Fifteen Scaffolds for a Killer / The Dirty Fifteen / 15 forche per un assassino (Nunzio Malasomma, 1967)

Was about to say the same thing!

Cheers guys - I think weā€™re sorted ;D

does any one know were to get a good copy of this film here in the u.s.a? do not have much to spend!

Read the above posts again and ā€¦ :slight_smile:

Re-watched this one over the weekend and I believe it has gone up a couple of pegs in my favorites.
In fact, I think I like this one just as much as I do my other Craig Hill favorite, I WANT HIM DEAD.
I love SWā€™s that, for me, get better with each viewing!

[quote=ā€œChris_Casey, post:45, topic:1288ā€]Re-watched this one over the weekend and I believe it has gone up a couple of pegs in my favorites.
In fact, I think I like this one just as much as I do my other Craig Hill favorite, I WANT HIM DEAD.
I love SWā€™s that, for me, get better with each viewing![/quote]

Yes, I agree this is becoming a fave to me too.
Iā€™ve discuss about the genre with Brazilian writer Cesar Almeida, he actually consider this one as one of his top 10 all time favorites. Iā€™ll disclosure his top choices in my blog soon.

Finally managed to view the fandub of this one, and so the second viewing for me. Some good scenes, but also found some a little protracted. Do not usually find long scenes in forts claustrophbic but I did here alot of the time, but enjoyed the end scenes at the fort. The two main leads were lacking chemistry together for me. Made me laugh one moment they are trying to kill each other, then best mates again. Prefer Martin usually in his earlier westerns and Hill has been better than this.

Just finished watching the WE version tonight. I donā€™t know that I can add anything that hasnā€™t already been said. Worst Scottish accent Iā€™ve ever heardā€¦ever!

Hadnā€™t watched a SW for quite some timeā€¦and I canā€™t say that this was the best choice to start back in on. Back on the slushpile with this one!

Finally watched this one last night 3 years after Silver sent me a better version than the one I previously ownedā€¦ thanks Silver :slight_smile:
I donā€™t know why Iā€™d left it so long though, probably thought Iā€™d seen it maybe?

Anyway - thoroughly enjoyable film with the flaws as mentioned by others. The final shootout inside the fort was suitably bonkers, the exposing of the real murderer/rapist was too easy though. The George Martin attempted rape before he thinks heā€™s gonna get killed is weird, especially as she forgives him in that sugary-sweet and unneccesary epiloque.
Jose Manuel Martin was great as a lapsed reverend, and got some marvellous lines and a chicita on each arm at one point - and I donā€™t understand why most people seem to generally dislike Hillā€™s parts in spaghetti-land (I think heā€™s rather good in all Iā€™ve seen).
The Almerian landscape looks marvellous in this as well.

Flawed but enjoyableā€¦ 3 anā€™ a bit rounded down for Susy Andersenā€™s weird Scottish/Irish accent.

Another one I had seen some years ago but didnā€™t remember a thing about. Itā€™s a pretty good one with potential to be one of the better ones but it has some flaws. What makes the film interesting is that thereā€™s no real hero in it, Craig Hill is the main character but heā€™s anti-hero, bandit and not very likable. Absence of hero is also a problem for the story because the idea is that Hillā€™s and Martinā€™s group is chased for the crime they didnā€™t commit but since theyā€™re bandits and killers you donā€™t really care if they get hanged anyway. Stupidity of the villagers posse was unbelievable at times.

5/10

I thought she sounded more like russian/eastern european.

ā€œrussian/eastern europeanā€ sounds remarkably ā€œScottish/Irishā€ when cider is involved. :wink:

Iā€™ve had another listen - itā€™s meant to be Scottish almost certainly, but itā€™s quite badly done and sounds a bit of Irish brogue-y as well. Not East European though (at least on the version I got) I reckon. And no cider tonight to confuse things ā€¦ only lots of ale :slight_smile:

That certainly was much appreciated in Francoist Spainā€¦ :slightly_smiling_face:

Eleonora Brown plays Anne and not Liz (I corrected the Database, but IMDb is still wrong).

http://mariamontez.org/mmgracia2.html

I can hardly say that I found Fifteen Scaffolds For A Killer/The Dirty Fifteen specially good (maybe not bad either) after my first watching this evening but not unintersesting.
Craig Hill was slightly better though in this movie than in the ā€œcrow SWā€ I watched yesterday from the same Wild East release.
It was a rather unusual story and sometimes bad editing, especially at one point in the late stage battle at the Mexican fort. A really foolish fist fight near the end could have been cut out. The music was not so good either only sometimes.

But I did like the locations. It begins at/near one of my favorite locations (I havenā€™t been there yet), just 3 km west-southwest of the peak Cerro San Pedro near Colmenar Viejo north of Madrid. The ranch where they steal horses probably was at the location of one of the buldings now existing. Copy and paste the link.
www.google.se/maps/place/La+Pedriza/@40.7221674,-3.7453257,71a,35y,51.84h,78.43t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0xd416500a88f2d41:0xc966cd716dd47529!8m2!3d40.772523!4d-3.870032

Then, after a very short visit to the dunes of Cabo de Gata during the opening credits, there was lot of riding in the ramblas of the Tabernas desierto.
Then we visit another ranch at what is called La Pedriza in these cases, also known as the Nieves Navarro ranch in The Big Gundown.
The first western town I didnā€™t recognise, but later they shot several scenes in Mini Hollywood. ā€¦and more.
And where was the location of the Mexican fort ? Possibly somewhere north-east of Tabernas pueblo, if at all near Tabernas area ?

I will have to see this SW again for rating purpose and some entertaining.

Watching the second time 6 days later, I am now more confused about the second ranch which rather appears to also have been located near the Colmenar Viejo hill with its Cerro San Pedro but they never show the peak itself this time and other details point at Comenar Viejo as well and probably not La Pedriza.

The first western town seems to be the vanished Colmenar Viejo western town, which would be logical.

Itā€™s the same ranch as at the beginning of the film with George Martinā€™s men rustling the cattle - itā€™s just filmed from a different angle.

Yes that seems plausible. Around 33 minutes in my DVD the after chasing scene (in Tabernas desert) they reappear at the farm and this time a shot shows in the background the Colmenar Viejo mountain in a slightly misty view.
And that angle seems to correspond to about the same ranches as the two (or rather one) in the beginning.

So all the scenes so far (33 min) should be shot near Comenar Viejo and Tabernas, I guess + Mini Hollywood.

At 53.19 several details from the scene indicate that the Mexican fort may have been located 0.9 km west of the Tabernas castle. However (as in ESPERANZA case) some of the background hills to the right of the "castle hill (castle not visible) donā€™t seem to match but google maps 3D cannot reach ground level which might explain the discrepancy.

www.google.se/maps/place/04200+Tabernas,+Almer%C3%ADa,+Spanien/@37.0503231,-2.4065979,47a,35y,86.76h,77.68t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0xd7aa685f8c28017:0x9b6e0d38e6357868!8m2!3d37.0516792!4d-2.3900546

The fort isnā€™t in the Tabernas area, but I can check that location for you tomorrow from a book by a friend which specialises on the Madrid and Northern SW locations.

That would be nice ! (The google view I referred to was supposed to be ā€œshotā€ from the fort looking at the riders attacking it.)

OK
The area is Ciempozuelos - las salinas espartinas - South east of Madrid. The Fort appears to be the ruins of a convent.

Canā€™t scan this for you ā€¦ but the book is called ā€˜El cine del oeste, en la comunidad de Madridā€™ by Javier Ramos Altamira.