Fernando Di Leo’s Typical Vibe
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Fernando Di Leo has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1970s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including A Fistful of Dollars.
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The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
Dir. Sergio Leone · With Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volonté

Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.
Dir. Fernando Di Leo · With Gastone Moschin, Barbara Bouchet, Mario Adorf

When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man.
Dir. Fernando Di Leo · With Mario Adorf, Henry Silva, Woody Strode
Once again billed as Montgomery Wood, Giuliano Gemma plays a civil war soldier who returns to his family land to find his family decimated, his property taken over by a family of Mexican bandits and his fiancee about to marry the Mexican gangster behind all this. Bent on revenge, he goes undercover disguised as a Mexican and discovers he has a daughter!
Dir. Duccio Tessari · With Giuliano Gemma, Lorella De Luca, Fernando Sancho
The sole survivor of a bloody massacre vows revenge on his attackers and on the men who killed his wife.
Dir. Sergio Corbucci · With Burt Reynolds, Aldo Sambrell, Nicoletta Machiavelli