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OK, Iā€™ll take that as a mild endorsement, sort of :slight_smile:

Yeah, I think there is a very old thread somewhere asking about an unidentified actor.

To revive this topic, the latest contribution is a review of A Town Called Bastard by the honorable Mr. @morgan

http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/A_Town_Called_Bastard_Review

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Good work by @morgan

I havenā€™t seen the movie in years. I then watched it on French TV, if Iā€™m not mistaken, a truncated version and French audio. I have a copy from cinemageddon, but havenā€™t watched it yet. Donā€™t know what the differences with this new release could be.

Also for those that might have missed it

A books list for newcomers

Redesigned catalogs

http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Explosive_Media_catalog

I would love to see all those remaining Western allā€™italiana issues uploaded. Thereā€™s some great stuff in them.

By the way the links to the ones that were already uploaded no longer work:

http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Westernsā€¦_Allā€™Italiana!

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I shall get to that at one point. I take all the blame. @Tom_B sent them all to me but even though I finally found an easy way to do it (technically), I just havenā€™t gotten around to it. Let me put those somewhere in sight or where I can physically stumble over them as a reminder :wink:

Well I think we have the Eurowestern (Italy, Spain etc) main pages mostly updated to the new format. If anyone finds any still with the table format, let me know and I will fix it. As to the Mexican category, anyone who wants to tackle that, go for it :slight_smile:

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50th Anniversary FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE

Half a century ago, shortly before Christmas 1965, the second part in what is now called The Dollar trilogy saw the light

For the occasion I re-watched and re-studied the movie, its genesis and the history of some of its paraphernalia

Part I: For a Few dollars More - The Review

http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/For_a_Few_Dollars_More_Review

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50 years of FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE also means:

  • 50 years of an incredible score by Ennio Morricone
  • 50 years of that Miracle in the desert created by Carlo Simi: El Paso

Real all about their work in For a Few Dollars More - Part II: Sound & Look:

http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/For_a_Few_Dollars_More:_Sound_%26_Look

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I finally reviewed the minor classic MY NAME IS PECOS, the first of two spaghs starring ROBERT WOODS as the Mexican gunslinger PECOS

http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/My_Name_is_Pecos_Film_Review

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Liking that poster :sunglasses:

The one on this page? Itā€™s a Belgian poster, bi-lingual and a drawing (or painting). They are kinda special, if only for these two titles, one French, the other Dutch. In Brussels everything has two names, streets, market places, buildings, offices, etc. Often thereā€™s a conflict of word order. In this title particular the word order isnā€™t different, but usually it is. Street is in Dutch ā€˜straatā€™, in French ā€˜rueā€™, but in Dutch the group of words determining the noun, usually comes before the noun, in French it usually follows the noun. This has led to street signs such as:

You can have a lot of fun reading street signs in Brussels

Yes thats the one :smile: .

Howard Hughes has submitted a review of the Arrow release of Requiescant which I have just poted up on the site here: Howard Hughes' Requiescant DVD Review (Arrow Release) - The Spaghetti Western Database

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The nicest guy in the business, robert woods, plays the villain for once (it makes Fernando laugh):

http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Viva_Carrancho!_Review

And hot on your heels, @Djangoisme with THE LAST TOMAHAWK The Last Tomahawk Review - The Spaghetti Western Database

IF YOU MEET SARTANA PRAY FOR YOUR DEATH (1968, Parolini - Garko)

REVIEW: If you meet Sartana, pray for your Death Review - The Spaghetti Western Database

Iā€™ve now re-watched and re-evaluated all Sartanas. I watched them in reversed order of preference this time, starting with the least beloved (at least in my memory). As a result I watched this one - the first - last. The order of preference hasnā€™t changed much: the first one is still my favorite Sartana.

Itā€™s not a perfect movie; it has a rather ugly look, even for a low-budget production, but of all Sartanas, this one offers the most exciting mix of comedy and violence, and it also has the best supporting cast: Kinski, Berger, Sancho, Chaplin (well, Sidney, not Charlie) ā€¦

So my Top 5 is:

  1. Se incontri Sartana prega per la tua morte (Parolini - Garko)
  2. Buon Funerale Amigos, Paga Sartana! (Carnimeo-Garko)
  3. Una Nuvola di Polvereā€¦ un Grido di Morteā€¦ Arriva Sartana! (Carnimeo-Garko)
  4. Cā€™ĆØ Sartana vendi la pistola e comprati la bara (Carnimeo-Hilton)
  5. Sono Sartana il vostro becchino (Carnimeo-Garko)

Working on a SARTANA SPECIAL, so more Sartana coming up soon

First time I saw these films I had some trouble stomaching them, and I have been avoiding them since, until your series of reviews made me take another look. My stomach troubles didnā€™t exactly go away. But I have come to think a lot more of the first one, and I agree itā€™s the best of them. I have my objections against it as everybody else. In particular Iā€™m not happy with the joking with Sartanaā€™s gun. I donā€™t know if it is a Derringer like you say in your review, it might have been. But we get a real close look at the pistolā€™s chamber in the opening scene.

It seems it doesnā€™t have a rotating chamber at all, like some multi barrel handguns had. We can clearly see the chambers and the barrels are in one piece. Probably this gun was fired by means of a rotating pin. You cannot simply put a cylinder into a gun like this, as is done in in the final scene.

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Same for me. First two are probably equal.

Well, it wouldnā€™t work in real life (like Sartana himself, most probably)

I donā€™t think these things were meant to be taken seriously, they were gimmicks. In the final movie we get a organ used as a batttle station and a a miniature robot that can be programmed to kill. That was a bit over the top as far as Iā€™m concerned, but I can understand that others have problems with this Derringer (think only of its reach and precision)

Derringer yes or no? No idea actually.