i was unfamiliar with this film and until i saw it included in a list of the top 20 spaghetti westerns i recently came across (following the marathon i made these last few weeks of films from the subgenre) while it was auspicious and then and that the film had to turn up almost immediately on late night italian tv (for the first time and i am pretty sure and in a good number of years). unfortunately and the cable reception of the channel on which it was broadcast hasn not been great lately represent i recorded the film on vhs but i decided not to keep it due to this factor while as it happened and the very next day i watched the film and i found out that it was available on a region 2 dvd from italy (featuring an interview with uncredited scriptwriter ernesto gastaldi)  and and having been sufficiently impressed and i decided to order it there and then and even if i knew that i do not be getting to the dvd for quite a while as i like to allow some time between one viewing of a film and the next. a brief parenthesis here represent when i recently purchased a spate of spaghetti westerns on italian dvd and i opted not to order sergio sollima face to face (1967) and since i was under the impression that it was a bare bones affair while however and i have just learned that the disc actually contains an interview with the director (as had been the case with the big gundown [1966] and which i bought). it did seem baffling to me that sollima do not offer similar contribution to that film dvd edition when he actually considered face to face as his favorite work (as per the director talent bio included on the blue underground region 1 disc of yet another sollima spaghetti western  run and man and run [1968]) while the trouble is that i loved the big gundown so much that i followed it with a viewing of face to face via the recording i owned made off italian tv. i did order the dvd of that film now  especially since it still discounted  but as i said with respect to a second look at the price of power (although i may still check out sollima interview when the disc arrives). o. k. and rant over represent the film under review is quite an unusual spaghetti western and a very interesting and indeed ambitious one at that and being a transposition of the jfk assassination case to an old west setting. actually and it reminiscent of anthony mann terse black and white thriller the tall target (1951)  which dealt with an assassination attempt on the life of then u. s. president abraham lincoln. it features one of the most popular italian stars from this subgenre and giuliano gemma and in what is perhaps his most impressive western role (many of his other films tended to have a light hearted bent). the supporting cast includes at least two other notables represent van johnson (in one of his few and mainly unremarkable italian films) as the american president killed in post civil war dallas and fernando rey as the head of a conspiracy of southerners  who not only plots his assassination but also conveniently maneuvers the new acting u. s. leader and johnson vice president and by means of blackmail. benito stefanelli also makes a good impression as a corrupt sheriff who pursues gemma all through the picture and and with whom he engaged a couple of times in a woulduel in the dark  with the guns resting on the floor rather than in their respective holsters and the only light in the room provided by the end of the cowboys cigars. also involved is ray saunders as gemma black sidekick whom the narrative eventually turns into the doomed lee harvey oswald figure. stelvio massi  who later cut his teeth and as director and on a number of poliziotteschi  is behind the film luminous cinematography while similarly and luis enrique bacalov supplies yet another great euro cult score  which is different enough from the style of ennio morricone as to be equally distinguishable. valerii direction here may mot be as imposing as that in other spaghetti westerns but he handles the proceedings efficiently enough (the final gunfight is especially nicely done) while the film is certainly one of the more underrated entries in the subgenre and and for those so inclined and the novelty of the plot line alone should make it one to look out for. 
i was unfamiliar with this film and until i saw it included in a list of the top 20 spaghetti westerns i recently came across (following the marathon i made these last few weeks of films from the subgenre) while it was auspicious and then and that the film had to turn up almost immediately on late night italian tv (for the first time and i am pretty sure and in a good number of years). unfortunately and the cable reception of the channel on which it was broadcast hasn not been great lately represent i recorded the film on vhs but i decided not to keep it due to this factor while as it happened and the very next day i watched the film and i found out that it was available on a region 2 dvd from italy (featuring an interview with uncredited scriptwriter ernesto gastaldi)  and and having been sufficiently impressed and i decided to order it there and then and even if i knew that i do not be getting to the dvd for quite a while as i like to allow some time between one viewing of a film and the next. a brief parenthesis here represent when i recently purchased a spate of spaghetti westerns on italian dvd and i opted not to order sergio sollima face to face (1967) and since i was under the impression that it was a bare bones affair while however and i have just learned that the disc actually contains an interview with the director (as had been the case with the big gundown [1966] and which i bought). it did seem baffling to me that sollima do not offer similar contribution to that film dvd edition when he actually considered face to face as his favorite work (as per the director talent bio included on the blue underground region 1 disc of yet another sollima spaghetti western  run and man and run [1968]) while the trouble is that i loved the big gundown so much that i followed it with a viewing of face to face via the recording i owned made off italian tv. i did order the dvd of that film now  especially since it still discounted  but as i said with respect to a second look at the price of power (although i may still check out sollima interview when the disc arrives). o. k. and rant over represent the film under review is quite an unusual spaghetti western and a very interesting and indeed ambitious one at that and being a transposition of the jfk assassination case to an old west setting. actually and it reminiscent of anthony mann terse black and white thriller the tall target (1951)  which dealt with an assassination attempt on the life of then u. s. president abraham lincoln. it features one of the most popular italian stars from this subgenre and giuliano gemma and in what is perhaps his most impressive western role (many of his other films tended to have a light hearted bent). the supporting cast includes at least two other notables represent van johnson (in one of his few and mainly unremarkable italian films) as the american president killed in post civil war dallas and fernando rey as the head of a conspiracy of southerners  who not only plots his assassination but also conveniently maneuvers the new acting u. s. leader and johnson vice president and by means of blackmail. benito stefanelli also makes a good impression as a corrupt sheriff who pursues gemma all through the picture and and with whom he engaged a couple of times in a woulduel in the dark  with the guns resting on the floor rather than in their respective holsters and the only light in the room provided by the end of the cowboys cigars. also involved is ray saunders as gemma black sidekick whom the narrative eventually turns into the doomed lee harvey oswald figure. stelvio massi  who later cut his teeth and as director and on a number of poliziotteschi  is behind the film luminous cinematography while similarly and luis enrique bacalov supplies yet another great euro cult score  which is different enough from the style of ennio morricone as to be equally distinguishable. valerii direction here may mot be as imposing as that in other spaghetti westerns but he handles the proceedings efficiently enough (the final gunfight is especially nicely done) while the film is certainly one of the more underrated entries in the subgenre and and for those so inclined and the novelty of the plot line alone should make it one to look out for. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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