Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

It's true that a number of elements in "The Forgotten Pistolero" will be familiar to fans of spaghetti westerns. The basic plot - revenge against those who killed a parent - has been used many times. Also, some of the characters will provoke a deja-vu feeling in the minds of many viewers. Still, there is a lot to enjoy in taking a journey down this familiar road. It's often directed in an interesting manner, with crooked camera angles and zoom lenses among other unconventional manners. Indeed, the action sequences (fist fights, gun battles) are directed to bring much impact.One of the villains happens to be a woman for a change, which will make you wonder how this unusual menace will be dealt with. The Roberto Pregadio music score is very memorable. The production values are solid. And there is a great climax. Is there a flaw to be found anywhere? Well, I have to admit that the middle section of the movie was somewhat slow- moving and talky, though it didn't bother me THAT much. And despite that problem, the movie all the same is a solid example of its genre.

Forgotten Pistolero 1969 was based off a Greek Tragedy and told wonderfully in this Ferdinando Baldi aka Ted Kaplan movie, who did 10 SW movies in his career well known ones such as Blindman, Get Mean, Texas Adios, and Forgotten Pistolero. What is great is the amazing music score that immediately starts by Roberto Pregadio which was used in the movie "Kill Bill". The music really makes a SW movie and the music here really sets the mood. I liked such scenes as when Peter Martell's character Rafael is being hunted down from Mexico into Texas by Miguel (Jose Manuel Martin)who to me has the face and good acting for a small part SW actor that plays Mexican bandit roles to the tee. He finds boyhood friend Sebastian and helps him remember his blocked out past and seek the revenge they both rightfully deserve. It was amazing the ending scene with the Hacienda burning and the music playing and justice being served. You have to see it and will not be sorry....

Poor Mexican farmer Leonard Mann is met one day by mysterious stranger Peter Martell, who tells him that he's really the son of a wealthy landowner, murdered by his unfaithful wife and her lover. They then travel to his boyhood home to seek revenge, reclaim his birthright, and save his long-lost (and long suffering) sister from his mother's now ex-lover.The Forgotten Pistolero, which borrows a little from Hamlet, is a well-told story, with excellent production values, and enough great western/Mexican atmosphere to go around. The imitation Ennio Morricone score by Roberto Pregado is pretty swell too.The entire cast give really great performances, though the lack of any real bankable international star probably helped get this above-average Italian western unjustly buried. Mann and Martell are exceptional though, and they do make a great team.The climax amidst a flaming backdrop is superb and ultimately quite satisfying.However, there are some unanswered questions regarding Mann's apparent amnesia in regards to his childhood, or lack thereof. Is he even the same person? Did he tell the villain the truth when they first met? No answer is given.

As soon as the Forgotten Pistolero starts, the theme tune is instantly familiar - with the whistled score probably surpassed only by Morricone's Dollars trilogy soundtracks, or maybe the Magnificent Seven, when it comes to being used as the backdrop to western sketches everywhere. It is made all the more beautiful by the mountainous Almeria backdrop.The film itself is equally impressive. Directed by the prolific Ferdinando Baldi, it begins with Rafael (Pietro Martellanza) being pursued by a gang of Mexicans. Surviving the ambush (to the sound of that glorious theme), he finds himself finally locating child-hood friend Sebastian (Leonard Mann).Sebastian is informed that the woman he believed to be his mother, and who had raised him since a child, had in fact rescued him as an infant from the brutal attack and mass murder that had cost his father his life. Rafael tells him that this attack had been arranged by his real mother (Paluzzi) and her lover.Sebastian's sister, who had witnessed the massacre all those years ago, had since fallen in love with Rafael (for which he had been severely punished and hounded). The extent of this punishment becomes clear later in the movie when, whilst captive, he is forced to lie next to a beautiful lady, and taunted that he now only has his muscles to prove his manhood.This revenge story follows a different path to the majority of Euro-westerns, with emphasis on the tale rather than action (that said, there are some great action scenes). It is a highly captivating and atmospheric movie, gripping from start to finish. Well worth the watch but - warning - you'll be whistling the music for days!