Silver Saddle

Silver Saddle Italian Sella dargento also released under the titles The Man in the Silver Saddle and They Died with Their Boots On, is a 1978 Spaghetti Western. It is the third and final western directed by Lucio Fulci and one of the last spaghetti westerns to be produced by a European studio. The film was based on an original story written by screenwriter Adriano Bolzoni and directed by Fulci for the Italian studio Rizzoli Film Productions.

The film opens in a small South Texas bordertown in the 1850s. A poor farmer and his young son arrive into the settlement where the farmer confronts Luke Fletcher Donald OBrien, a thieving henchman employed by wealthy land baron Richard Barrett. The man complains to Fletcher that he had been cheated by Barrett claiming he had been sold a deed to nonexistent property. Fletcher finally shoots the farmer, killing the man in front of his young son, and begins laughing. His son then picks up his fathers gun, uses it to kill Fletcher, and rides out of town with Fletchers horse and a distinctive silvertrimmed saddle.The boy is next seen several years later and has since become a hardened bounty hunter calling himself Roy Blood Giuliano Gemma. He meets an elderly drifter, TwoStrike Snake Geoffrey Lewis, who accompanies him to the frontier town of Cerriotts. Snake is a colorful character who claims that the story of the silver saddle and the boy who avenged his fathers death is well known and that he wishes to join Blood in his travels. On the way, Snake often scavenges the remains of those killed in gunfights by Roy Blood. ........

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