The Hellbenders

"The Hellbenders" (1967) — watch online on iFILM. A spaghetti western directed by Sergio Corbucci, with Joseph Cotten as a Confederate colonel who flatly refuses to accept the South has lost.

Colonel Jonas has stolen a Union payroll and hidden it inside a coffin — officially his dead son's body — planning to fund a Confederate revival. His small disguised crew hauls it across hostile territory, one wrong glance away from disaster at every checkpoint. Corbucci, who made Django and The Great Silence, takes a leaner approach here: the tension comes from the scheme constantly threatening to unravel, and Cotten plays Jonas with a quiet ferocity that makes the whole enterprise feel genuinely dangerous. Stream "The Hellbenders" (1967) online on iFILM.