Gone with the West

8/25/2019

***Chaotic oddity satirizes the Western*** When an innocent convict (James Caan) is released from prison in the Southwest he teams-up with an AmerIndian woman (Stefanie Powers) to exact vengeance on a town of sadistic revelers in the desert. Aldo Ray plays the sinister town boss, Robert Walker Jr. the weary sheriff and Sammy Davis Jr. a black-clad gunslinger. “Gone with the West” has a strange history: It was actually shot in 1969 under the working title “Man without Mercy,” but not released until 1974-1975. This explains how scenes from the movie were available for use in the theater sequence of “Messiah of Evil” (1973). A reedited version with new music and additional scenes (a new intro & conclusion set in modern times) was released in the late 70s under the name “Little Moon an