At the ranch, the doctor finally ar- rives—but only in time to declare Hillman dead. Left alone together with the corpse, Kay makes an overt pass at Nebraska, who decides to leave—in order for Carter to make his next move easily against the ranch. It isn’t long before Carter and two gunmen—Felton and Dixon—de- scend on the ranch to bully Hillman into surrendering $50,000 hidden some- where on his property. Finding Hillman dead, Carter orders his men to ransack the house until they find the cash. While Felton and Dixon are thus occu- pied, Carter tries to force himself on Kay, but she fights him off. Carter rea- sons with her to forget her romantic thoughts about Nebraska, asking her how he would feel if he ever learned that she was the daughter of Duke Kramer—“the most bloodthirsty bank robber in New Mexico”—or that Marty Hillman was actually Marty Baumann (“a murderer”) or that she herself had helped to rob banks in El Paso. The questions are left unanswered by the discovery of the stolen $50,000 in one of Marty’s boots.
Unbeknownst to them all, Nebraska
has entered the ranch house through the bedroom window and concealed himself under the sheet beside Hill- man’s corpse. He manages to shoot Felton and Dixon and has a lengthy fistfight with Carter, ending in the villain’s death. Kay is upset that Ne- braska has learned her secrets and pleads with him to overlook her past. He makes his regrets to her, and she collapses in tears. Nebraska turns the boot with the stolen cash over to the sheriff, as he arrives with some rather late-in-coming help. One of the sheriff’s men comes out
of the house, reporting four bodies— Marty’s, Carter’s, and those of the two gunmen. “It’s going to be an expensive funeral,” he says.
“Never mind,” laughs the sheriff, eyeing the boot. “We can afford it!”
Cast
Unless some roles had to be recast when the production relocated to Rome, Mario Bava had nothing to do with the casting of Ringo del Nebraska. He had worked previously with both
