Luckily the saloon also offers some distraction of the most delicious kind: saloon lady Hélène Chanel sets the screen ablaze and there are more dancing girls showing their well-shaped legs than in any other spaghetti western. The western action is merely adequate and there's one particularly silly barroom brawl, with Pazzafini sending his opponents sky high with his blows. But the story is quite intricate and there are enough twists and revelations to keep your attention. There are a few scenes set at night, with people stalking each other, otherwise there's not too much resemblance to the Italian mystery genre par excellence, the Giallo. Dressed in black, clean shaved, using a 32 caliber pistol with an elongated barrel, Silver is a transitional character, a missing link between Lee Van Cleef's Colonel Mortimer from For a Few dollars More and Gianni Garko's Sartana.ģ2 Caliber Killer is part western, part mystery movie, and to me it worked better as a mystery movie. In this case the identity of the gang leader is so mysterious that even the gang members are kept in the dark and are desperately trying to find out who's the person they're working for. As such it is considered to be a forerunner of the Sartana and Sabata movies, with Peter Lee Lawrence as the stoic investigator calmly unraveling a labyrinth plot. ģ2 Caliber Killer is often mentioned as the first spaghetti western with an elegantly dressed protagonist who is as much a detective as a gunslinger. Why not hire a professional killer, who can kill them all at once? There's one in town, who has just blown some local scum to hell, a gentleman killer called Silver. One of his colleagues has a better plan: like the local sheriff, Pinkerton agents are supposed to play things by the book and bring bandits to justice. A gang is systematically robbing the stagecoach and when one day all passengers are killed, one of the local dignitaries decides it's time to call for the Pinkerton Agency.
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