The Beast
- IMDb link: 0065460
- IMDb rating: 4.9 (250 votes)
- Genres: Action, Thriller, Crime, Drama, Western
- Director: Klaus Kinski, Mario Costa
- Cast: Gabriella Giorgelli, Giuseppe Cardillo, Paolo Casella and others
- Release date: 12 Sep 1970
- Release year: 1970
- Runtime: 89 minutes
- Country: Italy
- Keywords: spaghetti western, italo western, shootout, massacre, horseback riding, arson, rape attempt, theft scheme, ambush, killer
Plot:
A drunkard and maniac rapist is also an excellent marksman, so he is hired by a Mexican couple who is ready to anything to get their hands on a stash of $100,000 that is going to change hands in town, as a rich man is selling his property in San Diego. Not everything goes according to plan: the rich man is killed, but the money is in the bank; the abduction of his niece, who comes to take her inheritance with her, and her substitution for another girl, is found out by the local councilor; the killer's advances to the rich man's niece leads to her managing to escape from her prison, but he kills her - and just when the councilor was being taken to the criminals' hide-out, so he is also killed on the spot. A prize of $1,000 is offered to anyone who captures the killer. Since the criminal couple was only bringing half of the money with them (the other $50,000 had been kept in a Dallas' bank) suspicion arises in the killer's heart against his employers. The fact that he is spending his part of the money with women while waiting for the money transfer alerts a Mexican outlaw who happens to have been a friend of the rich man murdered. Both to avenge him, and get the money for himself and his band, It comes to a confrontation between the poor and greedy Mexican couple, backed by their family; the Mexican outlaws; the gringo killer; and the San Diego's lawmen. Plenty of men, and women, will bite the Mexican border's dust in successive gunfights.