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Ringo Starr played Peter Sellers' adoptive son in the Magic Christian, a rather inconsistent movie with cameos from John Cleese, Christopher Lee, Raquel Welch.
Ringo Starr lamely played a blue-eyed Mexican bandit-with-a-good-heart-who-dies-in-the-end-increasing-his-brother's-desire-to-annihilate-the-hero in Il Pistolero Cieco (Blindman), the most outrageous western I can think of.
Now what was that?
First, Clint Eastwood mentioned that he had thought of Yojimbo reading his first Sergio Leone script. So my guess is that Fernandino Baldi (director) and Tony Anthony (screenplay, producer, lead actor!!!) had Zatoichi (座頭市) in mind.
Though the credits indicate that there was a screenplay, I believe they threw it away early in the shooting.
The blind hero has received the charge of conveying 50 (more?) women to their future husbands. But his cattle is stolen before the movie starts. Yes, cattle, that's how the ladies are treated. Even blind, the hero is supposed to be a gifted gunman. I guess that's why he had noone with him to protect the girls. Don't get me wrong, in spite of his problem, he's quite an ace with a rifle. During the movie he actually kills a bundle of pistol-shooting enemies surrounding him in broad daylight.
At one point he is tied up to a pole, and a mean woman tries to kill him. He manages to wrap his thighs around her neck as she tries to bite and tear his crotch. Luckily for the hero, she's choked dead before she reaches what she was aiming at. And so on.
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