yea but then might as well shut down and leave it to the IMDB.
It was a joke, even though such a website wouldnât be a bad idea.
I just picked up an abridged version of a Mexican Western on Super 8mm film. It stars Mario and Fernando Almada, and according to a note taped to the reel, âthe villain gets harpoonedâ. Anyone have any idea what movie this might be? The title on the box is Bullet For A Dead Man, but box titles on these condensed Super 8 films are often the same as the title of the full movie.
Another Mexican western disguised as a SW: this time is Duelo en El Dorado, directed by René Cardona in 1969 and released in Italy in July '73 with the director credited as Lawrence Cooper.
Translation: I make the sign of the Cross⊠and then I kill you.
is it in the database already?
No. For René Cardona we have 4 titles, one of which dated 1960.
Should we put it in there then?
Perhaps it would be safer to watch the film firstâŠ
I look forward to reading through this thread. Iâm a big fan of Mexican Westerns, even the âcharros cantoresâ (singing cowboys) like âAllaâ en el Rancho Grande.â
What I donât know is if Mexico made political or revolutionary Westerns⊠So much to learn!!
There is an incorrect entry in the DB for this film, which I just bought on DVD and am collecting/researching info on:
Traiganlos vivos o muertos (1974)
https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Traiganlos_vivos_o_muertos
In the DB page, it is listed under the title Todo por nada, which is a totally different film
I would go ahead and edit it, but I no longer have permission
Iâll see to it tomorrow, itâs past midnight here at the moment
Cool, hereâs a short summary if you want to add it in:
Jotsy the beautiful bank robber, along with Dan, Pedro and Roberto are a gang of bandits famous for their robberies. Sheriff Clayon pursues them night and day with the slogan of âTraiganlos vivos o muertosâ (âBring them alive or deadâ).
Watched the first 10 minutes of El juez de la soga 1973 and, so far, it looks pretty SW to me.
https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/El_juez_de_la_soga
Thanks scherp!
Massimo- for sure, these westerns have all the flavor of SWs, and sometimes are more graphically violent. Thanks for sharing the poster - nice find! The only poster image I had was very small and pixelated.
Next, I will watch Los Desalmados which seems to translate to The Fiendish. Iâm watching these in Spanish, which I understand very little(for now ), but I believe Iâm following the story lines pretty well. I can easily see how a person could learn a language by watching movies in that language as long as you, every now and then, look up words youâre curious about along the way.
Ah, RubĂ©n Galindo! I havenât heard of this one yet, will have to look it up. Are you watching on youtube or where did you find it?
I am actually using these movies as a way to try and help myself learn Spanish, something Iâve been less than half-assed about for years now. I was thinking of maybe creating English subtitles for these films to also help learn the language, but I donât know⊠thatâs a lot of work
I just started watching on Youtube. Youâll be an Spanish expert if you subtitle them. I should have had that as an assignment in high school Spanish classes.
I may have to watch that same youtube upload - so far I donât see it available anywhere else but will keep looking. The usual cheapo Mexican DVD releasers have a couple, but they seem to be OOP. This is why I like to buy them up if I can, because when they go OOP they are very hard to find. I plan on doing some real world hunting at some point in Latin markets and whatnot. A trip to Mexico would be incredible.
Thereâs another youtube upload of that film by someone who seems to have uploaded most Mexican westerns I look for, but its very strange - they start about 30min into the film so they are all missing almost half the movie.