John Warner (George Hilton) deserts the Confederate Army when he learns that his lover Rosa (Annabella Incontrera, Black Belly of the Tarantula) is about to deliver his child. He’s captured but has two friends who allow him to escape and he makes it home just in time to learn that she’s died. Even worse, the child’s grandfather Don Pedro Sandoval (Ernest Borgnine) rejects the child, who also dies from a fever that could have been helped with all the money that the rich Sandovals have horded.

Warner then decides that all hope is gone, so he becomes an outlaw, mostly seeking to make the life of the Sandoval family as bad as possible. This whole movie is about revenge and two men who ultimately will do anything to one another even if it destroys themselves.

Director Julio Buchs also made Murder by Music and Django Does Not Forgive. There were rumors that Lucio Fulci directed this — the opening with a man cutting rings off dead fingers and pulling out fillings seems to be something he’d craft — but no, it’s not him.

It also has a great AKA title: Those Desperate Men Who Smell of Dirt and Death.

The VCI 4K blu ray of this movie has commentary by Alex Cox, which is really all the extras it needs, because he knows his Italian Westerns. It also has a trailer. You can get it from MVD.