Called a spaghetti Western but it's not really. It's a Spanish film set in the 1917 Mexican Revolution where Ernest Borgnine shouts a lot as a general who really really hates the Catholic Church. Borgnine's role is only small - he doesn't leave the one set. The star is some actor who plays a smiling guitar playing priest who escapes from the authorities. Some times the tone is light - the priest is in drag - other times it's serious - the army is always shooting innocent people and at the end the priest is killed by a firing squad.
It looks cheap and is badly dubbed. This was the last film from director Arthur Lubin. Catholics may like it. And Lubin/Borgnine completists.
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