A Bullet for the General

Viva Zapata, or at least the Zapata Western. Damiano Damiani's well-riddled oater is the first of its breed, a high-impact tale of a rogue turned revolutionary. Fresh from A Fistful of Dollars, Gian-Maria Volontè plays El Chucho, a badass bandit bent on exploiting the revolution. He brings along his brother, the demented priest El Santo, played by feral hepcat Klaus Kinski. The action is packed in this compressed concentrate about deceitful perversion and political conversion. In a fit of Trotsky-like zeal, El Chucho tosses gold to a passing peasant and tells him, “Don't buy bread with that, hombre, buy dynamite!”

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