Bezenby Scott (Gemma) isn't yer usual Western hero. He's literally the son of a whore, he owns a stubborn mule, not a horse, and his gun is made of wood! Worse still, the people of the town of Clifton treat him like the crap he has to slop out every day (that's right, he's the town's sanitation guy!). The only guy who treats him well is the guy who owns the stable he sleeps in. Then one day a guy called Talby (Van Cleef) shows up, and he's all attitude. Looks like he's an old gunslinger with a beef regarding the more established gentleman of the town, and he's also taken Scott in as an apprentice. Scott turns out to be insanely fast with a gun, so Talby starts giving him lessons in being a gunslinger, the second of which is 'trust nobody' which results in Talby robbing Scott and leaving him in the desert.Is Talby an elderly muse helping out a downtrodden guy or is he a murderous monster out to settle down before someone plugs him and is only using Scott as protection? As Scott turns from downtrodden guy to feared gunslinger, it's clear that Talby is a murderous monster (especially when he flat out murders a guy). Scott starts developing loyalty problems as his new employer and his old employer start having conflicting views on how the town of Clifton should be run.Just like other 'young gunslinger and mentor' films (Death Rides a Horse, starring Lee Van Cleef, For A Few Dollars More, with Cleef, Beyond The LAw, with Van Lee Cleef, The Grand Duel, with DJ Cleef Lee Van), this one concentrates a lot on the relationship between master and apprentice, but this one has a more sinister tone as you're not sure if Gemma is going to become a victim of Cleef's power grab or not.There's a lot to this film too. There's a vengeful barber, and an awesome duel between Van Cleef and a hired killer where they ride towards each other and have to load a musket rifle before firing and a musical number! Gorgeous looking too. Before watching this and The Price of Power I'd only watched Tonino Valeri's My Dear Killer, a so-so Giallo, but his Westerns are really strong.And well done Gemma, another fine film

christopher-underwood Really good, from the languorous, elegiac opening to the full throttle finish, I enjoyed it all. I note that IMDb shows a running time of 95 minutes whilst my new Arrow DVD runs nearer 115. Can that be so, 20 minutes cut from the previous print? It is just possible for there is a surprisingly large amount of time given to introduction of the characters and the town so that we might become totally involved. Goodness knows what anyone would make of much of this film without the precious opening ten minutes where Giuliano Gemma is introduced to us, literally as a sh*t shoveler before coming under the wing of the majestic Lee van Cleef. The famous Almeria set and surrounds plays its part well too and whilst the tale is fairly simple (revenge!) it is so well told and whilst the opening scenes seem to show a ghost town by the end we have seen it teeming with folks from all around. A fine film with much violence.

tomgillespie2002 Lee Van Cleef has always been an unsung hero. Although an instantly recognisable face with those cat-like eyes and chiselled cheekbones, there will be few casual film-goers who will be able to name many films of his outside of For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966). In Day of Anger, he may not take the lead role, but his Frank Talby, the dangerous yet charismatic gunfighter who wanders into town one day, steals the screen and your attention thanks to Van Cleef's formidable presence, proving that he was one of cinema's greatest character actors.In the small town of Clifton, bastard-born street sweeper Scott Mary (Euro-western legend Giuliano Gemma) is ridiculed and bullied due to his social status. When Frank Talby strolls into Clifton on the back of his horse, he sides with Scott, and ends up shooting a man in his defence. When Frank leaves, Scott follows in the hope of being taught how to be a great gunfighter. Frank agrees, but has some brutal lessons to teach him. But they find themselves returning to Clifton in the search of money owed to Frank by Wild Jack (Once Upon a Time in the West's (1968) Al Mulock), where Frank hopes to deal some swift justice and make a mark of his own.A protégé of Sergio Leone, this was director Tonino Valerri's second movie in the chair, and he certainly knows how to shoot a western. It doesn't share the extreme close-up's of Leone's work, but builds it's fair share of tension, climaxing in an inevitable yet thrilling climax between teacher and student. The film is superbly filmed, backed by a ridiculously catchy score by Riz Ortolani from which the title song was used in Django Unchained (2012). But the film's biggest boast is in the performances of Van Cleef and Gemma, the former proving he can play as good an anti-hero as any of his peers, and the latter convincing throughout his massive character shift. Highly recommended.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com

Mario Pio "I giorni dell'ira" is a very nice western, sometimes more american then italian. Despite from some perennial charachterizations about spags, you can find somewhere a little taste of Dmitrik's "Warlock", maybe because this is an urban western. The peculiarity is that is a pacifist western, where you find a town that doesn't desire the use of arms but is very racist to Scott Mary. The arrival of Frank Talby demoster that it was a fake peace. In a little time, Talby-devil demonster that any gun can play. And you can see the transformation of a quiet man (but with gun in his heart) in a furious man of revenge, that finds a father in the old gunman. At the end Mary understand that the law of Talby (wich is the law of west) can't go on. So father and son meets theirself in a duel. Valerii's direction is good, and there is no only the Leone lesson. Actors are in role and secondary charachters are discreet. Only Gemma is a problem for me but is not very miscast; he have the face of a good boy, unlucky, that, for an instant, meets a change of fate.