A Bullet for the General

A Bullet for the General
US film poster
Directed by	Damiano Damiani
Produced by	Bianco Manini
Screenplay by	Salvatore Laurani Franco Solinas
Story by	Salvatore Laurani
Starring	Gian Maria Volontè Klaus Kinski Martine Beswick Lou Castel Jaime Fernández
Music by	Luis Bacalov Music Supervisor: Ennio Morricone
Cinematography	Antonio Secchi
Edited by	Renato Cinquini
Production company	M. C. M.
Distributed by	M. C. M. (Italy) AVCO Embassy Pictures (US) Warner-Pathé (UK)
Release date	January 13, 1967
Running time	118 minutes (Italy) 115 minutes (US)
Country	Italy
Language	Italian Spanish English

A Bullet for the General (Spanish: Quién sabe?), also known by its international title El Chucho Quién Sabe?, is a 1967 Italian Zapata Western film directed by Damiano Damiani, written by Salvatore Laurani and Franco Solinas, and starring Gian Maria Volontè, Lou Castel, Klaus Kinski and Martine Beswick. The film tells the story of El Chuncho, a bandit, and Bill Tate (or El Niňo), who is a counter-revolutionary in Mexico. Chuncho soon learns that social revolution is more important than mere money. This is one of the more famous Zapata Westerns, a subgenre of the spaghetti western which deals with the radicalizing of bad men and bandits into revolutionaries when they are confronted with injustice. Others in this subgenre include Compañeros, The Mercenary and perhaps most famously Duck, You Sucker!

Some parts of the soundtrack, composed by Luis Enríquez Bacalov, are featured in the videogame Red Dead Revolver.

During the Mexican Revolution, a Durango-bound government munitions train is forced to stop due to the presence of a crucified army officer on the tracks. El Chuncho Munoz, a gun runner loyal to the revolutionary leader General Elías, leads his gang in an assault on the train. Lieutenant Alvaro Ferreria attempts to save the officer, but upon being fatally wounded by Chuncho, is forced to order the train to run the officer over and escape the bandits. Bill Tate, an American passenger on the train, kills the engineer and stops the train again, allowing Chuncho and his gang to kill the remaining soldiers and take their weapons. Posing as a former prisoner of the army, Tate joins the gang, and is quickly befriended by Chuncho, who nicknames him "Niño".