Odd sort of late 60s Western from oldies - Henry Levin, Irving Allen, Jack Palance - with the spaghetti influence, also more violence. Levin shoves in lots of scenes of people blasting guns and horse galloping.
Story - Palance is a Southern raider with sons George Maharis and Vince Edwards, going overboard with the killing and raping so Edwards drops out. Years later Palance and Maharis are still running riot and they cross with Edwards.
This was shot in Spain so there are English actors in it -Sylvia Syms doing a topless swim (she went nude a bit, was she ask or offered) as Edwards' wife.
Edwards seems bored - it's not hard to see why he didn't become a star, at least not based on this. Palance hams it up. Maharis is a blank presence. Neville Brandis is a sympathetic marshall.
Down beat - Syms is killed, Palance and Edwards kill each other, a lot of rape.
Feels kind of... stockly nihilistic. Written by Walter Brough who worked with Levin on The Treasure Seekers.
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