A TASTE FOR KILLING

Per il gusto di uccidere – Italian tile

Cazador de recompensas – Spanish title
100.000 dollars på højkant – Danish title
Kivääri vuokrattavana – Finnish title
Lanky, l'homme à la carabine – French title
Lanky Fellow – Der einsame Racher – German title
Prazer de matar – Portuguese title
100,000 dollar i sikte – Swedish title
Sam protiv bande – Turkish title
For the Taste of Killing – English title
A Taste for Killing – English title

A 1966 Italian, Spanish co-production [Hercules Cinematografica (Rome), Montan Films (Madrid)]
Producers: Francesco Genesi, Vincenzo Genesi, Daniele Senator, José López Moreno
Director: Tonino Valerii
Story: Tonino Valerii
Screenplay Víctor Auz (Victor Cstro), Augusto Finocchi, Remigio Del Grosso, Sandro Continenza, Massimo Capriccioli, Leonardo Martin
Cinematography: Stelvio Massi [Eastmancolor, CinemaScope]
Music: Nico Fidenco
Song: “Il gusto di uccidere” sung by Nico Fidenco
Song: “Lanky Fellow” sung by Wilder Brothers
Running time: 88 minutes

Cast:
Hank ‘Lanky’ Fellows – Craig Hill (Craig Fowler)
Gus Kennebeck – George Martin (Francisco Martinez)
Collins – Peter Carter (Giusva Lulli)
Molly/Peggy Kennebeck – Diana Martin
Aarons – Frank Ressell (Domenico Orabona)
Isabelle Kennebeck – Rada Rassimov (Rada Djrassimovic)
Jefferson – Graham Sooty (Eugenio Galadino)
Mingo/Machete – George Wang (Wang Chunyang)
Sanchez – Fernando Sancho (Fernando Les)
John Kennebeck – José Marco (José Rosello)
Sheriff – Lorenzo Robledo
Bill Kilpatrick – Sancho Garcia (Felix Gracia)
Rodrigo – Manuel Martin (José Martin)
Peter – José Canalejas
Steve – Dario De Grasi
Juarez – Manuel Bermudez
White – Nazzareno Natale
Molly – Olga Karlatos
Sanchez henchman – Enrique Santiago
Poker players – Ulrich Müller, Joseph Bradley
Army Captain - Frank Braña (Francisco Pérez)
Stunts: Miguel Pedegrosa

Hank ‘Lanky Fellow’ Fellows is a bounty hunter who, unlike his colleagues, does not pursue wanted outlaws but pursues convoys carrying money from one bank to another, hoping that bandits strike and try to take possession of the transported goods. At that point he goes into action, exterminates them all with his rifle which is fitted with a scope and retrieves the money and takes the money back the to the bank and asking for a fair percentage as a reward. During one of these adventures Lanky arrives at Omaka to bring back the gold that bandits had stolen from an armored wagon. Here Collins, a wealthy mine owner, proposes to Lanky, which he accepts, to invest ten thousand dollars that he just earned to ensure an upcoming gold deposit is made. In the event that the bank is attacked by bandits and the gold is stolen, Fellows would lose his ten thousand dollars; if not he would double that figure. When the bandits arrive at Omaka to steal the gold, in addition to having several members killed, the find no money in the vault of the bank, suffering a severe defeat. The town calms down and Lanky is able to eliminate the leader of the gang and his right-hand man. Lanky, doubled his capital, and again goes in search of other adventures.

[Trivia ~ Valerii succeeded in replacing the Spaniard Ricardo Blasco (who had quarreled with the producers) and had chosen as its lead a young American actor vaguely similar to Sean Connery (who knows who it was) who, however, was drugged and accordingly was sent away. In his place Craig Hill, a veteran Euro-western actor.]

YouTube trailer link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMq30NAj4bc