Cohen wrote a script they were happy with, and Jim Brown and Lee Van Cleef were cast. Cohen says the studio decided to make the movie, built a fort and town in Almeria, Spain, then decided they disliked the script they paid Cohen to travel to Spain and write a new film around the existing sets. The studio had recently made a film called Daddy's Gone A-Hunting based on a script by Larry Cohen. Filming was pushed back in April 1969 National General announced the movie as part of a slate of 13 films they would make, costing $35 million in all. The film was financed by National General, who in October 1968 announced they had purchased Steve Carabatsos' original script and would make the film the following March. The fortress is commanded by the sadistic Chavez, whose mistress, Claudine, Luke becomes attracted to the moment he sees her. In 1860s Mexico, Luke, an escaped convict, and Jaroo, a loner gold prospector who is not very bright, team up with a band of Apache Indians to capture a heavily armed fortress for the thousands of gold bars said to be stored within.
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