Renegade Riders
(1967)
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Renegade Riders
(1967)
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| Edd Byrnes | ... |
Stuart
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| Guy Madison | ... |
Col. Thomas Blake
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Ennio Girolami | ... |
Chamaco Gonzales
(as Thomas Moore)
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Luisa Baratto | ... |
Manuela
(as Louise Barrett)
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Federico Boido | ... |
Fred Calhoun
(as Ryk Boyd)
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Rossella Bergamonti |
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Aysanoa Runachagua | ... |
Rios
(as Alfred Aysanoa)
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Piero Vida | ... |
LeSoeur
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Adriana Facchetti | ... |
Miss Belle
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Attilio Severini | ... |
Mesa Alvarez
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Giulio Maculani | ... |
Sheriff
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Mirella Pamphili | ... |
(as Mirella Panfili)
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Marco Mariani |
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Mario Donen |
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A gunman joins up with a gang of Confederate guerrillas to find a cache of missing Confederate gold.
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.