Fairly routine American Western (The third in a trilogy!) that's only notable for its racial slur title (and wicked theme song!), the presence of the always bad-ass Fred Willamson and the fact that it was directed by genre vet Jack Arnold (He did the original Creature from the Black Lagoon way back in the day).
Arnold does a unremarkable job with the material (He worked in television for most of his career and it shows), Williamson does his best with his wafer thin character, and the story of a black man becoming the sheriff of a small town is played for surface laughs. It leads to a lot of lame comedy, mostly from Williamson's grating sidekick, and an eventual procession to the completely unexciting final gun fight.
For Williamson completists only.
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