Featuring a Western icon and a 1970s martial arts star, The Stranger and the Gunfighter served as a unique and memorable blend of two different genres. Released in 1976, The Stranger and the Gunfighter was a highly unusual film for Lee Van Cleef, an actor with a close association with the Western medium.

Best known for his role as Angel Eyes in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and Mortimer in For a Few Dollars More , Lee Van Cleef made a multitude of Westerns during his career. They weren't as high-profile as the Spaghetti Westerns he made with Clint Eastwood and Sergio Leone, but some proved to be entertaining entries into the genre nonetheless.

After his work with Eastwood and Leone on the Dollars Trilogy , Van Cleef starred in a slew of 1970s Westerns, appearing alongsi

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