Roy Colt and Winchester Jack

Roy Colt and Winchester Jack (1970)

Roy Colt e Winchester Jack

Two outlaws compete with each other over a treasure map that will lead them to buried gold while one of them is in league with a sadistic priest-turned-crime lord, while a young Native American girl helps both outlaws and plays both sides against each other.

Date of release
1970-08-13
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (31)
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Western, Comedy
Director
Mario Bava

Casting

Interesting facts

Roy Colt & Winchester Jack is a 1970 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Mario Bava and starring Brett Halsey, Marilù Tolo, Charles Southwood and Isa Miranda.

Production

Roy Colt & Winchester Jack was Produzioni Atlas Consorziate producer Mario Bregni's reward for director Mario Bava after he rescued the film Five Dolls for an August Moon. The screenplay was written by Mario di Nardo, who had also written Five Dolls, a script which Bava did not care for.

Bava biographer Tim Lucas commented that following the release of Once Upon a Time in the West in 1968, Spaghetti Westerns seemed to be in competition with regard to which film could come up with the most flagrantly bizarre characters and situations. This led to Spaghetti Westerns featuring martial arts, exploitive scenes of rape and gore, and gothic themes.

Charles Southwood stated that Roy Colt & Winchester Jack was "the best thing I did over [in Italy]" and stated that the film was improvised on a day-by-day basis. Southwood continued that "everyone contributed ideas. It was hilarity every morning. We'd make up scenes in the trailer!"

The credits of the film state that it was filmed at De Paolis Studios, but Halsey believes that only the interiors were shot there as he did not recall De Paolis having any standing Western town, and believes the town scenes may have been shot at Cinecittà as the studios were close to each other.

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