Renegade Riders (1967)
"Sette winchester per un massacro" (original title)

A gunman joins up with a gang of Confederate guerrillas to find a cache of missing Confederate gold.

Director:

Enzo G. Castellari

Writers:

Tito Carpi, Enzo G. Castellari,

Stars:

Edd Byrnes, Guy Madison, Ennio Girolami

Cast

Cast overview:
Edd Byrnes	...	Stuart
Guy Madison	...	Col. Thomas Blake
Ennio Girolami	...	Chamaco Gonzales (as Thomas Moore)
Luisa Baratto	...	Manuela (as Louise Barrett)
Federico Boido	...	Fred Calhoun (as Ryk Boyd)
Rossella Bergamonti
Aysanoa Runachagua	...	Rios (as Alfred Aysanoa)
Piero Vida	...	LeSoeur
Adriana Facchetti	...	Miss Belle
Attilio Severini	...	Mesa Alvarez
Giulio Maculani	...	Sheriff
Mirella Pamphili	...	(as Mirella Panfili)
Marco Mariani
Mario Donen

Storyline

A gunman joins up with a gang of Confederate guerrillas to find a cache of missing Confederate gold.

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Plot Keywords:

bounty hunter | bar shootout | civil war | french cook | treasure | 

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Taglines:

The meanest rebel ever born lives only to make 'em die!!!

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Genres:

Western

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

14 April 1967 (Italy)

Also Known As:

Blake's Marauders

Company Credits

Production Co:

Circus Film, Fono Roma, St. Regis Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

98 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Referenced in Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2005)

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Soundtracks

"Seven Men"
Composed by Francesco De Masi
Vocals Performed by Raul Lovecchio (as Raoul)

User Reviews

Standard but entertaining spaghetti western

Enzo G. Castellari was a director who seemed to contribute films in a variety of genres, from sci-fi to giallo. I get the feeling that his best ones are his spaghetti westerns though. In Payment in Blood he delivers a pretty solid entry. Its story features a renegade Confederate colonel who refuses to accept the South's defeat in the American Civil War and so continues the fight with a band of outlaws. A stranger saves one of his gang from execution and is taken into their fold when he reveals that he knows the whereabouts of a casket of buried money.

It would only be fair to say that the plot-line has quite a few similarities with Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy. Its hero, however, looks a little different from the shady leads from other spaghettis. He looks more like a character from an American traditional western, although he still has the same amorality and essentially acts in a similar way. The villains are decent enough and there is a fair amount of violent action to keep us entertained. Things are wrapped up with an interesting enough climax in an Indian burial ground, located in a cave. Overall, this is an entertaining, if unremarkable, western and should definitely find approval with fans of the Italian strand.