With very obvious shades of 'The Dirty Dozen', ex Colonel James Coburn, in a bid to reverse the prevailing view that he's a coward, announces that a number of men who are about to be hanged can go free if they help him recapture Fort Holman - he had apparently too easily surrendered the fort before to evil Telly Savalas. The men agree to support him, but later turn on him only to be told that there is $500,000 in gold in the fort - which persuades them to stick around.
This is a perfectly solid, unremarkable spaghetti western with lots of grumpy and grubby Italians supporting superstar Coburn on yet another impossibie mission. Coburn is Coburn, Savalas is Savalas, leaving Terence Hill's long time partner Bud Spencer to walk off easily as the best character and actually, actor. The final scenes are pretty good fun and provide plenty for the stunt and explosive effects guys to keep them busy plus it has quite a nice score..
To note: there is a scene that is intended to be tense where a rope gets stuck in a crack in a rock face - this goes on for ages, isn't tense and is in fact very silly.
This is a perfectly solid, unremarkable spaghetti western with lots of grumpy and grubby Italians supporting superstar Coburn on yet another impossibie mission. Coburn is Coburn, Savalas is Savalas, leaving Terence Hill's long time partner Bud Spencer to walk off easily as the best character and actually, actor. The final scenes are pretty good fun and provide plenty for the stunt and explosive effects guys to keep them busy plus it has quite a nice score..
To note: there is a scene that is intended to be tense where a rope gets stuck in a crack in a rock face - this goes on for ages, isn't tense and is in fact very silly.