Ace High (1968 film)
Ace High Italian I quattro dellAve Maria , literally translated as The Four of the Hail Mary is an Technicolor Italian spaghetti Western by Giuseppe Colizzi from 1968. The film is the second in a trilogy started with God Forgives... I Dont and ended with Boot Hill.
The banker visits the condemned man Cacopoulos, who is to be hanged the next day, and offers to help him escape if he restores the money. At night the deputy is knifed by two men, who let Cacopoulos out. He takes the dead mans gun and shoots the two. He pours himself a footbath and tests the dead mens boots to find a pair that fits. He then pays a visit to the bank manager. Cacopoulos reminds the manager that he and two others put him in jail foryears, and on his release framed him for murder with a stolen knife, that again was used to kill the deputy tonight. Consequently, he wants guarantees that he will not be tricked again. Harold throws the knife but Cacopoulos swings the chair so it strikes in the back, then swings back around and shoots the manager, adding that it is guaranty enoughDressed as a peon on a donkey Cacopoulos meets Cat and Hutch and robs them. They follow his trail south to Mexico and encounter people that he has given money and a high wire performer Thomas, and assistant, that he offered money. They catch up with him in a village during a fiesta that he has paid for. While Cat is lured away looking for him elsewhere, Caco, playing a joke on Hutch, appears before him and, in a quieter place, tells him about Harold and the other two friends who shot his horse so he got caught after a bank robbery, and then framed him for murder. He says that he will give back their money, including what he has spent, if Hutch helps him collect his debts with the remaining two. The first one is Paco who is a revolutionary shown presiding over a kangaroo court condemning men to death for not fighting for country and freedom. His men capture Cacopoulos and Hutch, but Cat enlists help from another revolutionary, Canganceiro, by telling him about Cacopoulos treasure. Together they defeat Pacos men and the latter is killed by Cacopoulos, who in his wrath forgets to make him give back any money. After some pillaging by his men, Canganceiro starts another kangaroo c
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