The Black Glove Man. Une corde, un Colt (also known as: Cemetery Without Crosses) comes from director Robert Hossein, who also appears in the film and helped write the script with Dario Argento and Claude Desailly. The cast includes Michèle Mercier, Anne-Marie Balin, Daniele Vargas, Guido Lollobrigida, and Serge Marquand; Andre Hossein handled the music and Henri Persin was responsible for the cinematography. Following the brutal lynching of her husband at the hands of the Rogers family, Maria Caine (Mercier) turns to her brothers-in-law for assistance in getting revenge. When they prove unhelpful, she finds help elsewhere with Manuel (Hossein), a solitary gunslinger living alone near an abandoned town... The film is dedicated to Sergio Leone and features a scene that he directed; because of Argento’s involvement, it's not surprising to see Leone's influence throughout Hossein’s work. It functions as a Pasta Western, existing in the space between reality and the supernatural, with an intentionally dreamlike feel, even incorporating touches of the bizarre into its overall presentation. Conversations are used sparingly, but this doesn’t negatively impact the film’s quality, and Hossein uses black-and-white staging, slow camera movements, and well-placed sound effects. Like the dialogue, the violence is restrained; there's no excessive or graphic depiction of evil acts, and it remains consistent with the atmosphere that Hossein creates. The conventions of the genre are followed consistently, which is a good thing, while the ending has an appropriate sense of sadness. Thoughtful, dark, and full of unclear ambiguity, Cemetery Without Crosses is easily suggested to those who enjoy Euro Westerns. 8/10
On September 27, 2026
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