Henry Pollicut is the overarching antagonist of the 1968 Spaghetti western The Great Silence. Pollicut is a corrupt banker who serves as the "justice of the peace" of the town of Snow Hill, Utah, and a former bounty hunter responsible for murdering the family of the mute gunslinger Silence and rendering him mute.
He was portrayed by the late Luigi Pistilli.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- In his first chronological appearance, he and two of his associates go the house of an outlaw named Gordon, claiming that they have a warrant for his arrest, they promise to spare him if he comes out, and that they will arrest him, and a lawyer might prove his innocence. Gordon surrenders to them, but they kill him anyway, and they kill his wife with him, when Pollicut is afraid that the kid might talk, he willingly lets his partner, the Fake Sheriff slits the boy's vocal cords, ensuring that he never talks again. and said boy becomes hero, Silence, a mute gunslinger dedicated to getting revenge for his parents, with a seething hatred of bounty killers.
- When Silence tracks them down years later and kills the Fake Sheriff, Pollicut is only afraid for his own life, he doesn't care that his partner was shot to death, only that his own thumbs were shot off, and he never mentions him in the present.
- In the present, Pollicut is the de facto ruler, and a rottenly corrupt banker in the settlement of Snow Hill, Utah, he places bounties on desperate people, including the Mormon outlaws who have resorted to stealing to survive. This attracts the attention of bounty killer Loco, who gleefully murders, and at one point tortures, pretty much everyone Pollicut pays him to kill, both out of greed and sadism.
- Has Pauline's husband killed so he can make her his mistress through coercion, when she tries to to sell him her land, he refuses because he wants her instead. He even forcefully kisses her but she rejects him.
- When Loco is arrested after a bar fight with Silence, Pollicut pushes hard to get him released, and succeeds in doing so. Loco and Sheriff Burnett then go to deal with the Snow Hill outlaws, Burnett wants to lure the outlaws out with food and supplies, while Pollicut is against this.
- goes to where Silence and Pauline are after the former's fight with Loco, he is having his wounds treated, while Pollicut then breaks in, and sexually assaults and attempts to rape Pauline, while having his henchman torture silence, and he very nearly succeeds, until Silence manages to get the upper hand on the henchman, he then gets his gun and lethally shoots Pollicut, killing him.
- Despite Pollicut's death, Loco is still out there, and he had previously killed Burnett, and now has the outlaws as his hostages, while Silence is pretty badly beat up on account of Pollicut's torturing of him, and desperately tries to go and face off Loco and his gang, however Silence's injuries prove to much for him, as they slow him down enough for Loco and his gang to gain the upper hand on the former, they kill Silence, and Pauline too, then they proceed to shoot up all the outlaws that Pollicut had put bounties on, and gloats how he is going to collect there bounties later on.
External Links[]
- Henry Pollicut on the Villains Wiki