title: The Stranger Returns
text: # The Stranger Returns
  
  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-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".
  
  ## 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."
  
  