 He used a portable 35mm Arriflex camera.In his investigation of narrative structures in Spaghetti Western films, Fridlund discusses this film as a variation of the partnership plot that was used in many Spaghetti Westerns following the success of For a Few Dollars More.Compared to 
the latter story, where the bounty killer partners at first have a fight and one of them later turns out to have a secret vengeance motive, the two protagonists of "Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears" form a steady pair from the beginning.