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A Bullet For The General (1966) Directed by Damiano Damiani

Genre: Western / Drama

A fast paced and vicious spaghetti western starring Klaus Kinski and Lou Castel, A Bullet For The General begins as a gang of former Mexican rebels attempt to rob a train carrying munitions, which they plan to sell to a revolutionary named General Elias. One of the passengers on the train, a gringo named Bill Tate (Castel), helps the bandits steal the weapons, ingratiating him with the leader of the bandits, El Chuncho, who accepts him into his gang. However, Tate is really an assassin sent by the Mexican government to kill General Elias, who is an old friend of El Chuncho's. Incensed at the murder of his old friend, El Chuncho is inspired to become a revolutionary once again, but not before he hunts down Tate and kills him.

A Bullet For The General was adapted by Franco Solinas, best known for his screenplays for Pontecorvo and Costa-Gavras (Solinas has described A Bullet for the General as a pop version of The Battle of Algiers). The central theme of his work on Italian Westerns is the idea of the corrupting force of American interventionism, something which has remained a relevant issue in the forty years since A Bullet For The General was released. The widescreen cinematography by Antonio Secchi is atmospheric enough, although not as distinctive as Enzo Barboni’s work on the contemporary Django. It’s certainly Secchi’s best work and much of the rest of his filmography consists of mediocre exploitation movies. Luis Bacalov provides a rich and memorable music score which is very much in the spirit of Morricone’s work in the genre – unsurprising perhaps since it was supervised by Morricone himself.

A Bullet For The General is exciting and intelligent and seems to have been at least a minor influence on Sam Peckinpah’s great movie set during the Mexican Revolution, The Wild Bunch. It gains from the controlled direction of Damiano Damiani who refrains from indulging in the grandiose sadism of some of his contemporaries.

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