The Road to Fort Alamo

Not a spaghetti western per se, as it's much closer to the American tradition. Think Ford's She Wore A Yellow Ribbon as envisioned as a cheap B-movie with gothic overtones. It's an entirely routine affair that merely confirms that Bava generally worked better on sound stages than he did on location with the cave sequences being the obvious aesthetic highlight. The action scenes are passable but nothing any competent B-western director of the period couldn't have done, and the pacing is off.

This early spaghetti western from Horror auteur Mario Bava is closer to traditional American westerns than it's Italian counterparts. Bava's trademark style in mostly absent but I guess you *could* say that the nighttime scenes have a stylized Bava-feel. There's nothing particularly wrong with the film, and atleast it's better than Bava's later buddy spaghetti Roy Colt and Winchester Jack, but it's not that special either and only worth it for Bava completists.

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