Cinematheque: Spaghetti Westerns

In his only Spaghetti Western, Reynolds plays an Indian who, armed with a hatchet and bow-and-arrow, relentlessly pursues the outlaw who scalped and killed his woman. The startling score by Ennio Morricone (here credited as ‘Leo Nichols’) features a chorus of shrieking voices and pounding surf guitar. The main theme was later used to great comic effect in Alexander Payne’s Election. With Burt Reynolds, Fernando Rey, Aldo Sambrell.