Saloon keeper Jennie Lee (Madeleine Lebeau) is fed up with Zack "The Snake" Williams ( Gerard Tichy) trying to take over Clementine Hewitt's silver mine. She contacts her friend Wyatt Earp to bring justice to the border town.
Problem is, Wyatt - under the alias Laramie - is just one man against Williams' hoard of henchmen. And he might not be able to count on much help in the town where everyone cowers under Williams' thumb, including a sheriff named Leo (Massimon Serato), who spends more time in Jennie Lee's saloon than he does upholding the law.
But Wyatt's resolve might help Leo regain the backbone he once had. After all, he's in love with Jennie Lee, and eager to impress ...
Guy Madison straps on his sixgun as Wyatt Earp in this spaghetti western, which is really a traditional western. The hero doesn't brazenly shoot down the villain as in other Spaghettis- during a showdown Earp only shoots a gun out of the bad guy's hand. Gunmen of Rio Grande is a handsomely produced western that has fantastic scenery, a good plot and a rip roaring performance by Fernando Sanchez as the bandit Chieftain. The plot can be static at times, but it's adequately involving. However, its lively action scenes are its selling points and pushes things forward.
