Four of the Apocalypse

Four of the Apocalypse
Original Italian theatrical poster
Directed by	Lucio Fulci
Produced by	Edmondo Amati (uncredited)
Screenplay by	Ennio de Concini
Based on	"The Luck of Roaring Camp" and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Brett Harte
Starring	Fabio Testi Lynne Frederick Michael J. Pollard Harry Baird Adolfo Lastretti Tomas Milian
Narrated by	Edward Mannix
Music by	Franco Bixio Fabio Frizzi Vince Tempera
Cinematography	Sergio Salvati
Edited by	Ornella Micheli
Production company	Coralta Cinematografica
Distributed by	Cineriz (Italy) Blue Underground (US)
Release date	12 August 1975
Running time	104 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian English

Four of the Apocalypse (Italian: I quattro dell'apocalisse) is a 1975 Italian spaghetti western film directed by Lucio Fulci and starring Fabio Testi, Tomas Milian and Michael J. Pollard. It is based on two stories by western writer Bret Harte, "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat". It was filmed in Spain, Italy and Austria.

Set in the year 1873, professional gambler Stubby Preston arrives in the wild west town of Salt Flats, Utah with plans to work the local casino but is arrested by the sheriff the moment he steps foot off the stagecoach. What Stubby doesn't know is that a group of locals have planned a vigilante attack on the casino that night, which the sheriff plans to turn a blind eye to. The only criminals to survive are those who were in the jail when it happened: Stubby, a pregnant prostitute named Bunny, a disturbed but gentle black man named Bud, and an alcoholic named Clem.

In the morning the sheriff sees the four safely out of the town and gives them a wagon and horses in exchange for their remaining money and all of Stubby's possessions. The four set out for the next town and spend their first night with a group of traveling Amish evangelists, whose patriarch mistakes the pregnant Bunny as Stubby's wife. The four play along and Stubby and Bunny continue to pretend they are married in order to avoid unnecessary attention. After splitting from the evangelists the four hide themselves just in time from a group of bandits.

Later that day, they are approached by a Mexican gunman named Chaco who offers to protect and hunt for the group. They accept and for a while things go well, until Chaco saves the group from lawmen and then proceeds to mercilessly torture the surviving lawman to everyone's disgust. Despite this the group accepts the gift of peyote buttons which they all take by the campfire. In the morning they all awaken to being tied. Chaco taunts and beats the men, rapes Bunny, shoots Clem in the leg and leaves them for dead. Stubby, Bunny and Bud manage to put Clem on a stretcher and quietly witness Chaco meet up with his bandit compatriots. Together the bandits decimate the evangelists that the four had met earlier.