God s Gun (also known as Diamante Lobo) is a 1976 released Italian-Israeli Spaghetti Western filmed 1975 in Israel as directed by Gianfranco Parolini (credited as Frank Kramer) and starring Lee Van Cleef, Jack Palance, Leif Garrett and Sybil Danning. Palance plays the head of a malicious group of bandits and Van Cleef plays a double-role of brothers: a priest and a reformed gunfighter.

Leif Garrett plays the main character in the film as Johnny, a fatherless kid who brings the reformed gunfighter to town to avenge his brother s murder.

Synopsis

One day Sam Clayton (Jack Palance) and his gang arrive in the small town of Juno City where Father John (Lee Van Cleef) is the priest of the local church. The gang wreak havoc in town, raping a woman and knifing a man in the back. They leave town, only to be caught by the fearless but unarmed Father John. After that, the gang member responsible for the murder is broken out of jail.

Vowing revenge, the gang ambushes and guns Father John down on the steps of his church, and then take over the town while waiting for the arrival of the next stagecoach. However, Johnny O Hara (Leif Garrett), a local boy, manages to escape with a couple of their horses and rides off to Mexico in the hope of finding the priest s gunfighter twin brother (also Van Cleef). They meet and set off back across the border to clean up the town.

Meanwhile, Sam Clayton discovers that he is Johnny s father. Also, it is revealed that some fifteen years earlier, during the American Civil War, Jenny O Hara (Sybil Danning) had been one of Clayton s victims, adding to the mystery of Johnny s paternity.

Cast

• Lee Van Cleef as Father John / Lewis
• Jack Palance as Sam Clayton
• Richard Boone as The Sheriff
• Sybil Danning as Jenny
• Leif Garrett as Johnny
• Robert Lipton as Jess Clayton
• Cody Palance as Zeke Clayton
• Ian Sander as Red Clayton
• Pnina Rosenblum as Chesty
• Zila Carni as Juanita Lewis
• Heinz Bernard as Judge Barrett
• Didi Lukov as Rip
• Ricardo David as Angel George
• Chin Chin as Willy
• Rafi Ben Ami as Mortimer

Production

Richard Boone walked off the film before it was completed leaving his role to be dubbed by another actor. In an interview with Cleveland Amory in Israel in May 1976, Boone told Amory: I m starring in the worst picture ever made. The producer is an Israeli and the director is Italian, and they don t speak. Fortunately it doesn t matter, because the director is deaf in both ears.

Home media

God s Gun was released on Blu-ray Disc in the Region A format by Kino Lorber on February 8, 2022.

Year	1976
RuntimeMins	94
RuntimeStr	1h 34min
Plot	A priest and his twin brother take turns defending a small town from the vicious Clayton gang.
Directors	Gianfranco Parolini
Writers	John Fonseca, Gianfranco Parolini
Stars	Lee Van Cleef, Jack Palance, Richard Boone
Produced by	Yoram Globus,Menahem Golan
Music by	Sante Maria Romitelli
Cinematography by	Sandro Mancori
Film Editing by	Manlio Camastro
Art Direction by	Claudio De Santis
Makeup Department	Hanna Chalfon,Blanche Shuler
Production Management	Rafi Adar,Haim Manor
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director	Itschak Ben Zur,Leonard Natan,Timna Ranon
Art Department	Ariel Roshko
Sound Department	Wally Milner,Simcha Silberstein
Special Effects by	Gianni D Andrea
Camera and Electrical Department	Sami Gratushka,Yoni Hamenachem,Samuel Levi,Aldo Marchiori,Mario Sbrenna,Eitan Zur
Costume and Wardrobe Department	Edit Burstein,Sara Weiner
Editorial Department	Orlando Signorelli
Location Management	Ovadia Mayberg
Script and Continuity Department	Melady Preece
Additional Crew	Naomi Mayberg,Beni Uzan,Mimmo Uzan,Ralph Zucker,Roberto Bertea,Oreste Lionello,Mario Maranzana,Renato Turi,Roberto Villa
Genres	Western
Companies	Dunamis Cinematografica, Rovi
Countries	Italy, Israel
Languages	Italian
ContentRating	R
ImDbRating	4.9
ImDbRatingVotes	1436
Keywords	spaghetti western,italo western,female stockinged legs,brother brother relationship,shootout in a church