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WOW! This is a real find!
I was watching a ninja pack dvd and came upon the little gem-a spaghetti western/kung fu film!
Chen Lee is a Chinese immagrant looking for work as a cowboy in Texas (!!!). He runs into racist hicks and breaks up a illegal slavery ring-which puts him at odds with a big shot rancher who hire various hitmen to try and kill him. That failing,the evil rancher hires another martial arts expert for a duel to the death!
Klaus Kinski plays one of the hitmen,a sadist who likes to scalp folks and dress up his toy doll with the hair. Another is played by 60's Hercules Gordon Mitchell. Giacomo Rossi Stuart (who played the hero in Bava's KILL BABY KILL and Vincent Price's son in the LAST MAN ON EARTH) gets his eyes pulled out in gory graphic detail!
Lotsa cool fights (Chen even knocks out a bull!) and familar expliotation actors make this one lotsa fun!
Oh-the music is great too!
Heres a German trailer....(no English ones on you tube...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-jnTqKHAPM
I just watched this a few weeks ago and you're right, it's fantastic.