Killer Calibre 32 (Alfonso Brescia, Italy, 1967)

In the Old West an elegantly attired contract killer known as Mr Silver (Peter Lee Lawrence) is hired by the owners of local banks to find and eliminate the masked outlaws who’ve been robbing stagecoaches and who on their last raid ruthlessly murdered all the passengers.

Well-plotted and pacy Euro-Western featuring some rough and tumble stunt-work in which none of … Read the rest

The Birth Of A Legend

53 years ago an American television actor accepted the starring role in a low budget Italian-German-Spanish co-production of a remake of a Japanese samurai movie, at a time when the very notion of Americans acting in European movies was regarded in Hollywood as the kiss of death for their careers. How wrong they all were. Joe Leydon has a good … Read the rest