A Mexican bandit named Espartero (Jose Manuel Martin) and an officer named Jefferson (Jose Badalo) joined forces to rip off the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Now Jefferson is a bank owner, and Espartero threatens to share information about that past if Jefferson doesn’t cooperate in allowing his bank to be robbed.
Figuring that’s going to happen anyway, Jefferson decides to have his own bank robbed first. And he’ll have some of his men dress up as Mexicans to pull the job, so that Espartero and his band of bandits will get the blame.
Things go a bit awry when an overachieving bank teller named Bill Ross gets the drop on the bandits. Ah, but Jefferson fixes that problem by shooting him in the back, then having all the other customers killed so they can’t be witnesses to the first murder.
Into town rides a bespectacled man named Stan (Richard Harrison). He has an interest in the bank holdup , too, partly because of his connection to Bill Ross.
So he has no qualms about tracking down a bandit named Miguel for the $10,000 reward Jefferson is offering.
But it doesn’t take him long to figure out that Espartero and his gang don’t have the bank loot. And that the nine coffins he hopes to fill belong to Jefferson and his band of henchmen. Getting those coffin filled might be tricky.
Richard Harrison as Stan, determined to find those responsible for Bill Ross’s death in One After Another (1968)
Jose Bodalo as Jefferson, the banker who has his own bank robbed in One After Another (1968)
Review:
Richard Harrison appeared in 16 Spaghetti Westerns; the first couple were merely Hollywood imitations with a touch of Italian flavor. This is a well-done film much more in the Spaghetti style.
There are double crosses at every turn. There’s plenty of violence. One of Esparatero’s men is killed and dragged through fire so he can be passed off as someone else. Another of his men is tortured with a red hot iron until he talks. Stan straps a stick of dynamite to one man’s back, then fires at it, blowing him to bits.
He also plays games with coffins, having them delivered to Jefferson’s men to let them know they’re next on his hit list. Add a snappy score and a neat ending with several more twists, and this is probably one of Harrison’s best Spaghetti outings.
For female leads, we have Pamela Tudor as Sabine, a woman saloon owner who falls for Stan even though he doesn’t like her brand of whiskey; and Jolanda Modio as Tina, who’s scarred by Espartero after he catches her cheating and vows vengeance against him as a result.
Jose Manuel Martin as Espartero, the Mexican bandit terrorizing the countryside in One After Another (1968)
Pamela Tudor as Sabine, the saloon owner who takes a liking to Sam in One After Another (1968)
Directed by:
Nick Nostro (as Nick Howard)
Cast:
Richard Harrison … Stan
Pamela Tudor … Sabine
Paolo Gozlino … Glenn
Jose Bodalo … Jefferson
Jose Manuel Martin … Espartero
Jolanda Modio … Tina
Jose Jaspe … Pablo
Hugo Blanco … Miguel
Also with: Fortunato Arena, Luis Barboo, Dario Micheli, Mirella Pompili, Goffredo Unger, Emilio Messina, Roberto Messina, Gilberto Galimberti
aka:
Day After Tomorrow
Uno dopo l’altro
Adios caballero
Score:
Fred Bongusto and Berto Pisano
Title song:
“Maybe One, Maybe Nine”
performed by Fred Bongusto
Paolo Gozlino (Paul Stevens) as Glenn, Jefferson’s henchman in One After Another (1968)
Hugo Blanco as Miguel in One After Another (1968)
Memorable lines:
Sabine: “Want me to fix you a room here? There are some beds available?”
Stan: “Are your beds any better than your whiskey?”
Tina: “You know how much I love you, don’t you Pedro?”
Pedro: “No. To me it means nothing. I want your body next to mine. And, for now, that’s all that matters.”
Jefferson: “Somebody has to kill those dogs (Mexicans suspected of robbing the bank). Stan, we’re asking you.”
Undertaker: “Sir, may I talk to you.”
Stan: “If you want to measure me for a coffin, you’re way too early.”
Coffin maker: “Town’s full of cowards. That’s why business is so slow.”
Jefferson’s henchman, taking off Stan’s glasses: “This way, you won’t see the punches coming. You’ll just feel ’em.”
Undertaker, after Stan blows up one of his victims: “Hope he doesn’t blow the next one up. It’ll take me a month to find the pieces.”
Stan: “Alright, Sabine. I never argue with a lady holding a rifle.”
Jolanda Modio as Tina, the woman who cheats on bandit leader Espartero in One After Another (1968)
Maria Saavedra as Thelma in One After Another (1968)
Trivia
Early in the film, Richard Harrison’s character has his glasses broken in a fistfight. “He’s blind now,” one of his assailants proclaims. Not really. He opens his jacket to review a long row of spare glasses, a la Col. Mortimer and his row of guns in “For a Few Dollars More.”
Nick Nostro directed just 10 films, including two Spaghetti Westerns. The other was “Dollar of Fire” (1966). He made one more film before going into business management.
Jose Canalejas as Frank in One After Another (1968)
Jose Jaspe as Pablo, Stan’s informant, in One After Another (1968)
Bank teller Bill Ross, the man whose death sparks all the double crossing in One After Another (1968)
Eugenio Galadini as the undertaker who welcomes Stan’s arrival in One After Another (1968)
Pamela Tudor as Sabine, fretting about Sam’s safety in One After Another (1968)
Richard Harrison as Stan, sporting the bruises from an encounter with Ferguson’s men in One After Another (1968)
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