None of his films is of any importance to the genre. Outside of the 60s-Italian-genre-fan-world nobody has ever heard of him.
If none of his many too many Spags had been made, nothing would change in the reception of the genre.
Well, he was a bad actor, and his typical SW looks, which looked charismatic on photos, looked lifeless on the screen.
Surprisingly he was quite lively when he played, instead of the usual taciturn hero, in a more self ironic mode. Thatās why Last Train to Durango and Dead Men Donāt Count are his best performances. And also belong to his best Spags, together with Django the Bastard, Garringo and Why Go on Killing? .
Some of his other Spags, like this one here, are also not bad, but as I said none is of a certain importance.
Probably the Bastard, but I never liked High Plains Drifter very much. The directing is mediocre, but of course the not very talented Garrone is in that regard not that good either. But it is easily his best Spag.
High Plainās Drifter is due for a re-watch, but then a re-watch of Pale Rider last year made the film only worse. On the other hand the other 2 westerns directed by the Clint himself are pretty good.
I was never a great fan ā¦ but Iāve mellowed, and quite like āGentleman Killerā and āKiller Kidā ā¦ heās certainly no great shakes as an actor, I think possibly because of poor directors, and the fact that he didnāt distinguish the difference between being cold rather than cool ! ā¦ having a cigar and some beard stubble isnāt quite enough to make a good performance.
I like all Clintās self-directed westerns with Unforgiven being my favourite, but I donāt think any of them compare to the spaghetti westerns that inspired them except for High Plains Drifter, which while nowhere near as good as the my favourites from the genre I think itās certainly better Bastard.
Shout has released this also now? Ay, carambaā¦ I have the NEW & US Timeless Media releases, both report 90min runtime and according to the NEW box this is the uncut runtime - Iāve never actually checked to verify though. Both of these DVDs look pretty much identical, Timeless probably just copied off the NEW disc.
Anyone have details on Shout release? Did they do a new transfer? Guess I should just look it upā¦
Oh okā¦ I thought perhaps that was the case but I wasnāt sure. Seems like I remember hearing that back when I bought the dvd years ago. I thought perhaps Shout had put out a new release as theyāve been doing new blu rays recently.
And Iām with Lone_Gringo - Steffen is a genre favorite. Maybe heās not the highest calibre actor, but have you guys seen the films heās starring in? Not exactly the highest calibre films hereā¦
Decided to do a screen comparison of the NEW vs Timeless. The NEW appears to have a bit more sharper detail, and the coloring is quite different between the two.
