Spaghetti Western starring Lee Van Cleef (who also sings songs on the soundtrack!) as a native American cavalry officer investigating a murder... and eventually uncovers a plot to assassinate President Grant. You don't find that out until towards the end of the movie but I'm telling you up front because it'll make this easier to follow - it's a bit over the shop, the sort of early 70s crazy movie that Quentin Tarantino likes.
There's a lot of non-traditional Western features to this movie - the finale mostly takes place on a train, there's a long hallucination sequence, odd camera angles. Stuart Whitman (mysterious businessman) and Carroll Baker (shady lady who has a series of lovers and winds up with Van Cleef) give the support cast genuine class. Philip Yordan was one of the screenwriters.
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