Classic Westerns

Death Rides a Horse (1968)

Director: Giulio Petroni
Actors: Lee Van Cleef, John Phillip Law, Mario Brega, Luigi Pistilli, Anthony Dawson
Runtime: 116 min.

A boy witnesses a group of outlaws kill his family and grows up planning revenge. Fifteen years later he teams up with an ex-con, who was framed by the same outlaws, and sets out to find them.

Trivia: Lee van Cleef is one of the all time great Western villains. Luigi Pistilli and Mario Brega starred together in a number of Sergio Leone's westerns, including The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and For a Few Dollars More. Anthony Dawson (Burt Cavanaugh) played two different Bond villains: Professor R.J. Dent in Dr. No (1962) and Ernst Stavro Blofeld in both From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965).