Alternative Top 20

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710

Thanks both.
Duly noted and updated.

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711

I’ve updated the Alt Top 20 page.
No major changes and no new entries. Just some minor place reshuffling this year.

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712

I just noticed blindman is in both the essential top 20 and alternative top 20 now


713

Thanks for pointing it out! We need to fix this :slight_smile: maybe with whatever title got kicked out by Blindman

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714

Phil

My understanding is that the top 18 of the essential list is excluded here. So, on that basis, here is my alternative 20.

  1. God Forgives
 I Don’t - Colizzi
  2. Run Man Run - Sollima
  3. Johnny Yuma - Guerrieri
  4. The Forgotten Pistolero - Baldi
  5. The Bounty Killer - Martin
  6. The Hellbenders - Corbucci
  7. Tepepa - Petroni
  8. Ace High - Colizzi
  9. Bandidos - Dallamano
  10. Django the Bastard - Garrone
  11. Cut-Throats Nine - J. Marchent
  12. The Price of Power - Valerii
  13. Red Sun - Young
  14. Blindman - Baldi
  15. A Pistol for Ringo - Tessari
  16. California - Lupo
  17. Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead - Vari
  18. Four of the Apocalypse - Fulci
  19. Matalo! - Canevari
  20. Kill the Wicked! - Boccia

If, as Seb points out above, we don’t want Blindman in the alternative top 20 now that it has replaced Run Man Run in the essential top 20 then remove my vote for Blindman here and add a vote for Requiem for a Gringo - Merino which is next on my personal ranked list.

Cheers!

715

The marked are so “underrated” by the SW fans IMO.

The music and style of Requiem of a Gringo is just beautiful


And Johnny Yuma is a top class directed SW with the best “antihero” performance by Mark Damon (i e not including the character Mr Ferguson which I dare not call an “anti hero” :wink: ) and of course Rosalba Nero in top shape


The Forgotten Pistolero the perfect “soap opera” SW version
and the main musical theme and Pilar Velázquez !

Kill the Wicked! with exceptional moody music by Lavagnino wins over Matalo! which is not as perfect with its exaggerated style, but I will by the Bluray separately if it is possible without the “box”.

716

I think we have similar tastes. Johnny Yuma and The Forgotten Pistolero are the two real gems I’ve found as I’ve explored beyond the Official Top 20 and both sit comfortably in my own top 20.

Kill the Wicked! I watched after I had seen Matalo! I was five minutes into the film and was like 
 “this storyline seems familiar”. I wasn’t aware of the link between the two at the time. Obviously it became apparent. I like both and agonised over which to rank higher. Interestingly, it was Matalo!'s uniqueness (or “exaggerated style” as you better describe it) that won out for me. I think both these films will grow on me.

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717

Blindman now taken out of Alt Top 20 and replaced by A Stranger in Town.

Folk can still vote for Blindman going forward if they want to as it may drop out of the official T20 in future. The scores are close. I will mark the score in case I need to put it back some time.

718

I have added your scores to the list too, Ian. :slightly_smiling_face:

719

Never done this before. My Alternative Top 20 looks very similar to my Official Top 20 list :sweat_smile:

  1. Ace High
  2. Django the Bastard
  3. Trinity Is Still My Name
  4. Dead Men Don’t Count
  5. They Call Me Trinity
  6. Zorro (1975)
  7. The Price of Power
  8. Django
Prepare a Coffin!
  9. God Forgives
 I Don’t!
  10. I am Sartana
Your Angel of Death
  11. Apocalypse Joe
  12. Johnny Hamlet
  13. The Forgotten Pistolero
  14. Garringo
  15. Tequila Joe
  16. Ringo and His Golden Pistol
  17. Ben and Charlie
  18. Wrath of God
  19. Massacre Time
  20. Savage Guns
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720

Presume you mean this Savage Guns?

https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Era_Sam_Wallash
*lo_chiamavano
*'E_così_sia'!

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721

Yep, that. I know everyone hates it but I find it endearing :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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722

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. :smile:

Anyway, I have updated the Alt Top 20 to include your choices now.

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723

Actually it should, apart from your top 20 films, which are also in the forum’s Top 20.

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724

My updated Alternative Top 20 SW’s of All Time. They are as follows:

  1. The Grand Duel (1972) G. Santi
  2. Day of Anger (1967) T. Valerii
  3. A Pistol for Ringo (1965) D. Tessari
  4. Companeros (1970) S. Corbucci
  5. They Call Him Holy Ghost (1972) G. Carnimeo
  6. Tepepa (1968) G. Petroni
  7. Any Gun Can Play (1967) E.G. Castellari
  8. And God Said to Cain (1969) A. Margheriti
  9. Price of Power (1969) T. Valerii
  10. Boot Hill (1969) G. Colizzi
  11. My Name Is Pecos (1966) M. Lucidi
  12. Hellbenders (1967) S. Corbucci
  13. Sabata (1969) G. Parolini
  14. Requiem For a Gringo (1968) J.L. Merino
  15. The Ruthless Four (1968) G. Capitani
  16. If You Meet Sartana, Pray For Your Death (1968) G. Parolini
  17. They Call Me Trinity (1970) E. Barboni
  18. Cut Throats Nine (1971) J.L.R. Marchent
  19. Adios, Sabata (1970) G. Parolini
  20. California (1977) M. Lupo
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725

This is my first Alternative Top 20 list:
Dynamite Joe
Sugar Colt
Texas Adios
Sartana’s here..Trade your pistol for a coffin
My name is Pecos
Forgotten Pistolero
Hate is my God
Indio Black
The greatest robbery in the West
Tepepa
Quinto: Fighting proud
a Dollar a Head
Johnny Yuma
Return of Halleluja
a Stranger in Town
Shoot, Gringo, shoot
A bullet for Sandoval
Kill or be killed
Two crosses at danger Pass
Cowards don’t pray
James Bond in the Spaghetti West with his Buddy, I like it!

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726

I think we should change the whole “alternative Top 20” to extended favorite list, Your Top 20 + 20 more. Because majority of the members here got it wrong.

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727

Ha ha, yes, it seems to be too complicated 


728

I agree, and it also is much theoretically simple and logical to just expand the voting to 40 SWs or more.

Many aficionados have watched even more than 40 SWs, and if you give number 1 100 points, 2 99 points etc etc you should get a more representative list in my view.

729

Nachdem ich heute bereits meine TOP 20 Liste gepostet habe, habe ich gleich mal noch meine Alternative 20 Liste erstellt:

  1. Eine Flut von Dollars (Un fiume di dollari)

  2. Bandidos (Bandidos)

  3. Django und die Bande der Bluthunde (Django il bastardo)

  4. Django - 10.000 Blutige Dollar (10.000 dollari per un massacro)

  5. Vier FĂ€uste fĂŒr ein Halleluja (
Continuavano a chiamarlo TrinitĂ )

  6. Im Staub der Sonne (Spara, Gringo, spara)

  7. Lauf um dein Leben (Corri uomo corri)

  8. Django - Ich will ihn tot (Lo voglio morto)

  9. Django - Unbarmherzig wie die Sonne (Sentenza di morte)

  10. Leg ihn um, Django (Vado
 l’ammazzo e torno)

  11. Spiel dein Spiel und töte, Joe (Un uomo chiamato Apocalisse Joe)

  12. Django - Die TotengrÀber warten schon (Quella sporca storia nel West)

  13. Vier fĂŒr ein Ave Maria (I quattro dell’Ave Maria)

  14. Django - Nur der Colt war sein Freund (Django spara per primo)

  15. Die fĂŒnf GefĂŒrchteten (Un esercito di 5 uomini)

  16. Eine Pistole fĂŒr Ringo (Una pistola per Ringo)

  17. Gott vergibt, Django nie! (Dio perdona
 io no!)

  18. Sartana - Noch warm und schon Sand drauf (Buon funerale amigos
 paga Sartana)

  19. Ein Halleluja fĂŒr Spirito Santo (Uomo avvisato mezzo ammazzato
 parola di Spirito Santo)

  20. Ein Halleluja fĂŒr zwei linke BrĂŒder (Jesse & Lester due fratelli in un posto chiamato TrinitĂ )

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