In Death At Owell Rock Mark Damon looks like his Ferguson character from Requiescant, and the lighthearted scenes are only early in the film, so it is promising.
The crime theme is simple, but complicated executed, still entertaining. The music is occasionally really good with the traditional trumpets, especially in the last several minutes.
The Italian locations are the usual for example the Western town Cinecitta and Mexican pueblo also at Cinecitta (both connected).
I rate it as another solid 6/10. Probably not enough engaging or special for a 7/10 IMO.
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Saw this for the first time today (Koch Media DVD) and was surprised at how poor this was although a number of Fredaās films, in my experience, are inevitably sloppy.
Continuity and geography errors galore, confusing and abrupt transitions, ridiculous scenes. The humour appeared deliberate at first but then disappeared. One murder scene is lit like a Bava movie but the killer is obvious anyway so thereās no point. The epilogue is bizarre with Damon in the middle of the town street but one step forwards and he is in the middle of the countryside! Even one of the documentaries cut to Stephen Forsyth when the presenter started talking about Mark Damon!
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Nicely made movie with good actors and beautiful musical score but also with a rather weak plot.
I also think it would work better if it was not so lighthearted at places and Forsyth and Damon swapped their roles. 3/5
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I absolutely adore Mark Damon. He had a more ācasualā cowboy look and personality in this one and oozed class and masculinity. He was excellent.
With that said - 4.5/10. Thatās where the positives mainly end.
First half seemed entirely different to the second, with the first being lighthearted and whimsical in nature and then things just suddenly leant into the more serious mystery theme. Didnāt love either.
āComplicated executionā was posted by the user Runner in April 2021 and I would strongly agree.
As a side note, Iām not an expert on the voice actors but I feel like Iāve heard the voice actor that worked on Pamela Tudors scenes so many times. Very familiar voice. Maybe it was Pamelaās voice and Iāve just seen her quite a few times now, I donāt know.
Edit - forgot to mention there was a pretty brutal horse scene towards the end. Didnāt enjoy that.
Wasnāt āPamela Tudorā Italian though? No-one seems to know anything about her although she appeared in about 20 films and she stopped making films in the early 1970s.
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I tend to apply the name āTudorā to Romanian culture to be honest, but after a quick google itās saying the name is Welsh!
But maybe she is Italian as you note. And after a quick check of SWDB, the database suggests she is British, which ties in with the Welsh connection.
Iām sure one of us is right!
Wikipedia says Italian, too. ā¦
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Thereās a posting here against her bio which says sheās British and real name Pamela Eddy but no source is quoted.
Iāve always assumed āPamela Tudorā is an alias and she was Italian or at least Italian based (as she is in Italian movies rather than the Spanish ones). She appeared in 20 movies between 1965-1971 then disappeared. Iāve not heard anyone mention her in the interviews/extras on the DVDs of her movies Iāve seen. Donāt think Fabio Melelli says anything about her in the intro to the Koch DVD of Owell Rock.
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