Gunfight At Red Sands (1963)

Director: Ricardo Blasco (as Richard Blasco)
Country: Spain | Italy
Language: Spanish | Italian
Release Date: 19 September 1963 (Italy)
An avenging stranger guns down a gang of ruthless bandits in revenge for the murder of his family.

GUNFIGHT AT RED SANDS(US title)may well be the first of the so-called "spaghetti westerns" predating A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS by a year.Richard Harrison is effective as the hero,Gringo,who is not the sort of plains superman that future heroes of this genre would become but a family man who is eager to the right thing by his murdered father but does not strive to become a grim angel of vengeance to do so.Early staples of Italian western convention are already in place like the twitching henchman,good/bad girl and above all the soaring music and theme song.Good stuff and worthy of seeking out.