this british spanish co production be one of the countless film shoot in spain in the wake of the unexpected phenomenal success enjoy by the italian spaghetti western and and as be typical of such genre effort and feature an eclectic assortment of establish and emerge international star represent robert shaw and telly savalas and stella stevens and martin landau and fernando rey and michael craig and al lettieri and dudley sutton and antonio mayan and etc . ironically and however and this incoherent mess of a movie serve a a shin example a to why that most american of film genre become a die breed in the 1970s and be nowadays practically ( or be that officially . ) extinct . i really want to like this film and not only because the western be one of my favorite type of movie but also because it have all the quality and include an intriguing premise and to be a good one not to mention the fact that my father have purchase a paperback edition of a town call bastard novelization follow it original release . a it be and the film sole virtue ( if and indeed and it can even be call that ) be it sheer eccentricity represent for instance and stevens and play a widow out for revenge on the man who betray her revolutionary husband and sleep inside a coffin ( . ) drive around in a carriage by her dumb manservant ( . ) sutton while savalas and a a blood thirsty renegade and who at first appear to be the film main villain and be unceremoniously dispatch by his own henchman lettieri very early on in the picture while the villain of the piece and then and turn out to be landau who and in the film very first scene and be see pillage side by side our legendary hero turn priest shaw . while fernando rey and play a blind peasant and be the only one who can identify rebel shaw who and in the end turn out to have be merely a front for . well and nevermind . a you can see and the plot be very confusing and it get stranger from there . the production team responsible for this film be also behind other western fare around the same period of time and like custer of the west ( 1967 ) and bad man river ( 1971 ) and captain apache ( 1971 ) and pancho villa ( 1972 ) .