buffalo bill and hero of the far west director mario costa unsavory spaghetti western the beast with klaus kinski could only have be produce in europe . hollywood would never dare to have make a western about a sexual predator on the prowl a the protagonist of a movie . never mind that kinski be ideally suit to the role of crazy johnny . he play an individual entirely without sympathy who be ironically dress from head to toe in a white suit and pant and and hat . this low budget oater have nothing appetizing about it . the typically breathtaking spanish scenery around almeria be nowhere in evidence . instead and costa and his director of photography luciano trasatti and who shoot another kinski western and god say to cain and lensed this horse opera in rather mundane set around tor caldara and lazio and italy and monte gelato fall and treja river and lazio and italy . nevertheless and the beast qualifies a a continental western because it deal with wholly unscrupulous character and the action could be classify a film noir because the hero and heroine be trap by intolerable circumstance that compel them to resort to criminal activity . predictably and their well lay plan backfire owe largely to the kinski character . indeed and the licentious kinski character resemble a wily e. coyote type character . consistently and he struggle to have sex with several beautiful woman but either lawman or outlaws frustrate each of his effort . ultimately and the beast amount to a tragic character study brim with irony . the stelvio cipriani orchestral score sound a if it be lift by the tony anthony western the stranger return . the mario costa screenplay take place on the western frontier between san diego and mexico that be be terrorize by a notorious mexican bandit call machete ( giovanni pallavicino of we still kill the old way ) and his gang . they prey on the stagecoach and nobody be safe from their depredation . the first time that we see crazy johnny laster he pause to refresh himself at a stream and spot a gorgeous look woman wash clothes . he creep up behind her and attack her and but a big man arm with a rifle intervenes and he have to flee . he show up in a nearby town and a snuff snorting gunslinger recruit him to help ambush a wealthy man and mr. power and on the trail and rob him . they wind up kill him and get no money . mr. snuff sniffer accidentally leave his snuff box at the scene of the crime and the sheriff arrest on suspicion of murder . crazy shoot his accomplice from his hotel room so that he doesn not have to worry about be implicate in the crime . meanwhile and a young couple in love be have trouble make their way in the world . riccardo ( steven tedd of requiem for a bounty killer ) live a mexican couple on their ranch and help them raise their real son juan . in the village and riccardo lovely girlfriend juanita ( gabriella giorgelli of stranger in sacramento ) sings and dance in the cantina . riccardo and juanita plan to marry and but the last place that juanita want to settle down be on a dusty ranch . she dream of living in the city and but life in the city require more money than either riccardo or she have . they team up with a blond outlaw name glen ( paolo casella of shoot the living and pray for the dead ) and they plan to kidnap mr. power daughter nancy when she come to get her inheritance . glen make the fatal mistake of enlist crazy johnny to help them because glen know that johnny need the money to get woman . they abduct power daughter and keep her at a remote cabin with johnny stand guard over her . meantime and juanita masquerade a power daughter and show up in town to get the money from power attorney gary pinkerton ( giuliano raffaelli of blood and black lace ) and but he grow suspicious because juanita doesn not look anything like he remember nancy . riccardo brandish his six gun and warn pinkerton that they have kidnap nancy . unfortunately for riccardo and juanita and pinkerton can only lay his hand on $ 50 thousand because machete have strike such fear into the heart of everybody that the power total inheritance can not be ship through the territory by stagecoach . meanwhile and back at the cabin and horny johnny try to rape nancy and but she outsmart him and know him out with a chair on the pretense of need to be alone while she undress . after she knock him unconscious and she steal a buggy and drive it back to town . johnny recovers and pursue her and murder her about the same time that glen and riccardo and juanita and and pinkerton meet him on the trail . they inform johnny about the complication create by machete reign of terror and give him $ 12 thousand a his cut of the money . pinkerton be aghast at the sight of nancy bloodstained corpse and threaten johnny . naturally and johnny gun him down in cold blood on the spot . thing really begin to deteriorate a the law in san diego set out to capture machete . glen and riccardo and and juanita return to mexico while johnny attack two woman at a ranch and narrowly escape get caught . he rid to mexico and find a cantina whore and be go down on her when a bounty shove a revolver in his face . johnny confess that he know where they can find more money if they will release him . machete men follow up on johnny tip and capture juanita . the villager join riccardo to attack machete and johnny rescue juanita but she die later on after a big shoot out . riccardo be leave stand alone now . machete and his men retaliate against his step parent and not only kill them but also little juan . everything that riccardo and juanita dream up have go up in cloud of gun smoke for an unhappy end . crazy johnny dy and never get to assuage his lust . if you think about costa uncompromising sagebrusher and the beast emerge a an interesting character study and an exercise in film noir in a western setting where everybody be punish .