''Colt in the Hand of the Devil'' (, also known as ''Devil Was an Angel'' and ''An Angel with a Gun Is a Devil'') is a 1967 Italian

Spaghetti Western The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's filmmaking style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most o ...

film written and directed by

Sergio Bergonzelli Sergio Bergonzelli (25 August 1924 – 24 September 2002) was an Italian director, screenwriter, producer and actor. Biography Born in Alba, Piedmont, Alba, Cuneo, Bergonzelli graduated in philosophy, then he started working as an actor with t ...

. The theme song "The Devil Was an Angel" is performed by

Mino Reitano Beniamino "Mino" Reitano (December 7, 1944 – January 27, 2009) was an Italian singer, songwriter and actor. Reitano was born in Fiumara, a small village in Calabria. His father, an employee at the local railway station, was very passiona ...

. It was shot in

Sardinia Sardinia ( ; ; ) is the Mediterranean islands#By area, second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the Regions of Italy, twenty regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia an ...

Cast

* Bob Henry as Pat Scotty *

Marisa Solinas Marisa Anna Solinas (30 May 1939 – 12 February 2019), best known as Marisa Solinas, was an Italian actress and singer. Life Born in Genoa to a Sardinian father and a Tuscan mother from Garfagnana. In her teen years, she dreamed about becomi ...

as Maya * George Wang as El Condor/Capataz * Lucretia Love as Jane * Gerardo Rossi as Tenente Dick Carson *

Luciano Catenacci Luciano Catenacci (13 April 1933 – 4 October 1990) was an Italian actor and Unit production manager, production manager who worked on mainly Italian produced films during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Life and career Born in Rome, Catenac ...

as El Loco * Luciano Benetti as Cpt. McDonald

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* Spanish Western (genre) films Spaghetti Western films 1967 Western (genre) films 1967 films Films directed by Sergio Bergonzelli Films with screenplays by Sergio Bergonzelli 1960s Italian films {{1960s-Western-film-stub