Watch Out Gringo! Sabata Will Return (1972) Poster

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Average Paella/Spaghetti/Butifarra Western co-produced by Spain/Italy , being regularly directed by Alfonso Balcazar
ma-cortes27 October 2017
Italian-Spanish co-production full of action , thrills , humor , exaggerated characters, crossfire and lots of shots . The film packs violence , shootouts , high body-count and and results to be quite entertaining but mediocre . The film begins with Union soldiers transporting a shipment of gold . A bunch of bandits headed up by treacherous , unrepentant villains : Luke Morton (Daniel Martin of ¨Filstful of dollars¨) and trigger-happy Carrancho (Fernando Sancho of "Zorro the Avenger") , to follow the shipment and rob it back , as well as kidnap a beauty woman (Rosalba Neri) . Later on , we are then introduced to our stalwart , a swift-drawing , straight-shooting hombre with a deadly reputation : Sabata or Rayo (Jorge Martin of Return of Ringo) from title who arrives in the small town . As the valuable gold is targeted by a second outfit of robbers led by Texas (Vittorio Richelmy) and Sabata . Then Carrancho robs the gold loot and escapes , burying it at a Mormon cemetery . After getting away , there takes place an attempt on his life that results in Carrancho running around country . Along the way , Carrancho faces off a new enemy called Texas and being relentless pursued by Morton . Sabata , Texas and Carrancho become involved into violent incidents , double-crosses , tramplers and a lot of twists and turns .

Acceptable though middling tortilla Western in which Sabata and Texas resolve a conflict among nasty robbers that want to take a gold shipment and the Union Army that attempts to transport it . All in all , this film is predominantly a Spanish film rather than an Italian one . It's a two country co-production but is clearly dominated by the Spanish contingent and the traditional leanings of the Spanish producers of the time have their stamp on the entire proceedings . What is most interesting about the euro-westerns made in Italy and Spain in 1960s and 70s are the creative and idiosyncratic ways that the directors came up with to deal with short budgets and limited resources . Given the peculiar economics of the Italian/Spanish industry there was a great deal of freedom for how to make satisfying movies for an ample export audience . Unfortunately, many of the 400-500 films made during this cycle were poorly made . Passable Chorizo Western realized in Pasta style with a screenplay written by Jose Antonio De La Loma , Giovanni Simonelli and Alfonso Balcázar himself , including amusing dialogue , silly situations , plot twists and turns . The film packs comical elements in charge of Carrancho/Fernando Sancho , tongue-in-cheek , gun-play , and turns to be quite amusing. It's a middle-budget film with ordinary actors , technicians , decent production values and average results . There is plenty of action in the movie , guaranteeing some shoot'em up or stunts every few minutes . It's an exciting western with breathtaking showdown between starring George Martin and his enemies Daniel Martin and the brawler Fernando Sancho , adding some thrilling and twisted scenes on its final . Sober and tough acting by Jorge ¨George Martin¨ who takes on a band of crooks , unethical Carrancho & his gang, challenging the hero right up to the final showdown and he then decides that he wants to get his hands on the gold also . Jorge starred during the sixties and seventies several action films as well as Chorizo or Paella Western . His role as Sabata nothing to do with the classic character played by Gianni Garco and George Hilton . The film is well starred by Spaghetti star as the Spanish George Martin who worked much for Alfonso Balcazar's factory such as ¨Clint the strange¨, ¨The return the Clint¨, ¨Oeste Nevada Joe¨, Thompson 1880¨ , ¨Taste of killing¨, ¨A pistol for Ringo and ¨The return of Ringo¨ . Furthermore , there appears ordinary secondary of Spaghetti/Paella Western as Spanish players : Daniel Martín , Manuel Gas , Cesar Ojinada , Manuel Muñiz as well as Italian actors as sexy female cast Rosalba Neri , Osvaldo Gennazzani and Luciano Rossi, among others . Special appearance by Spaghetti idol , Fernando Sancho as the ordinary outlaw , the Mexican bandit called ¨Carrancho¨ , he is terrific , he would play this role in other Spaghettis as¨Pistoleros De Arizona¨and ¨Viva Carrancho¨ . The picture well photographed by Jaume De Casas , shot Castelldefels, Papiol , Barcelona, Catalonia . There are many fine technicians and nice assistant direction and adequate production design by the usual Juan Albert Soler , he creates a good scenario . Very enjoyable musical score by Piero Piccioni .

This motion picture also titled USA ,¨Watch Out Gringo! Sabata Will Return" or ¨Judas Toma Tus Monedas¨ was professionally produced and directed by Alfonso Balcazar who managed to make a fluid , witty and agreeable SW , but mediocre . It is rooted in the Sergio Leone's Spaghetti westerns of the 1960s instead of Hollywood sagebrushers of the 1950s . Alfonso alongside his brother Juan Jose Balcazar produced and directed a lot of Chorizo or Butifarra Western , most of them starred by Jorge Martin or Robert Woods ; such as 1972 ¨The return of Clint¨ , 1968 ¨Sartana no Perdone or Sonora¨ , 1967 ¨With Death on Your Back¨ , 1966 ¨Dinamita Jim¨ , 1965 ¨Doc, Manos de Plata¨ , 1965 ¨Viva Carrancho¨ , 1965 ¨Five Thousand Dollars on One Ace¨ and especially "Clint the Nevada's Loner" . And co-directed by Pedro Ramírez who was an expert on comedy , filming vehicles for the Spanish comic named Jose Luis Ozores such as ¨ El Gafe¨, ¨El Tigre Chamberi¨, ¨Los Ladrones Somos Gente Honrada¨, ¨Recluta con Niño¨ and made a Horror : ¨School of death¨ and two Chorizo Western for Alfonso Balcazar : "None of the Three Were Called Trinity" and this one .
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4/10
Cheap and muddled
Leofwine_draca17 April 2018
Warning: Spoilers
WATCH OUT GRINGO! SABATA WILL RETURN is a rather cheap and insipid spaghetti western, made without much sense or foresight or indeed originality. It's one of those films which seems to pack in as much incident and characters as is humanly possible for a movie, but this only serves to muddy the plot and make it difficult to find characters to root for. Fernando Sancho leads a team of bandits who go around kidnapping and the like while George Martin plays the gunslinger Sabata, but then there are about half a dozen other main characters too. The production qualities are low and the film lacks those memorable scenes that make this genre great.
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