| Plot: | Mercenary Hank Fellow takes a job guarding a cache of gold and winds up squaring off with a gang led by outlaw Gus Kennebeck, who killed his brother years earlier.
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| Overview: | The first western from director Tonino Valerii (DAY OF ANGER, THE PRICE OF POWER, A REASON TO LIVE, A REASON TO DIE, and MY NAME IS NOBODY). Hank Fellow (Craig Hill of TV's WHIRLYBIRDS and may spaghetti westerns, including ADIOS HOMBRE and BURY THEM DEEP) specializes in following gold shipments and waiting for them to be stolen. When they are, he recovers the gold and collects the usually generous rewards.
In TASTE OF KILLING, Fellow returns a government gold shipment heisted by a gang of Mexican bandits from a cavalry escort on its way to a bank in Omaha. The town's crafty bank president suspects that such a large sum will be hijacked again and convinces Fellow to invest his $10,000 reward in an insurance policy, guard the gold himself and double his money if he can successfully keep it from being stolen. Fellow winds up squaring off with a second gang led by outlaw Gus Kennebeck who had killed his brother years earlier. After a prolonged battle between the gang and the citizens of Omaha, Fellow faces Kennebeck in a shootout with a spectacularly brutal conclusion.
The supporting cast of TASTE OF KILLING includes many spaghetti western stalwarts including the dependable Fernando Sancho (THE MAN FROM NOWHERE, A PISTOL FOR RINGO) in a small role as the leader of the Mexican gang, Rada Rassimov (the prostitute Lee Van Cleef beats up in THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY) and George Martin (A PISTOL FOR RINGO, THE RETURN OF RINGO, SARTANA DOES NOT FORGIVE) in a particularly effective performance as Kennebeck.
The first-rate cinematography is by Stelvio Massi, who later became a director of Italian action dramas, most notably THE IRON COMMISSIONER with Giuliano Gemma and the appropriately energetic music is by frequent genre contributor Nico Fidenco (THE TEXICAN).
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