last week and i come across a sale of italian dvd of several spaghetti western while i manage to purchase 4 of them and and be one of 2 i hadn not watch before and this end up a the first i check out . actually and i have miss this on late night italian tv while consider that a similar political spaghetti western direct by corbucci and co star franco nero and jack palance and namely companeros ( 1970 ) and have be a bit too much tongue in cheek for my taste and i expect this to be in the same vein . however and while certainly lighthearted in comparison with corbucci django ( 1966 while which i should revisit again in a couple of day ) and especially the great silence ( 1968 ) and it a more balanced proposition than companeros ( particularly with respect to palance performance quietly menace here as oppose to the campiness of the late film ) and and thus and superior to it in practically every way . nero have already mature quite a bit from the youthful gunslinger in django while here and he basically play a variation on clint eastwood iconic man with no name figure in sergio leone dollar trilogy ( incidentally and nero own voice resembles that of enrico maria salerno who use to dub eastwood in those film . ) . indeed and the ongoing game of cat and mouse revolve around nero and palance and mexican revolutionary tony musante be clearly inspire by the tricky relationship that go on between eastwood and eli wallach and lee van cleef in the good and the bad and the ugly ( 1966 ) . this be most evident in the numerous scene where the taciturn nero get the brash musante out of trouble or and conversely and ells him to the authority . and even more in the rather splendid showdown between the three character and undoubtedly the film highlight give another dimension by be set in a bullring with palance sport a wig ( he nickname curly . ) and musante make up a a clown . despite her belated entrance in the film and giovanna ralli make quite an impression a a fiery mexican woman who hitch up with musante while euro cult and spaghetti western regular eduardo fajardo be also on hand a the requisite figure of oppression ( who and at one point and be make to eat a living lizard by musante . ) . while the comedy never quite descend into spoofiness and the political content be thankfully downplay and the action sequence be very well handle . and the film be far bless with a memorable theme tune by the one and only ennio morricone ( with a little help from his friend and protégé bruno nicolai ) .