They managed to keep the cost of this movie under $1.5 million, and it
still lost money? This was Quinn's first spaghetti western (westerns made in Italy to look as though they were made in the states; Clint Eastwood filmed a bunch, so did Bronson, and Sergio Leone almost raised it to an
art form), and it was a bad entry into the field. Quinn plays a deaf mute who had been a hero in the US Civil War. He and Nero are traveling around the West trying to make a living as mercenaries. There's a dictatorship forming in Texas, and the two men are hired by some of President (of the Texas
Republic) Sam Houston's men to help quash the uprising. Moneta is Quinn's form...
Released:
1973
Rated:
PG
Length:
91 mins