Sabata - Watch Order: Release Order
The Sabata trilogy represents the playful excess and anti-heroic style of late-period Spaghetti Westerns, following the enigmatic gunslinger Sabata through three standalone adventures. Each film features elaborate stunts, trick weapons, and Sabata's intervention in corrupt frontier schemes, but with minimal narrative continuity between entries.
The series has a unique production history: while Lee Van Cleef established the character in the first and third films, Yul Brynner plays Sabata in the middle entry - originally a different film called Indio Black that was retrofitted as a Sabata sequel after the first film's success. Despite this unusual recasting, the trilogy maintains thematic consistency with its focus on stylized action and eccentric characters.
Note that numerous unofficial films exploited the Sabata name over the years, but only these three Gianfranco Parolini-directed entries are considered the canonical series.
Sabata
Several pillars of society have robbed an Army safe containing $100,000 so they can buy the land upon which the coming railroad will be built. But they haven't reckoned on the presence of the master gunslinger, Sabata.
Adiós, Sabata
Set in Mexico under the rule of Emperor Maximilian I, Sabata is hired by the guerrilla leader Señor Ocaño to steal a wagonload of gold from the Austrian army. However, when Sabata and his partners Escudo and Ballantine obtain the wagon, they find it is not full of gold but of sand, and that the gold was taken by Austrian Colonel Skimmel. So Sabata plans to steal back the gold.
Return of Sabata
Master gunslinger Sabata arrives in Hobsonville, a town completely owned by McIntock, a robber baron who is taxing the inhabitants for the cost of future improvements to the town. Or that's what McIntock says he'll do with the money...
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