One Dollar Too Many

"I Tre Che Sconvolsero Il West" (meaning "The Three Who Made the West Tremble") is an early work by director Enzo G. Castellari. It belonged to the handful of Italian westerns bought by East German television, accidentally, which is where I watched it for the first time in the early 1980s. Watching it again in 2014 was a nice rediscovery, as it is fast moving (as usual with Castellari's pictures) and great fun, although not blessed with a highly original script. Three bandits are trying to get their hands on 400,000 dollars from a bank robbery, cheating each other at every opportunity, losing the money, trying to recover it again, and so on. The cast is perfectly chosen with Antonio Sabato as a young thief, John Saxon in his only Italian western appearance, I think, plays a gambler, and Frank Wolff gets the best part as an actor turned bandit, appearing in various disguises from priest to general.