The Tomas Milian Collection
While American stars like Clint Eastwood played the quiet, stoic gunfighter, Cuban-born actor Tomas Milian brought a theatrical, animalistic energy to the Italian Western. He created some of the genre's most beloved and enduring characters, most notably the knife-throwing peasant thief Cuchillo in Sergio Sollima's films.
Milian was a trained Method actor who studied under Lee Strasberg, and he brought that intensity to characters that ranged from desperate outlaws and revolutionary leaders to eccentric comedic figures. This list collects his essential Spaghetti Westerns, tracing his evolution from gritty political anti-heroes to slapstick comedic icons.

An eccentric bounty hunter named Providence captures and sets free a criminal in order to collect the same bounty over and over again in different states, until they discover that a local sheriff is up to something crooked.
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The Ugly Ones
1966Escaped outlaw Jose Gomez returns to his home town pursued by bounty killer Luke Chilson. The towns people protect Gomez, unaware, at first, that he is now a changed and dangerous man.
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The White, the Yellow, and the Black (Italian: Il bianco, il giallo, il nero, also known as Shoot First… Ask Questions Later) is a 1975 Spaghetti Western comedy film. It is the last spaghetti western directed by Sergio Corbucci. Differently from his previous western films, this is openly parodic.
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A Mexican outlaw known as "The Stranger" is part of a band of thieves that steal a cargo of gold from a stagecoach. However, the Americans in the band betray him, and shoot all the Mexicans. The Stranger is not completely dead though, and crawls his way out of his shallow grave, continuing his pursuit of the gold, and exacting a bloody vengeance.
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Run, Man, Run
1968The legendary Tomas Milian stars as Cuchillo, a knife-throwing thief on the run from murderous bandits, sadistic American agents, his hot-blooded fiancée and a sheriff turned bounty hunter, all of whom are gunning for a hidden fortune in gold that could finance the Mexican Revolution.
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Compañeros
1970Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla Basco, but a former business partner of Yolaf's- John 'The Wooden Hand', has other ideas.
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Four petty criminals, three men and a woman, wander through the trackless terrain of the Wild West Utah and are hounded by a sadistic bandit.
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Tepepa
1969The Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro.
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Face to Face
1967History Professor Brad Fletcher heads west for his health, but falls in with Solomon Bennett's outlaw gang. Fascinated by their way of life, Fletcher finally takes over the gang, leading with a new 'efficient' ruthlessness.
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The Big Gundown
1967Unofficial lawman John Corbett hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.
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