This film begins with a cowboy by the name of "Gary Hamilton" (Anthony Steffen) wandering alone in the desert and in desperate need of water. Suddenly he hears a sound and upon going to check it out stumbles upon a peddler (played by Jose Calvo) who sells him some water and a mule to carry him into the town of Paso Bravo approximately 20 miles away. When he finally arrives there he immediately finds himself caught in a deadly crossfire which ends up with two men on one side dead--along with his mule. Although he is not armed he insists on being recompensed from the leader of the winning side. Yet even though his demand is honored, what he doesn't realize is that he has just made some enemies who don't forgive or forget too easily. On that same note, what nobody in the town of Paso Bravo fully understand is that Gary has come to Paso Bravo for a reason and it involves a mysterious fire that killed his wife and child while he was in prison-and he doesn't forgive or forget too easily either. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that I was not at all impressed with this movie for several reasons. For starters, the film was poorly edited and as a result the scenes did not flow very smoothly from one to another. Likewise, the dubbing from Italian to English could have also used some improvement as well. In addition to that, I didn't really care for the ending either. Now, it is possible that there are a couple of versions of this film out there and the one I watched wasn't one of the better ones available. Maybe. Be that as it may, I can only comment on what was available to me and the faults just mentioned were much too obvious to be ignored-and I have rated it accordingly. Below average.
