The Mercenary

IMDb link: 0063293
IMDb rating: 7.1 (6,907 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Western
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Cast: Franco Nero, Tony Musante, Franco Giacobini, Eduardo Fajardo and others

Release date: 22 Apr 1969
Release year: 1968
Runtime: 110 minutes
Country: Italy, Spain, United States
Keywords: humiliated, reference to simon bolivar, buried to the neck, spaghetti western, sadism, machine gun, day of the dead, italo western, mine worker, mexican revolutionary

Plot:

While a Mexican revolutionary lies low as a U.S. rodeo clown, the cynical Polish mercenary who tutored the idealistic peasant tells how he and a dedicated female radical fought for the soul of the guerrilla general Paco, as Mexicans threw off repressive government and all-powerful landowners in the 1910s. Tracked by the vengeful Curly, Paco liberates villages, but is tempted by social banditry's treasures, which Kowalski revels in.

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