A full-scale, mood-thick homage to the world of Humphrey Bogart and great action directors like Raoul Walsh and Sam Fuller, Fassbinder’s film centers on a gunman named Ricky, a charismatic figure in soft hat and white suit. Recently returned from a Vietnamized America, Ricky carries out his assigned murders with neither knowledge nor emotion. The amazing final shoot-out is probably the most startling of Fassbinder’s patented off-beat endings.