(1967) Dakota Joe/ A Man and A Colt/ Un hombre y un colt
(In Spanish with English subtitles)
SPAGHETTI WESTERN
Co-produced, co-written and directed by Tulio Demicheli that has bandits led by Gusto Pedro (Fernando Sancho) robbing a mail carrying carriage that happened to be carrying some money. And seeing them from a distance is Dakota Joe (Robert Hundar). After the robbery was over, he then runs down there to grab one of it's horses from the carriage, before continuing to follow the bandits. Once he finds their hiding place, he then sticks his gun out to them before accusing two of them of stealing his horse. He takes both the money and his horse back before blocking their passage with hay. We then see Dakota Joe entering his intended destination, and that is to see a wealthy count, Don Carlos (Mirko Ellis). And before he sees him, he is then makes some new friends, a young couple of Pablo and his fiance Carmencita (Gloria Milland). And we find out that Dakota Joe is actually a hired gunman, and is instructed to shoot and kill a particular doctor, Garcia (Félix Dafauce). Except that Dakota wants to speak to him first, and takes a thousand down payment. And after finding out that the doctor is a non violent person, he rejects the offer before he returns the money. At the same time, we also find out that Gustro Pedro's bandits also work for Don Carlos as well. And just as Dakota returns his money, unfortunate circumstances happen when Pablo shoots and kills Don Carlo's arrogant brother, Garcia as he was attempting to assault Pablo's wife, Carmencita during their wedding. Pablo gets shot on the leg with him and his two brothers are then forced to go on the run. Don Carlos and his bandits then chase after them, hiding Pablo behind before his two brothers are running ahead as a ruse. Dakota eventually finds Pablo, as he is planning to break his wife to escape.
Forgettable scenario that takes a moment from "A Fistful of Dollars" and then making a different kind of movie from it, with the theme of 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' that kind of thing. In this case it is Pablo and his wife, Carmencita as he is part of the Mexican revolution supporting Emiliano Zapata. It is almost identical when the Clint Eastwood character went out of his way to help Marianne Koch character both her husband and their son. The only problem is that their is a lack of action in it we have not seen from other Westerns or in this case Spaghetti Westerns for that matter.
