Just watched God Forgives… I Don’t and Ace High for the first time. Due to the presence of Eli Wallach and the entire third act in the casino, I liked Ace High better. Four stars from me. God Forgives, three.
Ace high is real good. The whole casino robbery is great. The movie changes a few times, just love a western that does that.
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I watched this recently…couldn’t get the mexican fiesta trip out scene music out of my head for like 2 days.
ModernDjango seen Catlow? Its got Nimoy
No I haven’t seen Catlow but now I think I will have to!
Recently viewed a James Caan 70’e euro western where Caan and another guy play pool on horses. Had seen a similar type of scene before, and yes you guessed it a similar scene is in this film. Found the film less boring since I last viewed in 2007, but alot of scenes are still on the boring side for me. Trys to be epic like pointed out earlier in the thread, and does not always work. Viewed the Italian cut this time around, and most of the extra scenes are in the first part of the film. Scenes are just extentions of existing scenes, and do not add much in my view.[font=times new roman][/font]
Any opinions out there on this SW? Reviews are pretty mixed (although that’s nothing new!)…
I really liked this spag’. Seeing these three guys together is all my money worth, but still, Terence Hill could have been a little more prominent, he’s definitely not trying to steal the picture. I think it mixes the serious and entertaining parts very well, and to me the best parts are with Eli Wallach, he lift the movie.
Also a nod to the OST by Carlo Rustichelli. The main theme kinda reminds me of a composition by Giuseppe Verdi - both beautiful and menacing. 4/5
Just watched the Paramount release of this, in its German release (if you see what I mean). It’s very long and baggy but eventually the shambling nature of the story becomes quite amusing. I very much liked Hill, Spencer and Wallace, though Hill is still being forced into being an Eastwood clone at this stage, and his more familiar character is yet to develop. I totally forgot that I have the Dutch release of God Forgives… I Don’t from a recent trip to Amsterdam, so I’ll watch that next.
Being a fan of Colizzi’s first four films I may start writing a longer piece about him in English language soon (German SW fans maybe know the DVD booklets I did for GOD FORGIVES and some other Hill & Spencer films). What I’m looking for is information about his last few years and some pictures of him. I have over 300 photos on his three SW, but only one still that shows him from behind :).
Colizzi was a friend of Ettore Scola, Mario Monicelli, Gillo Pontecorvo and screenwriters Age & Scarpelli; his wife at that time was assistant director and his son Alessandro, born in 1962, is director too.
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mille grazie per questo !!
PS: I’m looking for this German 118x59cm poster (in color, I have only this bw image)
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Gosh, that first poster is lovely. Would love to see it in colour myself.
Nice acting, nice mechanism , excellent soundtrack, good scenario
4 stars for me 8)
Somewhat strangely, it’s a new film on Netflix this month (in the UK). Or leastways, I’ve only just noticed it’s there. Can’t have been there long.
I know I saw it off and on the US Netflix, never payed it much attention since I already had the DVD. Only good spag I saw on Netflix was The Mercenary, which is intermittently shown. I try and watch it each time it pops up.
We never have Spags on Netflix over here (beyond the Dollars movies, which appear sporadically). I’d like to hope that it’s the start of a trend. Spags aren’t nearly as popular here in the UK as they appear to be on the European continent or in the US, but I think that more exposure could change that.
Ironically, I watched it today and didn’t think it was all that special, alas. Good enough, s’pose, but far from great. But I think it’s the sort of picture that many would like, so I’m glad it’s up there “reprazentin’”. 
Well, I did some looking on the Instant watch section over here, all I can find is OUATITW. Not even a Western section on Netflix Instant >:( Amazon Instant has a few more PD films (Django and Sartana, Sartana, etc), but that’s about it.
Case of talent of the involved not really matching the ambition of the movie. Except Eli, he is really good here, if somewhat too Tuco-ish, but much better than in Don’t turn the other Cheek. But the script is the episodic mess, and direction feels like director is faking it that he knows what he is doing. Bud is best when he is hitting someone, and Hill is too static here, body comedy really suited him best, not Clint/Nero impersonation he did for his more serious westerns. Not exactly bad, but forgettable.
I remember it was either late 70’s or early 80’s it about this gunslinger find someone in a barn (don’t remember who) at get a paper to take to china or japan most likely japan and it goes in this trip and shoot a lot of i guess samurais and this war lord almost kill him and hes got to fix or repair some kind a black powder gun and at the end after he kill everyone he find i guess the person and the paper it was a check that he could cash anywhere in the USA
thanks for your assistance
Joe