Saw this for the first time recently- Wild East DVD - and thought it was OK but Iād seen most of it before in other movies (apart from the very end).
No-ones mentioned The Dirty Outlaws but I thought it was very similar to that. They both take place in the same set (Elios I think), in a ghost town and in both the hero is humiliated and left for dead by a group of criminals in a money dispute. In both the hero, patches himself up, kills the henchmen separately in set pieces and gets the chief villain to return to the scene of the crime for a final reckoning. The second half of the film, when he kills all the henchmen was very similar to Death Sentence; self contained set pieces with the hero turning up in remote locations without explanation (Peter had told Jack he couldnāt find anyone earlier but Jack has no problem). Inevitably one of the set pieces is a card game duel (as per Death Sentence and Vengeance).
The props in Indian Joeās shack were intriguing. Loads of water containers hanging down, dozens of clay pots, several knives hanging on pegs, other things dangling down from ropes. Furniture. This is a psycho mute Indian so what was that all about? I guess weāll never know.
Thatās a really good comparison with The Dirty Outlaws. I think youāre right that you get a lot of the same stuff in other westerns, though, the thing that really stood out to me was the ending where we see how revenge not only leads to Jackās death, it also makes him as bad as his enemies. I really like it when Spaghetti Westerns show how revenge is a bad thing.
to contribute to this topic I have made a long time ago those collages
here was Robert WOODS best performance
the location in Desert of Israel was a great one
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I watched Black Jack last night for the first time and must agree with those that say itās one of the better Spaghetti Westerns. Some great thoughts from posters in this thread about the film too.
Thought the pacing was good, it never stalled or felt stale, and I actually liked the unhinged moments that Woodsā character had, tied in well with the final scenes and the twist at the end. Oh and the Israeli setting - marvellous.
IMDbās 6/10 rating seems a tad harsh, Iād give it an 8.5/10.
I will now be going down the Robert Woods archive!
I definitely like all the oneās Iāve seen. I havenāt seen Pecos Cleans Up yet though which I believe is weaker. I also havenāt seen the MacGregors films but I did buy the Blus of them earlier in the year so Iāll try and get round to watching them soon.
Iāve been meaning to watch it since I saw the first. Iām just struggling to find time to watch films at the momentā¦Iāll get to it some time soon hopefully. The MacGregors films too.
Oh yeah, mustāve had a bit of a brain fart while typing my reply . What I mean is itās a fun Indiana Jones-like romp with an old temple and treasure to be found.
I LOVED this one! In my top twenty for sure. This one feels like a proto-Tarantino film, with the way he goes after the men who wronged him one by one, inflicting a different type of death for each one. Itās a villain film with the bad guy as the protagonist, and has a unique take on the āāMan in Blackāā archetype.
. What I mean is itās a fun Indiana Jones-like romp with an old temple and treasure to be found.