Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Perception_de_Ambiguity Tony Anthony (which you may know as the titular character of 'Blindman') probably is the most feminine of all SW anti-heroes, and still one of the coolest. He's just so damn relaxed that the coolness comes naturally, there's little of that typical affectation on his part. He is a slouch, stoic but not stilted, he's wearing a pink shirt, has bleached blond hair and there's no sign of any homophobic tendencies (when he shoots a baddie who falls into his lap he doesn't react with either irony or macho behaviour to ensure us how masculine he is). After he got beat up badly he rescues a woman who later wordlessly rides on a horse with him on the back of the horse and her in front, him holding on to her hips to not fall off, but not in any sexual way. In the sequel, 'The Stranger Returns', he's even carrying around a parasol for much of the running time. I find it funny that its movie poster even asks the question: "Is he interested in women?"Despite all that he's a real badass who most of the time is unquestionably more skilled and smarter than any of his enemies. There's no doubt he'll prevail in the end and we still care, we'd even care if he hadn't been beaten up (see sequel), which is a scene that most SWs have to make us care about our anti-hero because most viewers tend not to care about characters who have the upper hand all of the time. It's worth to note that Tony Anthony more than most stars of a movie not only shapes his own character but apparently the films as a whole as a producer and writer. Ever since this film he always starred in the movies he played in, that guy wouldn't play second fiddle to anyone.Dialogue in the film is EXTREMELY sparse, although it doesn't have more action than your average SW. After the first 15 minutes there is a section in the film that is the most essential to the plot and it has the most dialogue. Cut away that 10-minute section and the complete dialogue adds up to maybe 20 lines. The main music theme rocks melancholically and is catchy, arguably it's a bit overused, but this never bothers me in a film if the tune is good. The additional score arrangements are also effective but the film doesn't shy away from silent sections either. Certainly there's nothing special about the film (except that it WORKS), it's just a lot of cool fun. Every bit as good as the surprisingly enjoyable sequel.

John Seal There's not a lot I can say about A Stranger In Town that other reviews haven't already mentioned, but I'll toss in my two cents worth for good measure. If you're expecting a straight rip-off of Clint Eastwood's spaghetti oaters you will be disappointed, because this film is a gritty, filthy little affair miles away from Leone's mytho-poetic masterpieces. Richard Anthony isn't much of an actor, but his performance as the titular anti-hero brings a level of realism to the proceedings that Eastwood's Man With No Name never had. In addition, the decision to fore-go dialogue for much of the film is a very wise one, as Anthony is allowed to play to his strengths as a physical performer. It's not a great film by any stretch--it certainly can't begin to equal the artistic and emotional heights of Leone's films--but A Stranger In Town is still a very satisfying genre entry.

unbrokenmetal There are few films that can demonstrate in a nutshell what spaghetti westerns are about. The particular strength of "Un dollaro tra i denti" is that everything that isn't required was stripped off. Here you get the basic ingredients straight in your face: a mysterious stranger (Tony Anthony) arrives in a town. He is not a hero - his only motivation is money, and he offers the villain (Frank Wolff) a deal. After the deal isn't kept, i.e. the money isn't shared, the stranger will have his revenge. Nobody talks very much, the first minutes are without any dialogue at all. The musical theme is returning again and again, supplying the feeling that whatever is going to happen will be inevitable. Doomed to die with his boots on, Wolff may fire as many bullets with his machine-gun on Anthony as he likes, there's no escape...

Wizard-8 I love spaghetti westerns, but this one was extremely tough to sit through. It's a really cheap FISTFUL OF DOLLARS imitation, so cheap that apparently they were only able to afford a few bars of music to be composed! (And as you might have guessed, they play them over... and over... and over... and over, until you want to kick a shoe into your TV.Tony Anthony is one of the least charismatic cowboys even to grace the screen - half the time he looks like he's drunk, and the other half of the time he seems like he's going to burst into tears! And as the previous poster mentioned, his character doesn't act very cool and smart. Though I can only dream of being as sleek as The Man With No Name, The Stranger does some really dumb things that even I would be careful not to do!