***I wonder if that was a “European” release print,***
That is what I thought after seeing it was first released in Austria. The title was HEAVEN WITH A GUN.
I figured that was the film you were referencing. I recall seeing it on tv in the late-1970s, but when I caught a few glimpses of it on cable in recent years, I was taken aback by its somewhat icky, unsavory aura and attitude.
It’s probably why, when it comes to westerns, which I love, I tend to retrench back to the genre’s most pure roots, before the spaghetti-era nihilism and even before some of the post-war introduction of psychological drama. Indeed, I think my all-time favorite western in probably “When a Man’s a Man” (1935) with George O’Brien. Which almost seems like it came from a different planet than “Heaven With a Gun.”