This unusual Western film, set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, features Lee Van Cleef as a bank robber whose marriage to a woman portrayed by Gina Lollobrigida doesn’t go as planned. His subsequent involvement in a plot to rob funds intended for replacing an army arsenal brings James Mason into the story later on. "Bad Man's River," made collaboratively by Italy, France and Spain in 1971, is a stra…

The cast list initially grabbed my attention; it’s unusual to see someone as sophisticated as James Mason in a western alongside Lee Van Cleef. However, Gene Martin's direction ultimately fell short of expectations. Mason appears briefly as "Montero," the man who took "Alicia" (Gina Lollobrigida) away from her train-robbing husband, “King” (Lee Van Cleef). Not only did she leave him, but she also had him committed fo…