Reviewed by MartinHafer 5 / 10 Incredibly stylish but also a bit dumb and convoluted Ramirez with George Martin, among others. And several imitations and rip-offs as ¨ Arriba Sabata¨ (70) by Tulio Demichelli with Anthony Steffen, Peter Lee Lawrence and Eduardo Fajardo ¨ Open the tomb arrives Sabata¨ (71) by Juan Bosch with Richard Harrison and Fernando Sancho and ¨Attento Gringo e Tornato Sabata¨ (72) by Pedro L.

It's followed by ¨ Return of Sabata¨ with similar artistic and technician team and ¨Indio Black ¨ with Yul Brynner, Dean Reed and, of course, Pedro Sanchez. His first Western was ¨Johnny West¨ and later on, he directed the ¨Sabata trilogy¨. After that, he continued with ¨commissioner X¨ series with Tony Kendall, fantastic with ¨three supermen¨ and warlike movie as ¨5 per l'Inferno¨ with Gianni Garco (Sartana) and Nick Jordan. He began directing muscle-men epics as ¨Rocha¨, ¨The Macabeos¨ with Brad Harris and ¨The ten gladiators¨ with Dan Davis and Gianni Rizzo, Parolini's usual actor. The film was well directed by Gianfranco Parolini or Frank Kramer. Atmospheric and colorful cinematography by Sandro Mancori. Lively and sympathetic musical score by Marcello Giombani with Ennio Morricone influence. The picture was lavishly produced by Alberto Grimaldi and his PEA productions (producer of Leone's trilogy of dollars).

Luxurious production design is created by Carlo Simi, Leone's ordinary, with lush interiors of the nasty's housing full of medieval furniture and armors. It appears habitual secondary actors from Spaghetti Western such as Robert Hundar, Spartaco Conversi, Fortunato Arena, and Luciano Pigozzi or Allan Collins, also named the Italian Peter Lorre. Sabata bears a similar presence to ¨For a fistful of dollars more¨'s Colonel Mortimer, as black clothes and is equally infallible on arms and holds a wide weaponry, furthermore in a James Bond style. Sabata is a bounty hunter but his aim isn't vengeance like Django, Ringo or Mortimer but the loot.

This Western parody is plenty of action, humor, shootouts and is quite bemusing. Sabata is accompanied by a rare group, as a grumpy fat (Pedro Sanchez or Ignacio Spalla who played similar roles to Spaghetti idol, Fernando Sancho), an Indian acrobat (Nick Jordan) and Banjo (William Berger), a troubadour-alike wielding a guitar that has a extraordinary surprise. They have stolen an Army safe containing $100,000 so they can buy the properties upon which the coming railroad will be built, but they haven't reckoned on Sabata presence. This original Spaghetti deals about the master gunslinger Sabata (Lee Van Cleef) taking on some owners and various pillars of society as a baron land (Franco Ressell) and authorities (the judge played by Gianni Rizzo) of a little town called Dougherty. Reviewed by ma-cortes 6 / 10 This first Sabata directed by Gianfranco Parolini is very amusing and entertaining

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