To my best Leo Anchoriz character with his bazooka.
3/5
Agreed - it is just a good little action flick nothing more nothing less.
Watched today and I quite enjoyed it. I didnāt have any problems with the action boring me, was all good fun. Although I liked the action, I usually have one complaint about Castellariās westerns and thatās the acrobatics in the action scenesā¦ just too goofy for me. And what a good opening, with the dialog referencing the titleā¦ Great scene
Thought the end was kind of goofy too, with Chuck Connors and his crazy ass grin
Liked this one after a rewatch.
This was the only one Western from Castellari, which I have not seen.
I have this changed. And what can I say. I am not a fan of him.
Heās like Johnny Hamlet. The film looks great, offers some nice location, lots of action. But he has not impressed me.
Again, it reflects the typical fights. Similar to later in the Trinity movies. And then the death scenes. The people flying through the air like flying exercises the U.S. AIR FORCE.
De Masiās music is as always good.
I have the DVD of Eyecatcher Movies. The picture is OK, but has some stains.
I have not regretted the purchase. The film, although not great for me, but I still rate it above average.
By the way, Leo AnchĆ³riz looks like the brother of Frank Wolff. Or?
Yeah I got the Eyecatcher DVD as well, looks a lot better than the Wild East disc. Though the english subtitles are awful and tiring to read, at least it has themā¦ I donāt regret buying it either.
So we could with a fan edit version perhaps.
Not a masterpiece like Keoma but the music is somehow better without any crying. I enjoyed it cause of the action. It must have been easy to write the script. Not many dialogues in that and more action paced as usual: A shootout is followed by a brawl which is followed by a shootout followed by a brawl ā¦. Itās a men on a mission movie focused on the mission and not disturbed by any boring recruitment or characterization. The story is simple and the action is effective. IMO not boring at all and fast paced.
3.5 out of 5
good spaghetti western some scenes itās boring, most of the film itās fun
itās the only spaghetti that i prefer most the fistfights and no so much the gunfights
i donāt understand how frank wolf was in both sides without nobody knows it? strange thing
juck connors is realy the winner of this filmā¦
One of the most known SW that I havenāt seen yet
Another Dirty Dozen, or should I say The Secret Invasion premise based spaghetti, that SW directors seem to like so much.
Castellari was one of those professional directors, with little concerns in the artistic note of his films, with the exception of the camera work, which I found quite good in this and other films he directed, justice must made to men we was a real craftsman with the camera.
So action was all it matters and we got plenty of it here, the problem itās its distribution, and above all a plot that run out of thoughts somewhere in the film, the successive twists and psychological effects on the characterās could have been done and used better, but if that worked right it would have made a terrific movie, and that wasnāt suppose to be, if you hire Castellari to direct an SW, you probably wonāt be expecting much more than this as the final result.
Chuck Connors was a very physical actor, with the ideal look (in my view) for Westerns and above all for SW, pity he didnāt had done more SW than the few he did, I can imagine him in a few spags replacing some other actors to a better effect. The rest of the cast doesnāt need much talk about, Frank Wolff seems like an improbable match for a fist fight with Connors, and does not look very menacing, surprisingly in this stunt made cast, is the fact that Spanish actor Leo Anchoriz was also a scrip writer of some arty pretentious films (and comedies), and it seems also an art director. In another perspective couldnāt help noticing Ken Wood trying to emulate Charles Bronson almost the entire film. Couldnāt help thinking ifd castellari With Connors wanted to create an Eastwood effect, they both got similar careers until they went to Europe to do Westerns.
So did I like it? Yeah not bad, the beginning and the ending deserved a better film, those prison scenes could have been replaced by something better and more believable in the script. But as an action non brainer kind of flick I guess its OK. The exaggeration stuff just spoils the movie, for instance the union army soldiers couldnāt shot an elephant in front of their faces, I wonder how they won the war in Kill them all, and come back alone Universe.
In the end I got bogged cause of the first 15 minutes or so that combine with the title, promised a great flick, which just never happens. The last Castellari Iāve seen (Tuareg) was indeed better, and it had Mark Harmon as the main star.
3 stars
I really like this one, by no means is it Castellariās best western but itās certainly the most fun.
I also like this one, top 30 at least.
I hated it. But I think I still need to rewatch it, I could change my opinion with better print.
This one has a lot of reviews, including (imo) two swdb premium writers, but there is really not need to say anything more about this movie other than Stantonās (and Reverendās) comment on the main mage.
Brainless actioneer that after a while becomes pure parody and is probably just the type of movie Leone had in mind when he was complaining about deviation of the genre. Even if youāre just looking for the action it gets tiresome and boring because there is lot of repeating (everyone dies in exactly the same manner). My āfavouriteā sequence is when our dirty six are sitting like clay pigeons on the sloooooooow moving raft but not single bullet can hit them while they drop tens of union soldiers like flies. And then they are tortured to reveal the location of the gold: it is at the same location they were picked obviously, forcrissakes 
Watch the pre-credits sequence until Frank Wolff utters the title and then turn it of and watch Sabata instead.
(I admit that younger kids might like it)
(@Kill Them All and Come Back Alone)
Well, itās not the greatest Spaghetti Western out there, but itās certainly not boring. Above average for me.
I enjoyed it a lot. Itās somewhat dumb, but definitely not tedious.
Its good, I really enjoyed it, but ive only seen the wild east productions edition.
I have an autographed poster replica of this here, but I need to figure out whose signature it is, does anyone have a sample of Castellariās signature?
Though not easy to interpret, here it is
