This is a bleak, wintry Western which anticipates McCabe and Mrs Miller and claims to be based on real bounty hunter killings getting out of hand in the Great Blizzard of 1898. Silence's Mauser is interesting in that quirky spaghetti way of finding obscure objects.
The one where literally all the good guys die and the evil Klaus Kinski gets away with it (along with massacring all the hostage / bandits).
Music by Ennio Morricone but - Corbucci is a bastard. It's an interesting film, though, I guess partly because its bleak setting matches the bleak tone.
Filmed in the Tyrol in Italy by Silvano Ippoliti. The dubbing is fairly woeful. With Jean-Louis Trintignant (Il Conformista), Frank Wolff (sheriff), Luigi Pistilli (bounty banker), Mario Brega (from TGTBTU), Marisa Merlini, Vonetta McGee.
Quentin showed this to Robert Richardson as prep for The Hateful Eight.
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