The Forgotten Pistolero (Italian: Il pistolero dell'Ave Maria, lit. "The Gunman of Hail Mary") is a 1969 Italian Spaghetti Western film co-written and directed by Ferdinando Baldi. The film is a western adaptation of the Greek myth of Orestes, subject of three famous drama-plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.^[1][2] Ulrich P. Bruckner puts it among the "most interesting and most touching Spaghetti Westerns of the late sixties".^[3]

When he returns home from war the Mexican general Juan Carrasco is killed by the lover of his wife Anna and by Anna as well. The victim's children run away with their nanny but fifteen years later they come back for revenge. Anna and Tomas want to have them killed but their henchmen failed to do so. It turns out that Anna is not the real mother of the dead general's children.

• Leonard Mann as Sebastian Carrasco
• Luciana Paluzzi as Anna Carrasco
• Peter Martell as Rafael Garcia
• Alberto de Mendoza as Tomas
• Pilar Velázquez as Isabella Carrasco
• Piero Lulli as Francisco
• Luciano Rossi as Juanito
• José Suárez as General Juan Carrasco
• Barbara Nelly as Conchita
• Enzo Fiermonte as Friar
• José Manuel Martín as Miguel

Wild East Productions released this on a limited edition DVD in 2007 with The Unholy Four.

• List of Italian films of 1969
• List of Spaghetti Western films