Underplayed Gems

God's Gun (1976)

God's Gun poster
Original title
Diamante Lobo
Directed by
Gianfranco Parolini
Genre
Spaghetti Western
Country
Israel, Italy
Runtime
1h 37m
Rated
R
Rating
5.1 of 10 from 38 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A priest is murdered by a gang leader. The priest's brother, a reformed gunfighter, is brought to town by a fatherless boy to seek revenge. The gunfighter confronts the criminals.

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What happens

God's Gun, also known as Diamante Lobo, is a 1976 Italian-Israeli Spaghetti Western cowritten and directed by Gianfranco Parolini (credited as Frank Kramer) and starring Lee Van Cleef, Jack Palance, Leif Garrett, Richard Boone and Sybil Danning. Palance plays the head of a vicious group of bandits, while Van Cleef plays a double-role of brothers: a priest and a reformed gunfighter. Leif Garrett plays Johnny, a fatherless boy who brings the reformed gunfighter to town to avenge the priest's murder. It was the next-to-last Western in Van Cleef's filmography, and it's also chronologically the last Western appearance he made during his lifetime. Instead of being filmed in Italy or Spain as most Spaghetti Westerns were, God's Gun was shot in Israel and produced by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, two years before they bought Cannon films. The main cast's dialogue was dubbed: at least in the case of Lee Van Cleef and Richard Boone (who walked out of the film before the production was finished), it has been claimed in several reviews that neither actor did their own voices in post-production, and the same thing has been said of the voice of Jack Palance also. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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