follows.I was very impressed with the action in the film, it includes reallyloud shootouts and explosions and there is a very high bodycount,thescene where the stagecoach is chased,shot at and robbed is veryimpressive,this scene is followed by the outlaws who robbed thestagecoach being all shot dead by some of there fellowcomrades,immediately after this,the comrades are killed off by a theirleader who uses a Gattling gun to get rid of them.The rest of theaction includes sartana chasing the bad guys and getting involved inshootouts with them,one brilliant scene is where Sartana bursts intothe baddies ranch all guns blazing leading to an epic scale shootout inwhich several people are shot down. There's also a very good duel atthe end and all the action is more than satisfactory.The movie has a lot of very strong characters who are unique in theirown little way.This is an excellent movie and i highly recommend yousee it,it's my favourite Sartana movie so far.
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