The Big Gundown
1966, R, 105 min.
Directed by Sergio Sollima, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Lee Van Cleef, Thomas Milian, Luisa Rivelli.

The Alamo’s all-you-can-eat pasta, focaccia, and Caesar salad Spaghetti Western Spaghetti Feast returns with this Lee Van Cleef horse opera about a legendary gunslinger hired to track down a child murderer. The dark story also has a film score by Ennio Morricone.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.