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Great Film overall

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Lee Van Cleef introduces the sardonic Sabata character in this film where he plays the title role. This man always kills with a twinkle in the eye and he twinkles like a star in this film as the bodies pile up. Most of them are chalked up to him with a few to spare for his sidekicks, Ignazio Spalla a porky Mexican bandit, Aldo Conti a most athletic Indian, and William Berger named banjo who makes some mighty interesting music on it.Sabata is up against the good city fathers of Daugherty, Texas who have the chutzpah to rob an army payroll and who want to use the money to buy up a lot of land so the railroad coming through has to pay them big time. The gang is led by a most epicene villain Franco Ressel. He seems to have a limitless amount of gunslingers, but Sabata and company whittle them down considerably, some in wholesale bunches.Nothing to take too seriously here folks. Western pasta now being served.

Lee Van Cleef is Sabata, a fast shooting man in black with gun sight eyes and a Winchester that can out distance anyone. He meets up with some rather wild Mexicans and they blackmail some town officials who are crooks into giving them more and more money. The mayor and his boys wont give the money up and hire everyone they can to kill Sabata including his old friend Banjo, but no one can bring Sabata down.I love these kind of westerns. I can watch them all day. They seem perfect in almost every war. The only thing that kills the perfection is the stories do leave a little bit to be desired. During this era they were dishing out westerns as fast as they could make them, and although beautiful and brilliant with great direction, and good actors the stories often clashed and kept them from being 100 percent perfect.Frank Kramer's direction is some of the best I have ever seen. It is breathtaking. He co-wrote this trilogy with Renato Izzo and they work well together. Lee Van Cleef is one of my heroes and does so good in the title role. His fat Mexican compadre played by Pedro Sanchez was wonderful too. I really loved the acrobat Alley Cat played by Bruno Ukmar, and the judge played by Gianni Rizzo and of course Banjo (William Berger) all made for a great cast.The music was wonderful and set the pace, and speaking of pace, this movie didn't waste time with boring dialog or romance or anything it got right to the action which was great. I also loved how Sabata has bullets in the butt of his gun making for a surprise.I highly recommend this to any western fan...such a great film. 7/10 stars

There is nothing like a good spaghetti western to pass a Sunday afternoon, especially when Tiger has little chance of winning.This one is particularly good, as it stars the great Lee Van Cleef as a bounty hunter who foils an attempt to rob $100,000 from the army.Filled with lots of interesting characters like Banjo (William Berger), Carrincha (Ignazio Spalla), and Indio (Aldo Canti); more than a few laughs; and some amazing tricks and gun play by Van Cleef; it is just the thing for fans of the genre.I have to note that it is a good thing that the bad guys led by Stengel (Franco Ressel) have unlimited resources, because they drop like flies at every attempt to kill Sabata.

I watched this for the first time last night and really enjoyed it its the best western I've seen for a while I'm surprised it hasn,t got more of a following.it stars lee van cleef as sabata a gunslinger with a unique arsenal (how cool is that derringer) who rights wrongs done by criminal elements. along the way he meets up with a few unique characters a acrobatic mute Indian ally cat, a local bandit carrincha and an enigmatic banjo player who sabata has met before. Even the bad guys aren,t your typical western criminals. i was surprised how action packed it was. and how different some of the action was to usual gun play in westerns. this is easily lee van cleefs best work since the dollar films.A must for any lee van cleef fan