Colt in the Hand of the Devil (1972)

During the introduction, our hero (Robert Woods) is saved from one of the prison guards by a fellow prisoner who is then executed. He goes to to his saviour’s home-town and spends the rest of the film investigating the circumstance of their wrongful imprisonment. William Berger (who I always like as an actor, but often question his judgement in choosing roles) plays the town’s saloon owner, who is mixed up in the villainy.

This is a fairly unimpressive low-budget spaghetti Western. The story suffers a bit because we don’t really understand the hero’s motivation (superficially it’s pretty obvious, but it’s all based off a ~2 line conversation in the intro, and it’s all taken as so implicit that it’s never really believable). The general production is also quite weak - it fails to set up much of a sense of place, or a sense of continuity. One of the little things I noticed was that it the delineation between different scenes isn’t obvious, so you spend the first 10 seconds of each each scene trying to work out if you’re still in the last one.

So not hugely recommended.