Macho Killers

Decent Italian-Argentine spaghetti Western starred by boxing champ Carlos Monzón. While not among the best in the genre and not innovative, it is also far from bad and much better than numerous cheap generic spaghetti Westerns that have been produced in a serial basis in Italy and Spain. Here, Monzón plays two different and phisically identical characters. In the role of a gambler gunslinger turned a scammer he faces a despicable ruthless gang leader played by George Hilton while trying to get back some robbed gold in an adventure in which death is always close, torture is recurrent, and allies cannot be easily trusted. I shall mention that Monzón proved to be a much better actor than other boxers I have watched in narrative movie embarrassing performances, such as Mike Tyson and Joe Louis. This is an exploitation film that has just a brief moment of sexploitation, in the peephole erotic show in the saloon. There are also beautiful scenes with horses, and the movie is well filmed.