Unrelated to the Sartana character made famous by Gianni Garko, this similarly clad outlaw hero is Lee Calloway (played by genre veteran William Berger). Lee is a man with a price on his head and a gun that is ready to eliminate anyone seeking to cash him in.
The film opens with enough style and atmosphere to make it look appealing to any fans of the sub-genre that is the spaghetti western, but it quickly falls apart as its relatively short running time begins to drag like a long walk in the desert. The film isn’t without its bright spots, but unfortunately for the viewer, those spots are few and far between.
After evading several attempts to kill him, or capture him, Lee Calloway agrees to break out a group of outlaws who are being held in prison, and are about to find their necks fitted for a noose. Lee successfully busts the men out and they agree to pay him one half of the gold that they have stolen and hid in the desert.
What follows is a less-than-intricate game of cat and mouse, as the fugitives do their best to outwit Calloway, and he manages to turn the tables on them a number of times too. Sartana in the
-William J. White
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