The Specialists (Italian: Gli specialisti, also known as Drop Them or I'll Shoot) is a 1969 Spaghetti Western co-written and directed by Sergio Corbucci. It was an international co-production between Italy, France and West Germany. Retrospective critics and scholars of Corbucci's Westerns have deemed The Specialists to be the final film in the director's "Mud and Blood" trilogy, which also includes Django (1966) and The Great Silence (1968).
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Plot
Outside of the town of Blackstone, a group of bandits rob a coach and humiliate its passengers. A man named Hud appears and he single-handedly kills enough criminals to scare the rest of the gang away. This feat is spotted by a group of rebellious teenagers, who, impressed, ask him to join them in their plans to take over the town. Hud, however, refuses. He is returning to Blackstone, the town where he grew up in, after learning that his brother Charly has been lynched for robbing a bank. For this, Hud seeks revenge on the whole town.
In Blackstone, no guns are allowed, and Hud is forced to reluctantly surrender his own. However, many citizens are surreptitiously armed and try to kill him, having deduced his intentions. None of them can kill Hud, who manages to murder each of his assailants in self-defense.