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Yankee (Philippe Leroy) rides into a small town on the US-Mexican border to learn that the whole area is under the rule of El Grande Concho (Adolfo Celi), an outlaw who uses the town as an outpost for his raids on money transports. Yankee is a bounty hunter and as such a businessman first, and when he notices how much Concho's henchmen are worth, he takes a trip to the lion's den and suggests to Concho to hand all his men over to the authorities to collect the collective bounty and then share. Hardly surprisingly, Concho doesn't bite, but Yankee also has an alternative proposal: Somehow he has gotten his hands on the loot from Concho's last, botched up raid, and proposes to hand it over to Concho for a fee. Concho sends some of his men with Yankee to retrieve the loot, but Yankee shoots them all and sends them back to Concho. Then he sends a hearse to Concho's place to collect the dead, knowing that Concho will conclude that Yankee must be in town then, so he and his men storm into town - while Yankee has actually come on the hearse and now takes out the sparse guards to kidnap Concho's girlfriend (Mirella Martin), whom he then ties up in the nearby ruins of an abandoned settlement for Concho and his men to retrieve - only he uses the ruins as a death trap and tries to take out all of Concho's men. However, Concho grows wise to his hide-out within the ruins and captures him to have him tortured to death. Yankee though gets unexpected assistance from Concho's second in command Luiz (Tomás Torres), who frees him in return for half the bounty should he be able to deliver Concho and his entire gang to justice.

Concho and his men prepare for another raid, one that pretty much turns into a giant shoot-out that leaves pretty much everyone dead in its wake, with Concho and Yankee remaining the last two standing for a final duel ...

It is said that the script for Yankee had already been written by Alberto Silvestri and Alfonso Balcázar when Tinto Brass was brought in to make a movie to resemble the then current smash hit A Fistful of Dollars by Sergio Leone - which seems a bold choice, as Brass at the time was mainly known for his avant garde movies (he didn't lean ever more heavily towards erotica until 10 years later), and as a result the edit he delivered of the movie was very much on the abstract side, much to the producers' dismay, who had the film completely re-edited. The result is a movie that is certainly more comicbook like than Leone's classic  in both imagery and colours - with comicbooks having been a big inspiration to Brass when making this one -, but that said still a film very much in tune with the earlier film, maybe not as refined as Leone's but still with quite a few awesome setpieces (the shoot-out in the ruins being worth a special mention) to make it memorable, and in all this sure is a film that should make spaghetti western fans (and not only them) pretty happy - even if at the same time it's not one of Brass's more "important" movies.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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