Purely Joyful Movie!

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

'His Name was Sam Walbash, but They Call Him Amen' is one of the most ridiculous titles, I ever heard of. First off, it's really long and second off, nobody call him Amen, in the film. Unless, they meant 'a man', because it kinda makes more sense. They do call him, 'a man', a few times, in the film. I'm kinda thinking it was mistranslating or something. Still, it's a horrible title for a film. I would rather have the 'Savage Guns' title, they used in some US release than that title. 'The Savage Guns', title, even has some problems with it; as you see, there is already a Spaghetti Western movie titled 'Savage Guns' made in 1962. That movie is the first credited as the first traditional Spaghetti Western film. This 1971 movie should be mark as the one that nearly kill the Spaghetti western film genre. Whatever, this movie wants to be call; it's so bad, the owners didn't even bother, renewing their copyright, and since then, the movie has fallen in public domain. So it's pretty easy to find, really bad transfer DVD copies of this film. It add to the crappiest of this already grainy film. It was filmed in widescreen mode, but the DVD copies out there, doesn't know that, so you're losing some resolution, you might have zooms to fill an HDTV screen. Directed by Miles Deem AKA Demofilo Fidani, the movie tells the story of Sam Walbash/Wallace (Robert Woods), whom was wounded by Mash Flannigan's (Dean Stratford AKA Dino Strano) gang who enters a saloon and kills everybody in sight including his brother. Walbash chases Flannigan to Golden City for revenge, leading to a deadly showdown. While, this sub-up seems simple enough, the movie makes the plot a lot more complex and confusing than it should be, by adding a lot of barely explain exposition scenes that doesn't link, one bit to the main plot. First off, there is the main character's phobia of swinging doors. You would think this would had, something to do with his brother's death, but no, it's from a memory of him as a child, in which his father and mother were gunned down in their home—for no apparent reason—by a gang that must have fired 100 bullets to kill two people. Wow-overkill! It's not even clear why the movie gives this up ¾ in the film, because it doesn't looks like Flannigan did it. He had nothing to do with that attack. It would be nice to establish that he got the post-traumatic stress from that event in the beginning of the film. Sadly, it doesn't add anything to the film. It felt like a distracted more than a key part of the story. Honestly, the movie could had been better if they used this post-trauma stress in the climax of the film, with his fight with Flannigan, but no. Another miss opportunity is Mash Flannigan hiring gunfighters. They spent minutes, explaining each character's history, but the three bounty hunters; Gordon Mitchell, Lincoln Tate and Peter Martell are barely in the film. They could have add so much to the climax, but they MIA, during those scenes. The over the top action is mostly a miss than hit for me. I hate the over kill bullet spraying. I doubt a six bullet revolver shoots more than six bullets are a time. I dislike the one shot death scenes with over acting from the actors playing the victims. It's really unrealistic. People in this film seem to have not only unlimited funds for unlimited guns and ammos, but the wherewithal to, overnight, acquire a dummy U.S. Army pay wagon with a hand-cranked fake looking Gatling gun and two wax dummies dressed in Army uniforms. Even the hand to hand combat is weak. There is a barroom brawl that uses way too much slow motion to truly be effective. I like the boxing match, even if it felt like filler. I like a sub-plot of a boxer not fixing his fight, and getting shot over it. It was a lot more interesting than the main plot. Then, there was the really hard to get through 'musical' type number by one excruciating French singer. It was horrible to listen to. My ears kept on bleeding, because of it. The other music in the film wasn't that bad. The Music score by Lallo Gori sounds so genetic. I guess, they were trying to past off as somebody with talent like Ennio Morricone. It wasn't anything special. The acting is just horrible. There are plenty of bad English dubbing. Robert Woods actually is forgettable. He didn't really stand out for most of the film. I can only tell him apart when the dooraphobia kicks in. Simonetta Vitelli is beautiful as Fanny the barmaid. I can't recalled anything else, besides good about that. She's spent most of the movie, getting beat up and hardly doing anything about it. The movie was shot, bad. Lots of badly done, day for night, camera shots and slow motion galloping. Lots of galloping to burn up some time for all the credits. Too bad, the movie Title was in a white font. It made it really hard to see in the slow-motions opening scenes because of the bright sun. The only good shots from this film are when Robert Woods is reacting to the swinging door phobia. Overall: After watching this movie, it was perfectly clear to me why Demofilo Fidani is called the Ed Wood of the spaghetti western. This movie is amateurish, ultra-cheap production that lacks all possible coherence, visually as well as story-wise. I'm not sure, why they needed to add so much things. It's 85 min. long. According to critics, this movie was to pay tribute to Eli Wallach. I think, he would disowned this movie, if he saw it. It was just too awful.

A cruel and ruthless bandit kills a tavern owner who had ratted him out to the authorities. Sam Wallbush witnesses the murder, as well as the murder of his brother who happens to get in the way of the bandit. Sam swears revenge and sets out for blood.Title changes to Savage Guns.This is a freaky poorly dubbed weird movie directed by a maniac.The story goes no where and you will pray you can get your 90 minutes back.The bar dance numbers are something to NOT see. Is that a guy or what?Absolutely horrible. It really is a train wreck directed by the Ed Wood of spaghetti westerns.

Savage Guns (video title) is a dirt cheap, bottom of the barrel spaghetti western in which the survivor of a massacre hunts the bandits who killed his brother and left him for dead, catching up with them in a town controlled by their crooked boss.Despite plenty of violence, this manages to be both dull and colorless with bad characterizations and almost no imagination or humor.Lead actor Robert Woods lives up to his name with a wooden and uncharismatic performance that fails to generate any warmth or sympathy whatsoever. In other words, the viewer never really roots for him despite the fact that he's the protagonist.The worst scene (in my opinion) is the annoying dance hall scene where a woman sings in a heavy and terribly unsexy German accent. It was the worst scene in Blazing Saddles and the worst one here!

This showed up on a DVD a buddy of mine bought for me. They had it listed as "The Savage Guns" which was an entirely different movie. Obviously the folks who packaged the DVD never bothered to look at what they were burning on the disk.Anyway, this movie is about as bad as they come. The sound track is a combination TV Batman/Early James Bond/Spaghetti western. Lots of galloping around to this music. It appears that the guy has to gallop between scenes to burn up some time and give the sound track folks something to do.English is dubbed over the Italian and it really shows. I wish it had been just a little bit worse and then it would have had some of the campy feel of the Ed Wood films. AS it is, it is just plain awful.