Man from Nowhere (1966)

Giuliano Gemma
Fernando Sancho
Corinne Marchand

Inventory

• Exploding canteens
• Pink long johns
• A musical watch
• An on-going card game with no respect for the laws of probability
• One dead prostitute
• A drunk with a nose for money
• A Buntline Special
• Mixed martial arts

Summary
The movie begins with when Gordo Watch stages a breakout from a prison that appears to be guarded by the Foreign Legion, so that he can restaff his gang. One of the prisoners is an American named Arizona Colt. (Really. I don't make this stuff up.) Gordo is the kind of psychotic gang leader who demands real brand loyalty from his men, so Colt declines to join the merry band. As may be expected, Gordo takes the rejection to heart.

When Gordo decides to rob the bank in Blackstone Hill, we learn that Colt is pretty much equally inept as a bounty hunter, card cheat, and lover. Later, to no one's surprise, Gordo takes himself out of the running for boss of the year.

This movie has a lot of trouble deciding what it wants to be. There are sterotypical comic minor characters, but they are mixed in with Peckinpah levels of violence. There isn't really much of a plot and while Arizona Colt is clearly supposed to be a real western hero, he comes across as an oaf and a buffoon.

For some reason, a great deal of effort was made to keep track of how many bullets everyone shot and there are many scenes of characters reloading.

Last, and certainly not least, the opening credits appear to have been done by the people who did the llama credits for Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Dialogue
"A couple of drinks."
"Two here." (starts to pour whiskey)
"Ah, no. Instead of that, some milk please."
"This is a bar, boy. This ain't no dairy."
"Oh. I thought it smelled like it."

Story

The movie started so badly that I worried about being able to watch the whole thing, but it got consistently better. The end was an amazing cat and mouse play in a darkened coffin-maker's barn.

Music

Okay, the opening and closing songs are pretty cheesy, but the incidental music through the movie is very well done.

Acting

Fernando Sancho wants to be Eli Wallach and Corinne Marchand desperately wants to be Claudia Cardinale. As best I can tell, Giuliano Gemma wants to be an actor. They go 0 for 3.