A light and strightforward Lucio Fulci western with neither much violence , nor sex but a plain story of a bounty hunter who protects a little boy , though there are shootouts enough . At the beginning a young boy sees how his dad is shot . Years later , once grown-up Roy Blood : Giuliano Gemma becomes a bounty hunter . When a kid is kidnapped , Roy along with the robber Snake : Geoffrey Lewis free the little boy and early Blood befriends him , developing an intimate relationship . When Roy is accused for killing and kidnap , he is wanted dead or alive , reward for 1000 dollars .Along the way Blood discovers dark secrets of the boy's family .
Thrilling Western with noisy action , fights , go riding , pursuits, shot'em up , and an enjoyable relationship beween a kid and a gunfighter . It is an acceptable Spaghetti unusual to Fulci career domineed by violent Westerns , bloody thrillers and especially gory horror movies . Here he makes an agreeable Pasta Western with brief intrigue , a kidnapping and a twist final . Stars regular stalwart Spaghetti Western : Giuliano Gemma who starred a lot of Italian oaters often under pseudonym Montgomery Wood , such as : A pistol for Ringo, The return of Ringo, Adiós Gringo , Arizona Colt , The price of power , Day of anger , California .Although also made other genres as Peplum , Thriller, Dramas , Wartime , and Terror in films as : The Titans, Il Gatopardo , Angélica, Tenebre , The master touch, Young Lions , Tenebre , among others . In the movie appears some familiar faces from Westerns and dramas as the American Geoffrey Lewis, Lucio Fulci made 4 Westerns all of them stattred by the Spaghett's greatest stars as "Massacre time" with George Hilton, Franco Nero , "Four of the Apocalypse" with Thomas Milian , Fabio Testi and "A bullet for Sandoval" co-directed by Julio Buchs with George Hilton , Ernest Borgnine , and all extremely violent and really bloody . However, this "Silver Saddle" or "Sella d'argento" is more a frienship story with a child than the ordinary crude and tough Western . Furthermore, being considered to be one of the last important Spaghetti Western in a long period that started with the films shot in Almería by Joaquín Romero Marchent , and bursting with Sergio Leone's Trilogy of the Dollars , following hundreds and hundred Pasta or Paella Westens from 1963 to 1978 approx.
The motion picture was well directed by Lucio Fulci who was a prolific writer and filmmaker . Directing all kinds of genres with penchant for terror as The Black Cat , Zombie 3 , Un gatto nel cervello, , Demonia , Manhattan Baby , New York Ripper , The house by the cemetery , City of the living dead , Aenigma, Murderock , The Wax Mask , and several others . This Western has a rating 6.5/10 , being acceptable and passable to see . Well worth watching . The flick will like to Lucio Fulci aficionados and Spaghetti Westerns fans .
