A Stranger in Town (1967 film)

A Stranger in Town
US film poster
Directed by	Luigi Vanzi (as Vance Lewis)
Produced by	Allen Klein Roberto Infascelli Massimo Gualdi
Screenplay by	Warren Garfield Giuseppe Mangione (as John Mangione)
Starring	Tony Anthony Jolanda Modio Gia Sandri Frank Wolff
Music by	Benedetto Ghiglia
Cinematography	Marcello Masciocchi
Edited by	Mario Lucidi
Production company	Primex Italiana Taka Production Inc.
Distributed by	Titanus (Italy) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (US)
Release date	13 January 1967 (Italy) 24 April 1968 (US)
Running time	86 minutes
Country	Italy United States
Language	Italian English
Box office	$1,500,000 (US/ Canada)

A Stranger in Town (Italian: Un dollaro tra i denti, lit. "A dollar between the teeth"), released in the UK as For a Dollar in the Teeth, is a 1967 Italian-American Spaghetti Western film directed by Luigi Vanzi.

The film is the first in a series of four western films starring Tony Anthony as "The Stranger". Released by MGM, it was a surprise box office hit in international markets.

A blanket-clad gunfighter, the Stranger, rides into a largely deserted Mexican village, where he encounters Chica, a young widow with a baby son, and Paco, a bartender who orders him at knife-point to leave. After killing Paco with a bottle, he witnesses a massacre of Captain Cordoba's Mexican Army troops by the bandit chief Aguilar and his gang, who steal the soldiers' uniforms and a machine gun. Dressed in a Union Army uniform, the Stranger greets Aguilar and his dominatrix right-hand woman, Maria "Maruka" Pilar, and informs them that an attachment of Union soldiers, led by Captain George Stafford, will soon be arriving to deliver two bags of gold coins to Captain Cordoba's troops. In return for identifying Aguilar as Cordoba to Stafford, the Stranger requests a share of the gold. The plan succeeds, despite Stafford's scepticism.

Preparing to leave, the Stranger demands a half-share of the gold from Aguilar, who refuses, giving him only a single coin for his troubles. The Stranger creates a diversion by shooting the candles of the saloon, and steals the gold. Despite holding off Aguilar's men and escaping, he is forced to surrender the gold when they take Chica hostage. The Stranger later returns to recapture the gold, but he is ambushed and beaten by Aguilar's men, before being left to the attentions of Maruka, who becomes increasingly aroused by him. Eventually killing her by bashing her head against a stone floor, the Stranger distracts Aguilar and the gang by setting off an explosion, allowing him to steal the gold and save Chica, who has been abused by Aguilar.