At least one spaghetti western was inspired by a samurai movie. This one may have been inspired by Zatoichi, the blind swordsman.
A blind gunman helps transport fifty mailorder brides to their husbands in Texas.
Ringo Starr was hard to spot in it. The men all looked alike. I couldn't tell if he dubbed his own voice but if he did it was without the Liverpool accent.
It's all changed with the switch to video---now recording live sound is the easiest thing in the world. If you look at old books on amateur or low budget filmmaking, they give arguments for dubbing. You can hire actors (or non actors) for looks and have real actors dub their lines. You can change lines in post production and no one can tell as long as you use the same number of syllables. The director can speak to actors while filming, you can use any camera whether it's suited to live sound or not and you don't have to muffle the camera noise. You can film next to a freeway or airport, you don't have to take time for sound set-ups and you may not have to do retakes for flubbed lines. You'd have to be crazy NOT to dub.
They made interesting use of existing locations in Spain. One of the few westerns with a castle.
I couldn't follow the plot.
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