I didn't come in to this flick in the beginning. I came in somewhere's near the middle, the main character walking into a bar with a plinky plink piano playing...at various tempos...and a cut scene to him playing A PIPE ORGAN, in a horse barn. (yes, you read that right) A sub character, comes in from the back and eventually shows his little mech project (with a goofy name of course)- a badly stylized "tiki" head that rolls, stops, flips its lid and lights a lighter inside...My suspended disbelief was also suspended.Thanks, Sony for broadcasting barrel scrapers like this.I would call this more of a peyote western.

Wily roving gunslinger Sartana (a typically fine performance by Gianni Garko) kills three corrupt lawmen and has himself put in prison. Sartana escapes from jail with his equally shrewd partner Grand Full (well played by Piero Lulli), who knows where a fortune in both gold and counterfeit money is hidden. Naturally, several other treacherous folks also want to get their greedy hands on said fortune. Director Giuliano Carnimeo, working from a clever script by Tito Carpi, Ernesto Gastaldi, and Eduardo Manzanos Brochero, relates the tricky and absorbing story at a steady pace, maintains a suitably harsh and gritty tone through (the moments of sadistic violence and torture are pretty rough stuff), stages the exciting shoot-outs with considerable skill and brio, and further spices things up with a nice line in wickedly amusing sarcastic humor. The charismatic Garko truly shines in the lead; he receives able support from Lulli, the fetching Nieves Navarro as sly scheming widow Senora Manassas, Jose Jaspe as the vicious and unhinged General Monk, and Franco Pesce as a rascally, quick-witted old goat gambler. Moreover, this movie has a few nifty gimmicks which include a deadly organ and an equally lethal wind-up walking cigarette lighter. Both Julio Ortas' expansive widescreen cinematography and Bruno Nicolai's robust sweeping score are up to par. A very enjoyable film.

Giuliano Carnimeo's "Una Nuvola Di Polvere... Un Grido Di Morte... Arriva Sartana" aka. "Light The Fuse... Sartana Is Coming" is an excellent Spaghetti Western and arguably the best of the Sartana movies with Gianni Garko.Sartana, the Italian Western's best dressed antihero, is often described as a kind of Spaghetti Western James Bond, which is very reasonable, since does not only have great style, but he uses lots gadgets and tricks . Much alike the fact that many films had 'Django' in their title after Sergio Corbucci's masterpiece "Django" of 1966, Sartana's name was used in quite a bunch of Spaghetti Westerns (not quite as often as Django was used), but none of these films ever came close to the original series with Gianni Garko.In "Light The Fuse... Sartana Is Coming", Sartana (Garko) is on the hunt for half a million dollars in gold and 2 million dollars of counterfeit money. Sartana is not the only one who is keen on the gold, of course, a gunslinger named Grand Full (Piero Lulli), a beautiful but sneaky widow (Nieves Navarro) and the slightly insane General Monk (José Jaspe) are just three out of many folks who are after the gold.The acting ins "Light In The Fuse... Sartana Is Coming" is great, especially Gianni Garko delivers a (once again) excellent performance as Sartana. Lovely Nieves Navarro is very convincing as Senora Manassas, a widow who is as crafty as she is beautiful, Spaghetti Western regular Piero Lulli is great as gunslinger Grand Full. The crazy General Monk played by José Jaspe is another great, typical Spaghetti Western character. The supporting cast furthermore contains actors like Bruno Corazzari, whom genre-fans should know for his performances in Sergio Leone's "Once Upon A Time In The West" and Sergio Corbucci's "The Great Silence". Bruno Nicolai's score is excellent and makes the movie even better."Light The Fuse... Sartana Is Coming" is what a good Spaghetti Western should be like: A stylish movie with a very good plot, great actors, good gunplay, black humor and an excellent score, superbly photographed in great locations. All of the Sartana movies with Gianni Garko are very cool, fun Spaghetti Westerns, this one is arguably the best of the series. All said, "Light The Fuse... Sartana is Coming" is a great Spaghetti Western, and a must-see for every fan of the genre.

Sartana comes around for another case of Wild West crime mystery. This time it's a search for a well-hidden cache of gold (and $2 million in counterfeit money) - and it seems that half the neighborhood is looking for all of it, too - including (but not limited to!) corrupt prison warden, sheriff, a bunch of his deputees, self-proclaimed general and his army for hire, brothers, wives, partners, lovers and friends of deceased gold/money owners, federal agents, false federal agents, elderly gamblers/inventors, gambling house owners and the Apache (well, at least, their cave is involved). As you can probably imagine, with such a ridiculously vast array of characters, the "mystery" gets so muddled that you simply don't care about all the double-, triple- and quadruple-crossings going on all the time. A more talented director and/or writer COULD have been able to pull this thing off (probably by making some plot elements less pronounced than the rest), but as it stands, unfortunately, the whole thing suffers from the lack of consistent pacing - and some order or structure to what's going on.Though certainly not a masterpiece, the movie is still watchable and holds a certain undeniable entertainment value - and has a lot of shootouts and a really large body count (just think about the sheer number of people competing to get their hands on that gold who are certain to get killed before the final confrontation), complete with Django-like multi-barreled gun massacre the likes of which you probably won't see anywhere else. Also, while perhaps not brilliant, the music - like in many spaghetti westerns - is quite good, and adds a lot of atmosphere to the proceedings.Strangely, some supporting actors from the previous Sartana movie ("Have a good funeral, my friend - Sartana will pay") - namely, the undertaker (now turned gambler?) and Chinese servant - make appearances here - though it isn't clear if they are supposed to play the same characters they did in the previous installment. And how the hell did Sartana get the Alfie back, what with all the exploding in sheriff's face Alfie did fifteen minutes earlier? Anyway, if you are looking for an easy (if not necessarily very intellectually stimulating) way to spend 90 minutes of your life, give this one a try; perhaps even if you are not a spaghetti western fan - as the whole thing sometimes resembles more a Sherlock Holmes mystery than a typical western.