(IL MERCENARIO/REVENGE OF A GUNFIGHTER/A PROFESSIONAL GUN, Sergio Corbucci, Italy/Spain 1968, 110 min., 35mm)

In 1915 Mexico, a group of revolutionaries hire a Polish gun-for-hire (spaghetti Western superstar Franco Nero), but are thwarted by a well-dressed and brutal government agent (Jack Palance). Director Corbucci, a celebrated master of the Italian Western (The Great Silence, Django), worked six times with composer Ennio Morricone. The score for The Mercenary was put to use again in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill.