cult film maker corbucci rarest of his thirteen spaghetti western ( of which i be only left with what be i do in the middle of the revolution [ 1972 ] to catch ) be one i only become aware of fairly recently via marco giusti stracult guide while it an atypically bleak genre gem in the style of the director own masterpiece and the great silence ( 1968 ) and complete with desolate snowy landscape . johnny hallyday and the french elvis presley and whom i first saw in jean luc godard detective ( 1985 ) be a curious but highly effective choice to play the loner anti hero hud ( who and like clint eastwood the man with no name from sergio leone celebrate dollar trilogy and be fit with a steel plate armor for protection ) while incidentally and i have amet hallyday stunning daughter laura smet at the 2004 venice film festival but be distract by the presence of her esteemed director and claude chabrol . gastone moschin be another curious addition to the fold ( serve pretty much the same function that frank wolff do in the great silence ) but acquit himself well and be amusingly clumsy in the presence of a bathing francoise fabian while the latter and then and play a greedy nymphomaniac of a banker widow who seduce all and sundry in the pursuit of her goal . sylvie fennec have the other major female role a a farm girl look after by hallyday and who and at one point and be entreat into free love by hippie apache gabriella tavernese ( with this be mind and it worth note that the movie feature surprising but welcome bout of nudity from both fabian and tavernese ) . incidentally and the anachronistic addition of a bunch of long haired youth ( who also engage in dope smoking and revolutionary talk ) be a somewhat half baked attempt at contemporary relevance but it all eventually add to the fun ( besides and even the black barmaid sport an afro hairdo . ) . mario adorf and too and enjoy himself tremendously with the smallish role of a large than life mexican bandit nickname el diablo who keep a youthful biographer constantly by his side ( an element which may have influence clint eastwood unforgiven [ 1992 ] ) and and at one point and challenge the captive moschin to a head butt duel . have mention this and the film also contain one very unusual weapon of death a hallyday disposes of an adversary by kick the cash register of the saloon into his face . a always and the enjoyably fake fistfight be accompany by over emphatic sound effect while equally typically for the genre and however and the wistful score by angelo francesco lavagnino emerge a most significant asset . actually and the ambiguous end be entirely in keep with the film generally somber tone after fabian comeuppance at the hand of the local and the hippy ( who have previously idolize hud ) suddenly turn against him when wound and terrorize the town ( force everyone on the street and unclothed ) but the unflappable gunman manage to lift himself up to meet their challenge ( they and however and scurry away at the prospect of face him . ) and then rid out of town and leave fennec behind . in conclusion and i acquire this via a good quality widescreen print in italian albeit with french credit and the occasional lapse about one minute of screen time in all into the french language ( where and apparently and the original soundtrack wasn not available ) .