Dio perdona... Io no!

Plot synopsis:
Bill San Antonio accuses his old friend and partner Cat of cheating at cards. Bill orders the others out and tells his henchman Bud to set fire to the house. Then they have a stand-up duel and Bill falls. When Cat emerges from the house the gang follows Bill’s orders – Cat is allowed to leave. After the funeral the men find that the loot of the gang is missing and Bud says that Cat must have stolen it. On several occasions Cat is attacked by gang members and kills them, while Bud disappears.
This is told in flashbacks during the film, that starts when a train is robbed and its passengers massacred, but one survivor identifies Bill San Antonio. Cat is told this by Hutch, an old acquaintance who is now an insurance agent. Cat remembers that the gun he used in the duel was handed to him by Bud. He sneaks away at night with Hutch’s horse and leaves it further on. Cat searches – followed at a distance by Hutch – and eventually finds the hideout of Bill’s new gang. When sneaking into the house Cat is caught, but saved by Earp. Using Hutch’s considerable strength, they remove the box with the gold taken from the train, and hide it down in the ground by some cliffs. Then the two fall out, because Cat wants more than the percentage offered by the insurance company. As shots may draw the attention of the gang, they fight it out without weapons. Cat swings in a tree and kicks Hutch several times until Hutch finally knocks Cat out cold. Still dizzy, Hutch looks up to find that Bill and his men have arrived.
The two are tortured by what Bill knows that they can’t stand, Cat by water and Hutch by fire, but they won’t tell where the gold is. When Bill and most of the gang temporarily leaves (to meet his secret partner), Cat suggests to Bud (who has been recently whipped by Bill for being too conspicuous in the nearby village and also blamed for the surviving witness at the train massacre) that he can lead him to the gold. After Cat digs up the box of gold Bud is about to shoot him, but Cat throws a knife lying by the box and kills Bud.
When Bill returns he sends his gang to search for Cat. Bill and two bandits find Cat in a cantina in the nearby Mexican village. After his two companions have been shot by Cat, Bill – held at gunpoint – suggests that they share the money, and forget Earp. At Bill’s lair three men left there try to get the information from Hutch, but his guard Tago refuses to open the door. While Tago is occupied Earp breaks the wooden beam that he is bound to and beats him down. Then he shoots the men when they break in through the door.
At the place of the gold Cat intends to reproduce his first duel with Bill, but with dynamite instead of fire. While the fuse burns away they move into position to draw, but are interrupted by Hutch, who is holding a rifle and tells them to drop their guns. He asks about the gold, and when Cat says that the box is there but the content may not be the same, he tries to open the box while keeping an eye on the two. The fuse keeps on burning, and Bill draws a hidden derringer and shoots Hutch, but a hidden knife thrown by Cat wounds his hand. The two pick up their revolvers and shoot. Cat wounds Bill’s other hand (that he drew with) and also shoots both his knees. While Bill crawls towards the kegs of dynamite and tries to bite off the fuse with his teeth Cat carries the unconscious Hutch to cover. Then there is a big explosion.
In the concluding scene Hutch comes to lying on the wagon with the bags of gold. Cat says that he has to have a bullet taken out of his head and that they will discuss the fate of the gold when Hutch is strong enough to hold a gun.

Tags: western, revenge, murder, violence, flashback

Review:
Unusual, But Great Spencer/Hill Spaghetti Western.
I Don't!" is not only the first film with both Bud Spencer and Terence Hill in the leading parts, it is also one of their best movies.
I Don't!" is not one of the usual Spencer/Hill comedies, but a pretty brutal and rather serious Spaghetti Western.The movie starts with a train rolling into a town.
Two gunslingers, Cat Stevens (Hill), and Hutch Bessy (Spencer) realize that the whole coup looks like the work of Outlaw Bill San Antonio.
The mysterious thing about it is, however, that Cat killed San Antonio in a duel several months ago.
On their search for the gold, the two get several clues that Bill San Antonio only staged his own death."God Forgives..
I Don't!" is definitely the most serious and brutal of the Spencer/Hill collaborations.
Anyway, the movie also has many of the typical Spencer/Hill movie ingredients, like the numerous fistfights in which Spencer's character uses his typical hammering one punch technique.
Spencer and Hill show that they are not only great as a team in comedies, but also in a serious Spaghetti Western.
Another Highlight of this movie is the great performance of Spaghetti Western Star Frank Wolff as the evil Bill San Antonio.
I also liked the score a lot, especially the part with the somehow aggressive, dynamic, classical choir.In Germany and Austria, this movie was released under three different titles.
Terence Hill's character is also referred to as 'Django' in the uncut German version, and his dubbed voice is different to his dubbed voice in his later comedies.All told, "God Forgives...
I Don't" is a great Spaghetti Western, not like the usual Spencer/Hill movies, but a pretty brutal and serious movie, and definitely one of their best collaborations.
First violent entry of the Giuseppe Colizzi trilogy with Hill and Spencer.
Again Hill as Cat Stevens and Spencer as Hutch Bessy team up against a baddie named Bill well played by Frank Wolff .
Exciting western deals with a gunfighter robber hijacks a payroll train , kills everyone aboard and then stashes his loot .
This violent Spaghetti Western oater goes on when Cat Stevens (Terence Hill or Mario Girotti) trying to save himself from a pursuit by nasties .
Then meets Hutch (Bud Spencer or Carlo Pedersoli) who proposes him to discover the train robbing , allegedly committed by Bill St Antonio , and the two guys mess with Western baddies .
Nevertheless , the heinous villain is alive and seeks revenge , he is a ruthless outlaw and supported by heinous henchmen .The movie contains gunplay, action Western, bloody spectacle and fist-fights .
Terence Hill as a tough gunslinger and Spencer as a bouncing hunk are good but still not personified the Trinity hero characters .
At the picture appears usual Spaghetti secondaries who played ordinary characters as villains in numerous Spanish/Italian Western as Jose Luis Martin , Frank Braña , Jose Canalejas , Tito Garcia , Francisco Sanz and Luis Barboo , among others .
The film belongs the Giuseppe Colizzi trilogy starred by Hill and Spencer as Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy .
The movie is finely photographed by Alfio Contini, and of course is shot in Almeria , Spain, location where were filmed hundreds Western in the 60s and 70s .
This motion picture also titled ¨God forgives¨ will appeal to Hill and Spencer fans and S.W. aficionados..
Among all the spaghetti-westerns I have seen(maybe 50) this one belongs to the better ones.
Terence Hill showed his talents and the "chemistry" with Bud Spencer worked so well that it wasn't their last pairing, to say the least.
Even though it stars Terence Hill and Bud Spencer don´t expect this to be a light-hearted comedy flick like the Trinity westerns.
Okay spaghetti western.
I'm not sure why American-International chose to theatrically release in the U.S. this particular spaghetti western over dozens of others.
Although this does the job for spaghetti western addicts (like myself), and it's never boring, it is not spectacular in any department - scenery, story, action, violence, etc.The main attraction this movie has today is the early pairing up (before the TRINITY films) of Hill and Spencer.
Spencer acts like his usual ornery self, though we do get the chance to see hill play a determined, more brutal western hero.
The first big time' collaboration of Spencer/Hill.
This film is one the first collaboration between Spencer and Hill, in which they both play a big part (and it is their first film together with their FAMOUS screen names).
The main difference between this film and most other Spencer and/or Hill films, is that it has a more serious nature and is a lot more brutal than their usual comedy-style films.
What might have made it a notch worse for me, is that Spencer and Hill did not have their standard German voices, but I cannot really say, becausewell it's obvious isn't it!?!
If you're more interested in comedy-western try a Trinity film.
The "Cat Stevens" The "Hutch Bessy" and The "Bill San Antonio".
Very good quality spaghetti western!Without exploration in genre but strong professional work on all levels.Not bad scenario (rude variation on THE GOOOD THE BAD THE UGLY scheme).Without inventions in plot and dialog but successful inside fighting and especially torture (rope,water(pit),fire) scenes.Red hair Bill San Antonio not demonic power character but sly fox.Terence Hill as Cat Stevens is equal parts of Franko Nero's (Django) and Clint Eastwood's (in "dollars trilogy") "good" guys performances.Bud Spencer's Hutch Bessy is pretty with limit (relatively for latest Spencer's characters) physical power.
Generally: for all spaghetti western fans!.
not bad for a Hill/Spencer flick.
I've never really appreciated the whole Terence Hill and Bud Spencer phenomenon the way that some people apparently do.
I don't think they are any better as a duo than any other two random actors that could have been thrown together at that time, and as far as comedy goes, let's just say they are no Laurel and Hardy.
In fact, I think they've done better work when they haven't been together, especially in the case of Hill.One saving grace for this film is that it is not one of their irritating attempts at comedy.
And it's told in good spaghetti western fashion.
This film keeps the viewer intrigued from beginning to end, and it is accompanied by an interesting music score from Angel Oliver Pina.The highlight of this movie is the performance of Frank Wolff, as Bill San Antonio.
Wolff has appeared in a lot of spaghetti westerns playing all sorts of characters, and is one of the finest supporting actors of the genre.
San Antonio is one of those funny, over-the-top characters that make these movies so much fun to watch.
Frank Wolff is so great in this role that he steals the show completely, and makes this movie way more enjoyable than it would have been otherwise.Overall, this is a pretty decent spaghetti western that is worth watching for fans of the genre..
Their first official movie Spencer and Hill stared in together, a classic spaghetti western.
Ironically it was Hill who started out as the harsher character while Bud played the more amicable guy.
It was an entertaining enough movie, but if you're looking for the humourous slapstick comedy we have come to expect from these guys, you won't get it.
Unlike "They call me Trinity", it's a very serious Western with little in the way of humour, although I do find the shoot outs amusing as the guns seem to fire off more like cap guns than real guns.
Bud was dubbed by the man who was to do his voice in most of his movies; Glauco Onorato.
Hill usually did his own English voice dubbing, but in this one he has someone else doing his voice, a much colder and harsher voice to match his character.
I guess it's not surprising that they needed to do that, otherwise his character, Cat would just not have the same menacing aura to him.
I always love Hill-Spencer's movies since 1976 when l'd watched the first one,since then every movie from both l watched in fullness...on "Dio perdona...lo no!" is an unusual situation between the star in this case they are complete antagonists,Hill is a gambler who was trapped by the chief band's robbers and Spencer work to insurance company where he has to recover the US$ 300.000 in gold that was stolen on a train robbery...this movie is more serious from the couple...the result is good...the partner was so long is cinema's history...sadly Bud Spencer let us forever!!!.
(1967) ** (out of 4) Incoherent but violent Spaghetti Western has a train pulling up to a station but everyone on board has been shot and killed and there's also $100,000 in gold missing.
Soon Terence Hill and Bud Spencer (their first film together) are trying to track down the gold, which has been buried somewhere in the west.
Apparently there are at least two versions of this film out there and the one I watched was the AIP version, which got a theatrical release here in the States back in the day.
As for the film, outside it not making too much sense, it really isn't as bad as some of the reviews that I've read.
This is the only film I've seen from the Hill/Spencer team, although I've got more sitting here to watch.
I think the two make for an interesting duo but I've read the majority of their films together are more comedy than anything else.
The opening sequence on the train is wonderfully done as is the following scene where Hill is playing poker against three cheaters.
The violence really keeps the film moving even when the story doesn't make too much sense.
This isn't the best spaghetti I've seen but I'm sure there are worse out there..
This film is one of many films with Terence Hill and Bud Spencer that I can see over and over again without getting bored.
It has a dark attitude and the acting is more serious than the Trinity films but have a light comic touch over it anyway.
As all English version of a "Spagetti Western" the voices are dubbed afterwards, with or without the original actors voices.
I first saw this film for the first time in the 70's and didn't pay so much attention of the dubbed voices then.When I saw it again for maybe the third time in the late 80's on my VCR, I suddenly realized that it wasn't Terence's voice at all, but a voice of an other actor I've heard many time over the years.Of course it is just a qualified guess from a movie freak, but I'm pretty shure that Terence's voice is replaced by the voice of the English actor Roger Moore.It is the sharp S'es and other characteristics in the voices that is giving him away.There is also some poor attempts to hide the English accent with a vage tone of American-Western dialect.I haven't seen any information yet that says that it is Roger Moore's voice but then again, I haven't seen any information that says that it isn't.If you have "God forgives, I don't" on video cassette or DVD, see it again, close your eyes and picture Roger Moore face/acting instead.What do you think now ?.
Saturday morning and time for a western - a spaghetti western with Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, who have appeared together a couple of dozen times.Hill can be found in some of the most popular movies today, like Wanted and Get Smart.
It is the first film where Bud Spencer, previously Carlo Pedersoli, appears under that name.Lots of shoot-em-up action.
Head and Shoulders Above the Average Spaghetti Western!.
Before he became a film director, Giuseppe Colizzi served as Federico Fellini's production manager on "The Swindlers." The short-lived Colizzi helmed four of his six films with Terence Hill and Bud Spencer.
The first entry in an overlooked and underrated spaghetti western trilogy, Colizzi's "God Forgives, But I Don't" boasts the numerical distinction of pairing Hill and Spencer together for the first time after a foot injury forced lead actor Peter Martell off the picture.
"Ace High" and "Boot Hill" followed.
Hill and Spencer went on to achieve greater fame in Enzo Barboni's two "Trinity" features.
Before Hill capitalized on comedy westerns and later modern day adventures, he proved himself as gunslinger Cat Stevens, a pistolero who found it just as easy to cross the line between good and evil as fire up a cheroot.
Bronzed like a tawny Greek god with a deep masculine voice dubbed in by another actor and displaying admirable restraint in the stoic tradition of Clint Eastwood, Hill proved equally adept at portraying sober dramatic protagonists as well as lightweight, comic leads.
Hill and Spencer are evenly matched by seasoned Spaghetti western villain Frank Wolff who resembles Harpo Max with mutton chops."God Forgives, But I Don't" seizes your attention from the start.
Eventually, we learn that the murderous outlaw chieftain Bill San Antonio (Frank Wolff of "A Stranger in Town") and his gang of despicable bandits held up the train and stole $100-thousand in gold.Colizzi shifts the action to a poker game.
Cat Stevens (Terence Hill of "The Leopard") looks as cool as ice as he gambles with a quartet of hardcases.
Later, Cat's friend Hutch Bessy (Bud Spencer of "The 5-Man Army") finds him at a remote waterhole and tells him about the MK&T train robbery.
Hutch found the sole survivor of the train massacre.
Before the passenger perished, he told Hutch about Bill San Antonio's role in the robbery.
After they robbed the train, they killed everybody on board and sent the train onto Canyon City.Initially, Cat refuses to believe Bill could have planned and participated in the hold-up.
Colizzi flashbacks to a scene in a shack where Bill and Cat squared off against each other in a showdown after Bill's henchman Bud (José Manuel Martín of "The Savage Guns") sets the building ablaze.
He wants Cat to team up with him so they can locate the loot.
Not only did Bill San Antonio not die in the fire but he also robbed the train.
Hutch intervenes and they steal the $100-thousand dollars in gold.Neither Cat nor Hutch has an easy time holding onto the gold while surviving Bill and his gang.
Colizzi models loquacious Bill San Antonio after Eli Wallach's Mexican bandit Calvera from "The Magnificent Seven." Bill feels responsible for his cronies and wants to take care of them.
Good dialogue, rugged laconic heroes, grimy trigger-happy hooligans, atmospheric settings, Alfio Contini's impressive widescreen photography, and the scenic sun-drenched plains of Spain make "God Forgives, I Don't" a solid, satisfying saga, head and shoulders above the average spaghetti western..
This film begins with a train carrying a dignitary to a small town in the wilderness.
However, once it pulls into the station it comes to a sudden halt and it's then that the residents of the town realize that all but one man on the train have been shot and killed.
It is then disclosed that a man by the name of "Bill San Antonio" (Frank Wolff) was behind the train robbery and an insurance agent by the name of "Hutch " (Bud Spencer) wants to recover the stolen money.
It's at this point that he meets up with a stranger named "Cat" (Terence Hill) and asks him if he will help him out.
Even so, Hutch is not dissuaded so easily and subsequently follows Cat in the belief that he will lead him straight to Bill and the stolen gold.
Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a decent "Spaghetti Western" with the added benefit of Terence Hill and Bud Spencer performing together for the very first time.
This is only my second viewing of a Terrence Hill/Bud Spencer collaboration, the other being 1972's "La Collina Degli Stivali" or "Boot Hill", the title I saw it under.
I've yet to see a Trinity film, so maybe my opinion will change, but I don't see a whole lot to be enthused about regarding their output.
I Don't!" was better than "Boot Hill", an almost unintelligible affair made more complicated by a dark and muddy appearance that contributed to it's being hard to follow.
What's more, I don't recall either Hill or Spencer mentioned by their credited characters' names, that of Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessey.
Maybe they were, but the story didn't make it clear enough for me, and mentally I had to keep referencing them as Pretty Face and the 'fat guy'.
On the other hand, outlaw Bill San Antonio (Frank Wolff) stood out nicely villainous in contrast.
He might be the best reason for tuning in.The other troubling issue with the film version I saw today on the Encore Western Channel had to do with some clumsy editing.
The best example I can think of was right at the finale when San Antonio was about to face a showdown with Pretty Face and Bessey.
Not too suspenseful and definitely not too satisfying.I don't know, maybe back in the heyday of spaghetti Westerns, this might have been something new and different, but there are still enough better ones around, particularly Eastwood's trilogy.
In fact, now that I think about it, that's kind of how Terence Hill's character strikes me, sort of a poor man's Clint Eastwood, who's own take as the Stranger leaves just a little something to be desired..
I Don't!" (USA) is just a standard Spaghetti Western that doesn't really interest the viewer that much.
It has the team of Terence Hill and Bud Spencer and very little plot.
It was fun as a kid, but now it's average.Filmed in Spain.The film is the first in a trilogy followed by Ace High (1968) and Boot Hill (1969).Also recommended:They Call Me Trinity (1970)Trinity Is Still My Name (1971)My Name Is Nobody (1973)Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)