Can I ask who the producer is of this film.
No-one is credited as producer but:
(a) The Arrow Blu Ray booklet, written by Howard Hughes, claims it is Alexander Hacohen, who also produced Black Jack
(b) This SWDB database entry clams it is Gino Rossi, someone whose name I cannot find on an internet search
(c) the Italian wikipedia entry claims it is Fabrizio Gianni
Any other takers?
Greetings everyone! Been gone quite a while, but I have returned to this awesome forum. Never stopped watching spaghettis, but long story short life got in the way of me spending much time online. Glad to be back!
Anyways, I just rewatched El Puro, and in good quality for the first time thanks to the Savage Guns box. Still one of the best spaghettis I’ve ever seen, when I get an updated top 20 together it’ll definitely be in my top 10. I’m not very familiar with Mulargia outside of this one, do any of his other films even approach El Puro in quality?
Not really. Here’s some discussion & rating about Mulargia’s films.
Not really, El puro was a not expected surprise for me after having watched most of the then better known Mulargias.
But another not so well known one who has some style is Go with God, Gringo. His 2nd best for me.
From the rest Don’t Wait, Django…Shoot! and maybe Why Go on Killing?.
The only really bad one is Brother Outlaw, a fidanesque genre entry.
I forgot about Shango, I have seen that one. I found it pretty mediocre, I’ve never really liked Steffen in anything
I rate and rank them like this, but I obviously have a wide 7/10 rating category since El Puro has so much more depth and overall quality (thanks to Robert Woods own contribution to the story ?) including the main musical theme by Alessandro Alessandroni , than the second and third Mulargia directed, but I enjoy these anyhow mostly for their style and music by Di Stefano. Chamango suffers from the overdramatic child sequenses.
12 El Puro (8/10)
42 Don’t Wait Django… Shoot! (Edoardo Mulargia) music Felice Di Stefano 1967 (7/10)
43 Go With God, Gringo (Edoardo Mulargia) music Felice Di Stefano 1966 (7/10)
67 Cjamango (Edoardo Mulargia) music Felice Di Stefano 1967 (6/10)
I appreciate the feedback! I’ll give Go With God, Gringo & Don’t Wait Django a try soon.
Good film with interesting characters. Robert Woods is amazing.
Anyway, why does Gypsy look like Gaston from The Beauty and the Beast? 
Watched this last night. As usual, some great posts from many years ago in here. Surprised (and happy) to have stumbled across it.
After Black Jack last week, I’m on a bit of a Robert Woods binge and caught El Puro. Headed into the flick blind so wasn’t sure what to expect. Spoilers ahead!
Well wow, it was a total surprise. I feel like El Puro is an extremely polarising movie. Noticed lots of very negative views on the film listing off all of the issues - the story, the extreme slowness, the lack of explanations, the gay kiss, the bleak and darkness of the film, the lack of action and gunplay, the brutal death scene - and more…
However, all of those things are the main reasons I loved the film, to be honest. It was different and unique compared to many others. It was purposely slow (at times painfully slow) and I don’t think I’ve witnessed that before in a SW. Especially combined with a lack of action. But I liked it. I also liked the way in which the gang were built up as these horrendous monsters. Oh and Rosalba Neri playing Rosie was nice, I recognised her instantly having watched Killer, Adios a few nights ago!
I usually highlight bad dubbing so I have to credit good dubbing, it seemed better than most. Also, a user named Carlos mentioned that some of the duels were a little weak in the latter stages and I’d agree. The final 5 or so minutes could have been a little stronger and more impactful (especially El Puro’s death). Also if we’re going to show a gay kiss between Cassidy and Gypsy, then when Cassidy gets killed in the final duel, why aren’t we seeing some sort of reaction from Gypsy, we got nothing. I wanted something. I wanted a camera shot to Gypsies face, I wanted anything.
The biggest strength? I think it was the ghost town effect. The idea of having this set in a ghost town was genius imo. As another user stated, it meant all focus went on the main characters and story. We had no distraction. It fit perfectly.
Score was great, albeit similar to others of the same era. But I didn’t “get” or like the little kid that was protecting El Puro and the entire point of that sub plot but oh well.
Overall though, 9/10. Maybe even a 9.5.
This film is not bad, but not great either.
You know the story, a former pistolero, now an alcoholic, hangs out in a shanty town. He befriends one of the saloon prostitutes. And there is also an old mexican dude who is some kind of friend.
An odd collection of characters are out to get Puro. Their leader Gypsy is crazy about this for some reason. These are not your usual SW bandidos, they are more like some arrogant big city gangsters.
The idea of a worn-out former gunfighter who needs to get in shape again is more something out of a US western I think. Is there any other SW with this premise?
I like the atmosphere and the film doesn’t feel slow in a bad way. It’s unusual, it doesn’t have much true SW content really apart from the score and a few other things. Worth seeing though and much better than many other of the very cheap SWs.
I just watched the ugly version version on you tube and it convinced me. I think, i’ll have to order the arrow version for the full entertainment.
It is a rather tragic film, especially what happens to Rosalba Neri’s character of course.
That man on the cart that the mexican dude turned over to the sheriff, it is never explained if the mexican was the one who beat him up and broke his arm? Neither where he got him from, or did I miss this?
