A Man Called Sledge is a 1970 Italian Spaghetti Western film starring James Garner in an extremely offbeat role as a grimly hardened thief, and featuring Dennis Weaver, Claude Akins and Wayde Preston.

'"[2] Luther Sledge, a wanted outlaw, is visiting his prostitute girlfriend, Ria, when one of his gang is shot over a poker game.

Sledge assembles his regular gang (including Joyce, Bice, Gutherie, Beetle, Kehoe and Hooker), they investigate the story, and equip themselves for the endeavor.

The gang escapes and later stop to split the gold, with Sledge taking a double share, which the old man notes aloud.

A musical montage shows a myriad of poker hands in which it appears the old man wins a substantial amount of the other outlaws' gold.

Sledge is wounded while killing the bushwhacker, Kehoe, but still refuses to bargain, so the old man reveals their kidnapping of Ria, badly hurt by Bice, whom it is implied has raped and beaten her.

Remembering Ria's words, Sledge kills the old man and rides away empty-handed as the town refills with locals.