I have viewed this one three times in about the last year or so, mainly because I seemed to get a different print of the movie around every three months. The best one is a 2.35 print from the Movies For Men channel which shows a few westerns.
The film is OK, and is entertaining enough. I do like snowy locations for a change now and again. Not to fond of the score.
I think itĀ“s interesting how DĀ“Amato manages to make even these amazing souroundings look bleak and dull, haha, quite a talent. That said i like many of his 70s films, very laidback and relaxing, even when theyĀ“re suppose to be adventures like this one.
They must have shown at least twenty titles by now as a rough guess. Most are ones that you can get on dvd like; Django, Django Kill, The Strangerās Gundown and A Reason To Live , A Reason To Die.
Apart from Cormack, I have been pleased with upgrade widescreen prints that are better quality than the VHS english audio releases to Carambola and Hellhounds of Alaska. Django Against Sartana has also been shown in a nice 1.85 widescreen print, but the fandub of the Italian disc is even better quality.
[quote=āLindberg, post:4, topic:1736ā]This āMovies For Men channelā is it a good source for rare SWs?
What more have they shown?[/quote]wouldnāt say they showed rare SWāS but they have shown a lot recently aside from the ones mentioned by ENNIOO, they have screened vengeance, the ruthless four, brother outlaw, i want him dead, bullet for a general, chuck mool, the red coats, white fang, texas adidios, a man called noon,the big showdown and some others whose titles escape me for the moment.
[quote=āSilver Wolf, post:7, topic:1736ā]Off-topic, but was A Man Called Noon shown in widescreen?[/quote]to be honest silver wolf i donāt know as did not see this film on movies for men as have already seen it, but a lot of the spaghettis shown are shown in widescreen.
This movie , for me, is an prime example of one of the most interesting aspects of watching SWs - seeing how a movie could have been improved with few changes here and there. It gets 7/10 from me, because i liked it, but it could have easily been a 9/10 movie. Here are some of my ideas how it could have been improved:
1)The flashback should have been shortened and it should unfold durning the course of the movie aāla āDuck you suckerā. And the voiceover durining it should have been left out
2)Some unnecessary scenes shouldāve been cut and the pacing of some of the other scenes shouldāve been slowed down, because sometimes this movie feels like itās running on fast forward -thereās too much going on [i noticed some of DāAmatoās output form the 70s suffers from the same problem eg. Death smiles at murder or Buio Omega].
3)Whatās the point of all the scenes involving dog? They feel out of place and are clearly an attempt to cash on Zanna Bianca movies.
4)Spoilers The movie with itās Cain and Abel story needed a bad ending, the original one is too family friendly for my liking. Too bad, because the build-up was nice
This one was really enjoyable. Great character drama and very fast pace. Guido Mannari was great as the villain/not villain? I wouldnāt actually call him a villain so much as an antagonist.
An above-average spaghetti western in my book despite the somewhat tedious Zanna Bianca content. Also it sports a finally large role for the only Dane that ever starred in a spaghetti western, Lars Bloch, as Testiās sidekick. But yes, as stated above a more negative ending wouldnāt have hurt this movie one bit.
Finally saw this. I was quite excited, being a major Joe DāAmato fan, but I was kind of let down. First off, I donāt like Fabio Testi as an actor. Secondly, it definitely not really the down and dirty spaghetti western, but more an snowy adventure movie (definitely a lot better than White Fang To the Rescue at least.) All in all, it wasnāt bad, but I was just expecting more.
Iād forgotten about this one - I got it on vid a fair while back and Iād been meaning to watch it (if only for Lynn Frederick). Iāll put it to the top of my āto watch pileā and get back ā¦
One of the better āfrozen northā adventures Iāve seen I think although definitely a family friendly afternoon type of film. Testi suits the hero Mountie role and the double villains of Robert Hundar and Guido Mannari work well. The flash back stuff wasnāt so good and the schmaltzy ending was a disappointment certainly but I guess it fitted the general style of the film. Of course, Iām a sucker for a snowy landscape so I am probably more forgiving of these types of films than some. But, all in all, an enjoyable little film. Even the kid wasnāt too annoying.
I picked up the movie on You Tube. The copy has surprisingly good image & sound quality
The film - while being far from great - isnāt too bad either, I enjoyed it for what itās worth, a decent western-adventure-movie set in the North
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