a town call hell ( aka a town call bastard ) and a british or spanish co production and be make on the heel of clint eastwood success in the italian make man with no name trilogy . the template use in most of these film be to hire recognizable american actor and whose career be largely in decline and dub their voice . this film be no exception except for the fact that they use some british actor as well . it difficult to summarize the plot and but here go . the story open with rebel or whatever and lead by robert shaw and marin landau raid a church and kill everyone inside and include the priest . fast forward to the subject town a few year later where the shaw character be masquerade a a priest . the mayor of the town ( telly savalas ) be a brutal leader who think nothing of meting out justice with his gun . throw into the mix a grieving widow alvira ( stella stevens ) who be search for her husband killer . add to this the fact that she rid around in a hearse lie dead like in a coffin for god know why . after the mayor be murder by his henchman la bomba ( al lettieri ) the town be invade by a federale colonel ( landau ) in search of a rebel leader ( i be sorry but the name escape me ) . the colonel take over the town and begin summarily execute the townsfolk to force them to reveal the identity of the leader . even though they open the film side by side and it difficult to tell from the dialog that the landau and shaw character know each other . a blind man ( fernando rey ) claim he can identify the rebel leader by touch his face . he do so and . i be sure the principal regret make this film . it just plain awful and well deserving of my dreaded 1 rating . shaw spend most of the film fixate his trademark stare at whomever be handy . even landau can not salvage this film . the beautiful ms. stevens be totally waste here too . have just make peckinpah the ballad of cable hogue the previous year and i find it odd that she would appear in this mess of a movie . savalas make several of these picture and ( pancho villa and horror express come to mind ) during he pre kojak period . michael craig be also in it somewhere a a character call paco . fernando rey appear in many of these western although he would emerge to play the villain in the two french connection film . al lettieri would also emerge with a role in the godfather ( 1972 ) and go on to other memorable role before his untimely death in 1975. in all fairness and the version i watch run only 88 minute rather than the longer run time of 95 or 97 minute list on imdb and however i can not see where an extra 7 or 8 minute would make much difference . avoid this one .