(LA RESA DEI CONTI, Sergio Sollima, Spain/Italy 1966, 80 min., 35mm)

Lee Van Cleef stars as a lawman with ambitions to become a senator who heads a manhunt to find the Mexican peasant (Tomas Milian) who may or may not be responsible for the murder of a child. Like the best work of Sergio Leone, Sollima’s masterwork not only makes great use of Western veteran Van Cleef, it also has a story that deftly combines action, violence, politics, and history.

Then at 8:30 p.m.

Navajo Joe

(Sergio Corbucci, Italy/Spain, 1966, 93 min., 35mm)

In his only spaghetti Western, Burt Reynolds plays an Indian who, armed with a hatchet and bow-and-arrow, relentlessly pursues the outlaw who scalped and killed his woman. The startling score by Ennio Morricone (here credited as “Leo Nichols”) features a chorus of shrieking voices and pounding surf guitar. The music was later used to great comic effect in Alexander Payne’s Election. Two films for one regular admission price.