In the cactus-studded Mexican backcountry of the 1860s, a surly drifter who could easily be mistaken for the Man with No Name becomes protector and lethal helpmate to a red-haired nun wanted by the French for aiding the Juarista revolutionaries. Essentially a two-character showcase for the newly stellar Clint Eastwood and what was beginning to seem the poststellar Shirley MacLaine (subbing for Elizabeth Taylor), this sardonic study in testy collaboration, mutual deception and distrust, and slightly creepy sexual attraction is highly rated by a fairly small number of critics--chiefly, one suspects, for the dual-auteur cachet of having been directed by Don Siegel and based on a story by Budd Boetticher. Others deem it an undersauced spaghetti Western and find that the stars grate on the viewer as well as each other. Cinematography by the great Gabriel Figueroa is some consolation, but... if only Boetticher had been allowed to direct. --Richard T. Jameson
A wandering American mercenary planning to help the Juaristas of Mexico take a French garrison at Chihuahua kills three men trying to rape a nun. But she is not all she seems and reveals a hatred for the Juaristas and a penchant for cigars liquor and swearing. A romance develops and the mercenary discovers the nun is really a prostitute! A violent climax comes with the storming of the well-protected fort.
Set in Mexico a nun called Sara is rescued from three cowboys by Hogan (Clint Eastwood) who is on his way to do some reconnaissance for a future mission to capture a French fort. The French are chasing Sara but not for the reasons she tells Hogan so he decides to help her in return for information about the fort defences. Inevitably the two become good friends but Sara has a secret..
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