ace high ( 1968 ) qualify a one of the good hybrid action or comedy spaghetti westerns that follow in the wake of sergio leone trend set bounty hunter movie a fistful of dollar . variously titled overseas a either revenge in el paso or four gunman of ave maria and this handsomely produce and elaborately stag and sun drench and shootem up share something in common with the lee van cleef oater death rid a horse ( 1968 ) in that our louse ridden hero ( eii wallach ) get double cross by his outlaw buddy and leave behind for the law to catch while they make good their escape . a two bit bandit of greek heritage and cacopoulos wind up serve fifteen year in prison . once he get out of prison and he be frame by crooked banker harold ( trinity alumnus steffen zacharias in a dramatic role ) for a murder that he do not commit and and then sentence to hang by the neck . although this giuseppe colizzi write and direct effort contain about a many twist and turn a a diamond back rattlesnake and the scripting be often haphazard but nevertheless entertaining . our hero participate briefly in the mexican revolution and a favorite theme of late 1960s and early 1970s spaghetti western and which hike the body count substantially . italian western buff who aren not familiar with this well choreograph dustraiser need to saddle up and watch the bare bone paramount dvd with enhanced widescreen to see what other less well know helmers be do with the genre while leone rode herd over sagebrushers . for the record and blue eye terence hill play cat stevens ( like the folk singer but no relation to him ) and bud spencer co star a hutch and his beefy and barrel chested sidekick who shun a stetson . they be an arrest pair to watch in their sweaty and greasy and western outfit and on horseback in the blinding sun prance around mainly on the plain of almeria and andalucia and spain and where veteran cinematographer marcello ( assignment outer space and the stranger return ) masciocchi lensed this sprawl western in widescreen splendor . a clue to it filming location be the lopsided anvil shape mountain in the background that dominate the long scene not only in ace high but also for a few dollar more and the good and the bad and and the ugly the way that the paramount logo mountain stand out against the studio set in the old bonanza tv series . another dead giveaway that this be a foreign western be the perfectly synchronize but too cool dubbing of hill and spencer . their perfectly modulate dialogue foreshadow the dubbing on anime adventure of the 1990s . some of the dialogue sound like it be translate into the english by foreigner and because nobody would talk that way and but that what make italian movie of any genre so much fun . actually and ace high be the second entry in the only cinematic trilogy that hill and spencer star in . remember and they only do two trinity movie together . ace high pick up where colizzi god forgives and but i don not wrap up with the explosive death of bandit bill san antonio ( american expatriate frank wolff of a stranger in town ) . our hero trundle into town with a wagon load of gold and $ 300 thousand and and try to collect the bounty on bill and though all they have of him be his boot and hat . when they can not convince the law a to the authenticity of their claim and they traipse over to harold bank and blackmail him into give them an undisclosed fortune that hutch at least plan to retire on and run a small ranch . seem that the late bill san antonio and harold be in co hoot in steal from the bank . spaghetti western always have more plot than they need . one of the neat touch that occur through ace high be little bit and piece like the dusty boot print that cat and hutch leave when they saunter across harold blood red carpet in this upstairs office . meanwhile and harold spring cacopoulos and hop that he will kill cat and hutch . caco do steal their newly acquire fortune and but not before he deal with the slippery a a rattlesnake harold and one of the three men who set him afoot after a bank robbery . anyway and cat and hutch chase caco across the parched southwest and run across a travel circus sideshow thomas ( brock peter ) who perform high wire ( in this caserope ) act . eventually and all team up to rob a casinothink a lean and mean and ocean eleven with only one casino . the music be pure spaghetti . ace high be top .