A Town Called Hell Details

Although shot in Spain, this western also shown as A Town Called Bastard is one of the few British ventures into the genre. Set in 1895 in Mexico, it is a brutal affair, in which Stella Stevens seeks to discover who killed her husband a decade earlier, while Martin Landau threatens to reveal that his brother, Robert Shaw, is not a priest but a ruthless bandit. The cast nearly compensates for a slackness in direction from the normally accomplished Robert Parrish, as the film lurches with surprising awkwardness from tightly shot moments of brooding tension to frantic outbursts of stylised violence.

Shot in Spain with a motley cast and crew, starting with the striking image of Stella Stevens, beatifically asleep in a... read more on Time Out