Taste of Killing - Dubious Bounty Killer Hank Fellows tracks bank stage coaches to observe them being robbed.

Taste of Killing (1966)
Director: Tonino Valerii
Writers: Frank Gregory (dialogue written by), Víctor Auz (screenplay)
Stars: Craig Hill, George Martin, Piero Lulli
Genres: Western
Country: Spain | Italy
Language: English
Release Date: 25 April 1967 (West Germany)
Also Known As: For the Taste of Killing
Filming Locations: Desierto de Tabernas, Almería, Andalucía, Spain

Storyline:
Dubious Bounty Killer Hank Fellows tracks bank stage coaches to observe them being robbed. Only afterwards does he move in on the bandits to collect his reward. The manager of the Omaha city bank persuades him to accept double the reward money on his last job if, this time, Fellows will prevent a threatened robbery taking place at all.

Reviews:
"Bounty Killer Craig Hill follows monetary shipments and rescues the money after they're robbed. After a typical job, he gambles his ten-thousand dollar reward on a double-or-nothing proposition involving himself protecting a gold cache. Trying to take the gold is George Martin, the bandit that killed Hill's brother some time before.

A good enough Italian western, this has some decent action and suspense scenes, with Hill's character pulling off some excellent rifle work. Yes, it's derivative, but still pretty solid. The climax is well handled too.

Director Tonino Valerii went on to make My Name Is Nobody, one of the best spaghetti westerns ever.

Here, villainous Martin looks a bit like William Shatner, if he were cast as a Klingon!" Written by FightingWesterner on IMDb.com.

"This above average spaghetti western focuses on a bounty hunter who is hired by bankers in a small town to protect their cachet of gold against a predicted heist by Mexican bandits.

The director here was Tonino Valerii who was assistant director to Sergio Leone in his first two classic westerns, A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and For A Few Dollars More (1965). He then went it alone himself as a director making very good efforts such as Day of Anger (1967), A Taste of Killing was his debut as director and while it isn't quite as good, it is still definitely an impressive effort and better than most in its sub-genre. It benefits from a good turn from Craig Hill in the central role as the bounty hunter. He has unusual vulnerabilities such as the fact he can't read but he also has the more typical spaghetti western trait in that he is in possession of an unusual weapon, in this case a sniper rifle with telescopic sight. He is a nicely amoral central character who waits for robberies to happen and then proceeds to rob the robbers and return the money to the authorities and so bagging 10% in the process! The movie ends with a wry scene where our hero observes a gang of new bandits through his telescopic lens as they prepare to ambush the gold shipment he protected earlier on. He couldn't be happier - another 10% deal looks imminent." Written by Red-Barracuda on IMD.com.

Also Known As (AKA):
(original title): Per il gusto di uccidere
Belgium (French title): Lanky, l'homme à la carabine
Brazil: Pelo Prazer de Matar
Bulgaria (Bulgarian title): В името на убийството
Denmark: 100.000 dollars på højkant
Finland: Kivääri vuokrattavana
Hong Kong (Mandarin title): Fu xia shen qiang chu san hai
Italy (alternative title): Bounty Killer
Japan (Japanese title): さすらいの一匹狼
Norway: 100.000 dollars på høykant
Portugal: O Prazer de Matar
Slovenia: Sam proti tolpi
Spain: Cazador de recompensas
Turkey (Turkish title): Öldüren haydut
UK (TV title): Taste of Killing
USA (DVD box title): Taste of Killing
West Germany: Lanky Fellow - Der einsame Rächer
World-wide (English title): Taste of Killing
Yugoslavia (Serbian title): Sam protiv bande
Yugoslavia (Croatian title): Pratilac zlatne posiljke
For the Taste of Killing
Lanky Fellow
Taste for Killing

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