History Film / DeathRidesAHorse

[[caption-width-right:325:When You've Waited Fifteen Years To Find A Man... It's A Shame You Can Only Kill Him Once!]]

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/death_rides_a_horse_2.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:When You've Waited Fifteen Years To Find A Man... It's A Shame You Can Only Kill Him Once!]]

* DistinguishingMark: Burt Cavanaugh, one of Bill's targets, has a tattoo of four aces on his chest. Another one, Pedro, has a scar near his eye.

* OneBulletLeft: Bill has tracked down and killed the men who murdered his family when he was a child, except for one, who turns out to be his mentor, now out of bullets. The hero gives him one bullet, having a single bullet left in his own revolver. However the man just rides off in a PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou trope, and the hero's bullet kills another outlaw who'd been about to shoot him.

* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: When Bill discovers that Ryan was one of the gang responsible for the murder of his family, he wants to kill him. Ryan tells him that they need to deal with Walcott and his gang first but, if they are both still alive after that, he will willingly allow Bill to kill him.

''Death Rides a Horse'' is a 1967 SpaghettiWestern film directed by Giulio Petroni, starring Creator/LeeVanCleef and John Phillip Law.

When Bill Meceita (Law) was a young lad, he watched his mother and sister get raped and murdered by a gang of outlaws. Now, fifteen years later, he has become an expert gunfighter and is out to find the ones who did it. At the same time, an older man named Ryan (Van Cleef) has just gotten out of jail for a robbery the same gang committed. Both men meet up, and go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the gang that wronged them. However, Ryan has a secret that threatens to tear the duo apart.

''Death Rides a Horse'' is a 1967 SpaghettiWestern film starring John Phillip Law and Creator/LeeVanCleef.

When Bill Meceita was a young lad, he watched his mother and sister be raped and murdered by an a gang of outlaws. Now, fifteen years later, Bill has become an expert gunfighter and is out to find the ones who did it. At the same time, an older man named Ryan has just gotten out of jail for a robbery the same gang committed. Both men meet up, and go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge agains the gang that wronged them. However, Ryan has a secret that threatens to tear the duo apart.

[[quoteright:183:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/death_rides_a_horse.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:183:When You've Waited Fifteen Years To Find A Man... It's A Shame You Can Only Kill Him Once!]]

* BlastingItOutOfTheHands: One of Cavanaugh's bouncers shoots the glass out of the hand of the barred patron Bill brings into the saloon. Bill returns the favour by shooting the gun out of his hand.

* DramaticGuncock: Two of the guards in the opening scene dramatically cock their lever-action Winchesters before they go out to investigate the noises: although all this would do is eject an unfired shell from the rifle.

* {{Blackmail}}: Ryan's initial revenge plan is to blackmail the men who framed him for $15,000.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Ray was a member of Walcott's gang before being double-crossed. However, he didn't participate in any of their rapes and murders, and assists Bill in stopping them when he gets out of prison. Bill lets him live due to this fact.]]

* OneBulletLeft: Bill has tracked down and killed the men who murdered his family when he was a child, except for one, who turns out to be his mentor, now out of bullets. The hero gives him one bullet, having a single bullet left in his own revolver. However the man just rides off in a PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfie You trope, and the hero's bullet kills another outlaw who'd been about to shoot him.

* VigilanteMan: Bill and Ray go vigilante to take down Walcott's gang. In fact, Bill actively refuses to become a sheriff's deputy in order to not be shackled by due process.

* BestServedCold: Bill trains for 15 years before going after his family's killers. Ray waits the same amount of time to go after the gang for framing him because that's his prison sentence.

* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: One of the outlaws wears a skull pendant around his neck. [[spoiler:It turns out that one was Ryan.]]

'''''Death Rides a Horse''''' is a 1967 SpaghettiWestern film starring John Phillip Law and Creator/LeeVanCleef.

When Bill Maceita was a young lad, he watched his mother and sister be raped and murdered by an a gang of outlaws. Now, fifteen years later, Bill has become an expert gunfighter and is out to find the ones who did it. At the same time, an older man named Ryan has just gotten out of jail for a robbery the same gang committed. Both men meet up, and go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge agains the gang that wronged them. However, Ryan has a secret that threatens to tear the duo apart.