The Mercenary
The Mercenary is a 1968 film from Spain and Italy, directed by Sergio Corbucci, running 107 minutes. reelscum files it under spaghetti western.
- Year
- 1968 · 1960s films
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Director
- Sergio Corbucci
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- known (29/100)
- Also known as
- A Professional Gun · Revenge Of A Gunfighter
Defined in the glossary: Spaghetti western
Corbucci's Zapata western. A Polish gun-for-hire, a peasant revolutionary, and Jack Palance in a frock.
Sergio Corbucci's rousing Zapata western, in which a cynical Polish mercenary is hired to protect a Mexican mine and ends up entangled with a peasant who becomes a revolutionary. Franco Nero and Tony Musante play the mismatched pair, and Jack Palance is a memorably foppish, flower-loving villain.
Morricone and Bruno Nicolai provide one of the great spaghetti scores. It balances real political content with pure entertainment better than almost any film in the cycle, and the bullring finale is superb. One of Corbucci's most purely enjoyable films.
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