In the Wild East release, the sliced hand shows up at the 40:37 mark, according to the counter on my player, right after the knife has gone into the hand but there is no blood to be seen and the fingers are curled. At the 40:51 mark, you see Mr. Sliced Hand get shot and you can see the blood running down his wrist, but his hand is out of shot above the top of the screen. At the 41:06 mark, the bloody knife is retrieved from the post it has been thrown into but Mr. Sliced Hand is no longer attached to it, the knife apparently having sliced through the rest of his hand as he fell to the ground after being shot.
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Thanks!
What happens next can be seen at 40:43 in the version posted here by morgan a number of years ago (Reply#166).
However, we must not forget that this cut includes a chaste version of the bathtub scene and is completely missing the killing during the final shootout of which I have spoken above, subjected to censorship (1:33:35)
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I see now! Yes, the knife slicing through the hand is definitely not seen in the Wild East release and I agree that it definitely should be added to any future release.
The Greek PAL VHS tape does not have the body sliding against the wall, nor the bloody hand
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Brilliant music and an offbeat spaghetti just like Tinto Brass’ Yankee.
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Duel in the Eclipse has been updated to the new layout (3.0). Let us know if you can add anything: pictures, posters, trivia, facts, figures, links, etc…
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New poll on this one too, guys. Top of the page as usual.
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Just watched this one for the first time. Not sure what was going on with the leopard print poncho, but otherwise I really liked the mythos the protagonist (Logan) creates in exacting his revenge (as if he is some kind of otherworldly character). The setup for this could be better, but it’s such a fun gimmick that I didn’t want to question it too much.
Also an interesting turn in narrative structure by having the main villains disappear one by one and the protagonist choosing to reveal how each one died to Carranza in flashbacks, which further builds and punctuates the mythology just before the final showdown under the eclipse.
Plus, gotta love Fernando Sancho playing Fernando Sancho. Though he plays the same type of villain so many movies, it never gets old to me.
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Was looking for a higher quality version of the poster with the lady and the gun and found this high quality one on ebay
This is the best I’ve found of the one I was searching for
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There was an excellent marketing team for this movie.
Requiem for the Gringo is a delightfully trashy, almost dreamlike Chorizo Western in which a civil war ex-soldier, sporting a leopard-print poncho and a passion for astronomy, is forced to avenge his brother’s death by taking on a rogues’ gallery of spaghetti western villains, each more stereotypical than the last: the greedy Mexican boss, the deadly gunslinger dressed head-to-toe in black, the shady gambler who’s always hiding something, and the bloodthirsty so American Native madman.
The story (if you can call it that) is complete rubbish, and calling it “formulaic” would be an understatement. But the film has something that eventually sweeps you along through the sheer magnetism of its imagery: Fernando Sancho as the eternal Mexican bandit chief, seen through a multicoloured lattice; Aldo Sambrell in a wig, repeatedly popping in a set of silver dental caps; the absurdly rope duel with its brutal payoff… There are scenes where the cinematography and composition rise well above the average for a European western, even if that means throwing narrative logic completely out the window (“Logic? In a spaghetti western?”).
The only real criticism I can level at it is that there isn’t really a clear protagonist (or at least I couldn’t find one). The narrative focus is spread fairly evenly between the hero and the villains, while the script works hard to present the hero as mysterious, taciturn, almost ghost-like (Django, look what you’ve done). As a result, this character never really develops, and by the time the story reaches its more intense final stretch, his motivations have become frustratingly vague, just when they ought to matter most.
Maybe I’m overthinking a spaghetti western.
The endlessly drawn-out final zoom-in/zoom-out (I guess someone didn’t learn a shit from Sergio Leone) is priceless.
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Lang Jeffries (who played the lead dressed in that ridiculous leopard poncho) did a string of eurospy movies before this one, a genre for which he was better suited.
Agente X 1-7 operazione Oceano (1965) and Il nostro agente a Casablanca (1966), among others.
He also did the sci-fi movie Mission Stardust (1967) together with swedish actress Essy Persson, an italian-west german-spanish-monaco co-production.
The theme to Mission Stardust written by familiar SW-composer Marcello Giombini, with vocals by Edda Dell’Orso and I Cantori Moderni.
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Great theme tune. Will have to try out the movie. Looks like it could be craptastic