THE MOMENT TO KILL George Hilton Full Spaghetti Western Movie
Channel: Arizona Western Movies
Date: 2021-08-15

This was Giuliano Carnimeo's first film as an independent director (*1). He was brought in when Enzo G. Castellari (who had written the original story with Tito Carpi) decided not to direct the movie (*2). Featuring a charming gunslinger with a grumpy assistant, it is often called a forerunner of the Trinity movies. But note that it's still a pretty violent film: It's tongue-in-cheek throughout and Barnes does the trick of hitting a man on his cranium instead of his chin, but there's hardly any slapstick and the violence is often of a particularly gruesome nature. Even the jokes have a cruel edge, such as the use of Lewis Carrol's Humpty Dumpty when one of the villains is shot off a roof and therefore has a great fall.


Two famous gunmen, Lord and Bull are called to a southern western town by a judge to retrace a gold reserve, worth $ 500.000. It was hidden in the last days of the Civil War by a Confederate colonel and people have been looking for it ever since. Shortly after their arrival, the judge is killed, leaving them with only two clues as to where the gold is hidden: the name of the colonel's favorite book, Camelot, and the name of the man's handicapped daughter, Regina. The girl is kept as a prisoner by her uncle, town boss Forester, on a secret location outside of town. To deter all others, Forester has hired an entire army of gunmen. Lord and Bull eliminate them all in a series of shootouts, but there are more villains than the usual suspects ...