La caza del oro (1972) Online

So-so but amusing Macarroni/Tortilla or Gazpacho Western with plenty of action , crossfire , brawls , double-crosses , twists and loads of shots . The movie is running out of ideas a bit ; nevertheless , it is still good enough to be fun . Mediocre Chorizo/Spaghetti Western co-produced by Spain/Italy with the ordinary confrontation between Anthony Steffen and Fernando Sancho . It deals with group of cutthroats awaits the release from county jail an old goldminer called Carver (Manuel Guitian) . Carver has been long time in prison for a gold robbing and believed to have hidden 28 sacks of the rich mineral . They all want the aging prospector -who has been 20 years locked- to speak , but only one of them will fulfill his dream . Several outlaws surrounding the prison , but only the shrewdest of the bandits , Trash (Anthony Steffen) , gains the reliance of the old inmate and with a Mexican desperado , Josè (Daniel Martin) , they begin the quest for gold that has been hidden 20 years before . When Carver is freed , he is kidnapped by a band that pretends to steal his precious gold . But too many people are involved in this quest , including a powerful owner (Luis Induni) , his deputies and a dangerous killer (Gaspar Indio Gonzalez) with his band . Later on , they attempt to take a valuable sculpture of Saint Fermin . After that , they meet the nasty outlaw Fermin Rojas (Fernando Sancho) and things go awry .

This stirring tortilla/Ravioli Western packs thrills , shootouts , noisy action and riding pursuits . Italian-Spanish co-production filmed in Catalunya and Fraga , Huesca , full of familiar faces , assaults , exaggerated characters , gun-down , lots of shots , fights and with some looks that say it all , including an exciting ending . Starring Anthony Steffen who stands out his strong , piercing eyes and striking look , featuring as a man out for gold robbing . Steffen is passable as a gunfighter who vows take a cache of gold at whatever price . Worthwhile watching for a demonstration of the confrontation between the tough Pistolero Anthony Steffen and Fernando Sancho as the notorious killer called Fermin Rojas . Charismatic performance for all casting . The notorious Spaghetti actor , Anthony Steffen is nice as Trash Benson . Anthony Steffen may be a name best remembered by Spaghetti Western aficionados, but in his day, from the mid-'60s to the early '70s, Steffen was one of the most popular actors of the genre — at the time cheap B movies, now revered cult classics . The handsome, Italian-born — actually at the Brazilian embassy in Rome — Antonio Luiz de Teffè von Hoonholtz began working in films as a studio messenger for Vittorio De Sica . From there, Steffen began acting in sword-and-sandal epics, later moving onto the Western genre , where he found his niche . Then , Steffen jumped at the chance when offered the main character in ¨Last Mohican¨. He wound up settling in western genre for the next two decades . As he sought characters in routine spaghetti westerns , and as he starred such notorious Spaghetti as ¨Django Il Bastard¨, ¨Arizona returns¨, ¨Garringo¨, ¨Apocalypse Joe¨, ¨Tequila¨, ¨A train to Durango¨ , and many others . Unlike fellow Spaghetti star Clint Eastwood, however, Steffen never became a top international box-office attraction . To avoid being penned in too much as a simple gunfighter , he played all kinds of genres as Giallo , Erotic , Thriller and Prison movie . Support cast is frankly good , thanks to the boastful Fernando Sancho , playing a likable but murderous bandit , as usual . He played a Mexican outlaw lots of times , as he starred multitude ¨Chorizo¨ or ¨Pipperone¨ Westerns , as the quarrelsome , swanky Mexican bandit , such as : ¨A pistol for Ringo¨, ¨Return of Ringo¨, "Requiem for a Gringo" , "Dakota Joe" , ¨Winchester Bill¨ , "The Man Who Came to Kill" and several others . Here appear important secondaries from Spaghetti/Tortilla or Paella Western , these are the followings : Daniel Martin , Luis Induni , Tania Alvarado , Juan Torres ,Raf Baldassarre , Gustavo Re , Gaspar 'Indio' González , among others .

This violent tale with some hilarious moments being decent but poorly photographed by Julio Pérez de Rozas in Eastmancolor . Mostly filmed in atmospheric though poor scenarios on location in Fraga , (Huesca) , similar to Almeria , and a Western village located in ¨Splugles De Llobregat¨ built by Balcazar Productions and in Matadapera , Barcelona , Catalonia and in Elios studios , Rome . Enjoyable and jolly musical score by Marcelo Giombini . The motion picture was regularly directed by Juan Bosch . He managed to make a fluid and filled with thrills , duels , attacks , and shots , though average and in low budget . Juan was a Spanish craftsman , writing and directing ; working from the 60s in all kind of genres and B movies such as Spaghetti Western : ¨Dallas¨, "God in Heaven.. Arizona on Earth¨, "And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave" , "My Horse, My Gun, Your Widow" ,¨Ciudad Maldita¨, ¨They Believed He Was No Saint" , "Stagecoach of the Condemned" ; Giallo : "The Killer Wore Gloves" , "On the Edge" or "The Killer with a Thousand Eyes" ; Comedy : Mauricio Mon Amour¨, ¨40 Años Sin Sexo¨, ¨Caray Con Divorcio¨ , ¨Rolls Para Hipolito¨ and Terror : ¨Exorcismo¨, ¨Secta Siniestra¨ . Rating : 4.5/10 , mediocre but entertaining , though sometimes embarrassing . If you like Chorizo , Paella , Tortilla , Butifarra or Spaghetti westerns , this one remains lightly watchable .