An Italian western directed by Mario Caiano and Ricardo Blasco, starring Richard Harrison.
The drunken son of a gold mining family brags about his family's gold at a saloon. The next day, three harriers arrive at their home to kill the father, wound the son and take the gold. Another son, who is adopted, returns from a conflict in Mexico and works to find the harriers who stole his family's gold.
This film is the king of video artifacts. There were white things flying around and black vertical lines constantly on the screen. The plot was easy to follow and the characters identifiable. The pacing was about right and the style marked it as a product of 1960s Italy. The soundtrack was one of the worst I have ever heard, with a herky-jerky vocal number at the beginning and end and some treble-heavy saloon piano playing. I really think they could have done a better job because the story was alright, but the presentation sucked. I rate it poor.
An Italian horror directed by Mario Caiano.
After a man catches his wife cheating on him with the butler, he begins torturing both of them. The wife reveals that she has changed her will to give all of her money to her sister. The man kills his wife, kills the butler and marries the sister. When he brings her to live in his castle, she has horrible nightmares and her doctor is brought in.
This was pretty lame. The simple plot would have fit in a Twilight Zone episode and the characters got confusing somehow. There was an extra woman in the second half (that the murderous husband was having an affair with) who just appears out of nowhere. There were some editing mistakes in the English dubbed version that I watched with the audio not matching the video. The most obvious case was in the end when the dead wife and butler are laughing with their voices, but not their mouths. Overall, I just found it boring. I rate this poor. Watch something else.
