A GUNMAN CALLED DAKOTA

Un uomo chiamato Dakota - Italian title
Un homme appelle Dakota - French title
A Gunman Called Dakota - English title

A 1971 Italian production [Pageant International Film (Rome)]
Producer: Robert H. Oliver
Director: Anthny Green (Mario Sabatini)
Story: Mario Sabatini
Screenplay: Mario Sabatini
Cinematography: Mario Capriotti, Angelo Baistrocchi [Kodakcolor, Panavision]
Music: Carlo Esposito
Running time: 95 minutes

Cast:
Dakota -Anthony Freeman (Mario Novelli)
Deputy Sheriff John Lead - Gordon Mitchell (Charles Pendleton)
Sheriff Scott - Bill Vanders (William Vanders)
Scott’s daughter - Tamara Baroni
doctor  Mauro Mannatrizio
saloon girls - Cleofe del Cile, Rosella Bergamonti
old man - Franco Gula (Francesco Gula)
townsman - Tom Felag (Tamas Felegi)
henchman - Aldo Berti
with: Agostino De Simone, Grazia Zanetti, Fedele Gentile

After the Civil War, bands of marauders are roaming the West, devastating towns and attacking stagecoaches. A former Yankee official, Dakota, comes across the remains of yet another attack. He finds a wounded girl, which he takes to a doctor in a town whose deputy sheriff, Scott, has decided to wage war against the outlaws, and organizes an expedition against them. Asked to join, Dakota is saved from an ambush by bandits, in which the deputy sheriff’s posse all perish. Dakota discovers that the elusive leader of the robbers is Sheriff John Lead. To obtain evidence against Lead, Dakota, leaves town. In his absence, Lead kills or imprisons those who oppose his arrogance, and seeks to force the daughter of Deputy Scott to marry him against her will. Dakota returns in time to prevent the wedding and delivers the infamous Sheriff Lead into the hands of a federal agent.