The Stranger Returns
US film poster
Directed by	Vance Lewis
Screenplay by	Roberto Infascelli (as Bob Enescelle Jr.) Jone Mang
Story by	Tony Anthony
Produced by	Allen Klein Roberto Infascelli Massimo Gualdi
Starring	Tony Anthony Dan Vadis
Cinematography	Marcello Masciocchi
Edited by	Renzo Lucidi
Music by	Stelvio Cipriani
Production companies	Compagnia Generale Cinematografica Primex Italiana Juventus Film Reverse Producers Corp.
Distributed by	Generalcine (Italy) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (US)
Release dates	17 August 1967 (Italy) August 1968 (US)
Running time	90 minutes
Countries	Italy West Germany United States
Languages	Italian English

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".^[1]

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."^[2]