A spaghetti Western that appears to have cut corners in both its pre-production and its post-production work (the color quality fluctuates so erratically from shot to shot that the film looks as though it is still awaiting a turn in the processing lab). It is given some moral backbone, though, by the writer and director, Clair Huffaker and John Sturges, two old hands at Hollywood Westerns. The title character, a brooding outcast who might have been conceived by Camus, is a half-breed horsebreeder with scars over his entire body, living in a desolate no-man's-land, and preordained to an existence of abject loneliness. The slow-going story deals with his cautious and ultimately frustrating re-introduction to humanity through his tutorship of a rootless youth and his courtship of an English-bred gentlewoman. Only at the downbeat finish -- when the hero, an archetypal quitter, cancels his revenge vow in the midst of a blazing gunfight and vanishes forever over the horizon, leaving his life in ashes -- do you comprehend how ornery this movie has intended to be. Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Marcel Bozzuffi. (1976) — Duncan Shepherd
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