franco nero and sport a burly mustache and sideburn and star a segei ` the pollack kowalski and an angelic opportunist and who and for profit not nobility and help a revolutionary and paco ( tony musante ) and overthrow the corrupt mexican general . it be a very good spaghetti western and with a nice pace and good action and and interesting character play off one another . jack palance be curly and an obviously gay bad guy and whose prissy demeanor hide his ruthlessness that be until he kill his own partner out of spite and blow a few men head off . the story start with nero establish his badassness while catch a dice cheat and force the gambler to eat the dice and say and when you get them back and i suggest you dont use them again . he be then hire to help protect a trainload of silver make it through rebel territory to the state . nero go to the mining town only to find it overthrown by paco and his gang and and the mine collapse . nero luckily find himself able to offer his help to the rebel and guide paco in the art of steal and strategically avoid and and attack the corrupt army and eventually overthrow it . but and mostly it be not a buddy buddy relationship and nero be in it for the money and paco be in it for the righteousness and yet they both respect each other . ( to give a good example and at one point and while cross the desert and nero make paco and the revolutionary empty their canteen so he can have a shower while they go thirsty . ) aside from nice bit of humor and it sport some religious allusion and such a and paco begin with only twelve men plus nero ( their jesus ) and they masquerade at one point during a religious parade and attack while dress a angel and virgin mary and as well a nero be strap to a t shape cross when capture . there be also a nod to macbeth when paco woman use his power drunk naiveté to convince him to turn against nero . the film make use of an obviously fairly high budget and with many large battle and crowd scene and entire town destroy and plane bomb and and many locale . it have an interesting structure and since the bulk of the film be tell in flashback before return to the beginning and then reach the grand finale . the morricone score be great and and amazingly enough and very understated . corbucci direction have never be well . ( any film that open with a shot of a dwarf clown dress like a matador and you just know be go to be good ) .