Il tempo degli avvoltoi (also known as Last of the Badmen, Time of Vultures and No Tears for a Killer) is a 1967 Italian spaghetti Western film directed by Nando Cicero.

[1][2] The womaniser Kitosch takes with good humour the whipping dealt to him by boss Don Jaime after he has fondled the wife of the foreman.

The man who denounced him draws but is killed by a knife throw from Kitosch, who leaves with Tracy.

After burying the coffin – with the corpse of his mother who died while he was in jail, Tracy sets out to avenge himself on his wife Traps and best friend Big John, who turned him in for $10.000.

When they leave Tracy ignites petroleum he has earlier poured out on the floor and she is seen surrounded by flames.

At the pass Tracy and Kitosch arrive to see the gangs of Big John and Camaro attack a transport of gold.

When the bank clerks venture out of the wagon to extend their thanks they are shot by Tracy, who then pursues Big John while Kitosch kisses the gold.

Tracy catches Big John and drags him through the mud, and proceeds to screw his hands into a door.

Tracy loads all gold on his horse and goes inside the cantina, where he fingers his gun while he observes Kitosch dancing.

He is about to draw at Kitosch's back when he hears about Don Jaime's cattle business, and suggests that the two rob him.

As the cash is deposited in the bank, Kitosch take Don Jaime's wife as a hostage for $90.000.

The wife convinces Tracy that they should leave together and take the money that she says is hidden at the ranch, but Kitosch stops them.

He takes one shot without visible effect, and then draws Tracy's derringer – "Your own little trick" – and shoots him several times, saying that he should have done that the moment they met.

Il tempo degli avvoltoi was shown as part of a retrospective on Spaghetti Western at the 64th Venice International Film Festival in 2007.

[4] In his investigation of narrative structures in Spaghetti Western films, Fridlund writes that Il tempo degli avvoltoi, "this dark and twisted tale", basically presents a variation on the stories of Spaghetti Western films like Death Rides a Horse and Day of Anger, about the relationship between an older gunfighter and a younger protagonist, who joins him and later confronts him, and he further traces the root of this type of plot to the play between the younger and the older bounty killer in For a Few Dollars More.

Fridlund compares the ending with Chuck Moll and also the American Western Shane.