thanks, done
I just watched Blood at Sundown for the first time yesterday. I didnât recognize Gianni Garko at first, because he didnât have facial hair and wasnât wearing black. It was fun to watch Garko play a villain. The Aztec/Mayan ruins as the hideout for Sartanaâs gang was a notable touch to the overall scenery of the film. I found the dynamics of some of the characters annoying. The over-protectiveness of Jerryâs sister towards Jerry was frustrating after witnessing him take the pistol off one of Sartanaâs men and shoot a couple of them off of a roof with perfect aim, and blow several others up with explosives in previous scenes. The shop owner making the snarky comments got on my nerves when he was mocking Jerryâs mutism. As always, Steffens was great as Steffens. I really like the theme song at the beginning of the movie. I think itâs one of the better scores in the genre. Overall, It was an enjoyable watch.
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Finally cracked open my Wild East copy of this film. It is a winner! Among the best of the âBâ films in my book. Now I need to compare the WE version to my Koch printâŚ
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A very very strange movie. A lot of non- realist scenes including Jerry and Johnny shooting at bad guys from completely different positions from shot to shot, endless bloodless fist fights, that Astec fort with the unrealistic matte and a very jumpy narrative. The English dubbing is awful and a lot of the dialogue is really odd and often deliberately bad. Itâs too long and there isnât a proper story were my main gripes because Steffen just kept finding excuses not to kill his brother. Some of the characters such as Manuela didnât look old enough to be adults 12 years ago when Steffen was imprisoned.
A couple of posters from some years backed queried the UK BBFC cut to the UK video release. This was for a cruel horsefall when Steffen brings down two horses in an alleyway in the Wishville sequence at about 35m.
One of the towns still has the Blackstone Hill sign from Arizona Colt (shot a few months earlier).
Why deliberate ?
Well for example, when Steffen rescues Blanc from 4 men trying to kill her the exchange is this:
AS - Whatâs this all about?
EB - oh itâs nothing, nothing at all. I guess I owe you my life and I donât like that kind of a debt
Thatâs got to be some kind of spoof dialogue.
Iâd have to see the scene again to judge the context, but it doesnât seem all that odd to me ⌠and certainly not funny enough to be considered a spoof.
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