{{short description|1967 film}} {{Infobox film | name = The Stranger Returns | image = Stranger_Returns_Poster.jpg | caption = US film poster | director = Luigi Vanzi | screenplay = Roberto Infascelli<br>{{small|(as Bob Enescelle Jr.)}}<br>Jone Mang | story = Tony Anthony | starring = Tony Anthony<br>Dan Vadis | music = Stelvio Cipriani | cinematography = Marcello Masciocchi | editing = Renzo Lucidi | producer = Allen Klein<br>Roberto Infascelli<br>Massimo Gualdi | distributor = Generalcine {{small|(Italy)}}<br>Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer {{small|(US)}} | released = {{Film date|1967|08|17|Italy|1968|08||US|df=y}} | studio = Compagnia Generale Cinematografica<br>Primex Italiana<br>Juventus Film<br>Reverse Producers Corp. | runtime = 90 minutes | country = Italy<br>West Germany<br>United States | language = Italian<br>English | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Stranger Returns''''' (Italian: ''Un uomo, un cavallo, una pistola'', lit. ''A Man, a Horse, a Gun'') also known as '''''Shoot First... Laugh Last!''''', is a 1967 Italian-West German-American Spaghetti Western film directed by Luigi Vanzi. It is a sequel to ''A Stranger in Town''.
The film is the second in a series of four western films starring Tony Anthony as "The Stranger".<ref name=jdg>{{cite book|last=Marco Giusti|title=Dizionario del western all'italiana|year=2007|publisher=Mondadori, 2007|isbn=978-88-04-57277-0|pages=157–158}}</ref>
==Cast== * Tony Anthony - The Stranger * Dan Vadis - En Plein * Daniele Vargas - Good Jim * Marco Guglielmi - The Preacher * Jill Banner - Caroline * Marina Berti - Ethel * Raf Baldassarre - Chrysler * Mario Novelli (as Anthony Freeman): Austin * Renato Mambor: Alvarez * Ettore Manni: Lieutenant George Stafford * Mario Dionisi: El Plein Henchman * Fred Coplan: El Plein Henchman
==Reception== Paul Mavis, of DVDTalk, reviewing the Warner Archive Collection 2015 DVD release of ''The Stranger Collection'', wrote, "While they're not in the league of Leone (what is?), Anthony's grimy, sneaky little punk killer is an intriguing addition to the genre. Tony Anthony did some very interesting things with the spaghetti Western genre, including, perhaps, presaging the ''Trinity'' movies, while certainly "inventing" the West-meets-East subgenre."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Paul Mavis|title=The Stranger Trilogy (Warner Archive Collection: A Stranger in Town, The Stranger Returns, The Silent Stranger)|url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/68546/stranger-trilogy-warner-archive-collection-a-stranger-in-town-the-stranger-returns-the-silent-stranger-the/|access-date=31 October 2015|work=DVDTalk|date=May 6, 2015}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|0063747}}
{{The Stranger}} {{Tony Anthony filmography}} {{Films directed by Luigi Vanzi}}
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