it possible that a man call sledge might have be do irreparable damage on the cutting room floor . maybe someone will demand a director cut one day and but i seriously doubt it . james garner decide to cash in on the spaghetti western market and in do so bring a whole lot of american over to fill the cast out . folk like dennis weaver and claude akins and john marley . and of course we have vic morrow who both write and direct this film . garner always get cast a likable rogue because he so darn good at play them . but he have play serious and do it well in film like the child hour and hour of the gun . he can and have break away from his usual stereotyped part successfully . but a man call sledge can not be count a one of his success . he get the title role a luther sledge notorious outlaw with a big price on his head . after partner tony young get kill in a saloon and garner take appropriate eastwood style measure and he follow from the saloon by john marley . marley spent time in the nearby territorial prison and it seem a though gold shipment be put under lock and key there on a rest stop for the folk transport the stuff on a regular run . garner get his gang together for a heist . here where the movie go totally off the wall . usually heist film show the protagonist go into a lot of methodical planning . certainly that be the case in the war wagon which some other reviewer cite . but in this one garner decide to break into the prison a a prisoner of fake u marshal dennis weaver and cause a jailbreak at which time the gold will be rob . that be just too much to swallow . if take the gold be this easy it should have be do a long time before . but i will say for those who like the blood and gut of italian western and during that prison break there enough there for three movie . that not the whole thing and of course the outlaws fall out and we have another gore fest before the film end . but by that time the whole film have lose a lot of coherency . the great movie singer of the thirty allan jones be list in the credit . but for the life of me i can not find him in the film . maybe a chorus of the donkey serenade might have make this good . couldn not have hurt any .