The Big Gundown

(1967)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 186 votes

Genres: Western

Year: 1967

Runtime: 111 мин

Country: Italy, Spain

Director: Sergio Sollima

Cast: Lee Van Cleef, Tomas Milian, Walter Barnes, Gérard Herter, Manolita Barroso, Fernando Sancho, Nieves Navarro, Benito Stefanelli, Frank Braña, Antonio Casas

Plot

Unofficial lawman John Corbett hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.

Jonathan Corbett is a gunman so brave to have eliminated all the bandits of Texas. For this he is proposed for the candidacy to the Senate of the United States. In exchange he has only to support the construction of one railway line. Only after he accepts does he come to know that the Mexican Cuchillo has raped and killed a 12 year old girl. Corbett leaves on a long manhunt during which he gets to know his adversary better and discovers a variation on the crime for which the accused Cuchillo may not be as guilty as he first thought.