Buck And The Magic Bracelet

Marketed on home video as a family adventure about a boy and his dog, this Italian-US coproduction is really an overly violent western with poorly defined characters and an even vaguer plot.

Zeb Calloway (Conrad Nichols) and his son Kevin (Frankie Nero) are part of a group of prospectors mining a Canadian river for gold. The camp is robbed by the vicious Whip gang led by Ma Dalton (Abby Dalton). The gang shoots everyone, but Zeb survives after his presumed corpse is thrown into the river. Kevin is nearly dead of a bullet wound when he is discovered by Zeb's woodsman friend Natty (Matt McCoy) and his Indian guide Shanka (Felton Perry). Natty leaves Shanka to care...