Four Candles for My Colt / Un colt por cuatro cirios (Ignacio F. Iquino, 1971)

[Mickey13]

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@Mickey13

Aside from having a decent story at its core, the movie works well as a kind of Fidanesque comedy and essentially goes off the rails in a spectacular fashion, eventually becoming an entertaining trainwreck of sorts. The issue here dwells in that every single character is on the brink of assaulting anybody standing next to them and if they do not happen to glower and murmur menacingly at their interlocutors, they bawl, tug at one another, push each other around, throw punches and engage in the most over-the-top exchanges and fisticuffs possible. This lunacy never seems to end which results in a cavalcade of absurd situations and causes the film to spiral into pure idiocy.

I thought Tomas was hyperbolizing when describing the movie during one of the previous Spagvemberfests, but no, that’s just the way this flick is, the histrionics are so absurdly exaggerated it genuinely becomes a sort of comedy disguised as a western, but without any of the habitual slapstick you would expect in a seventies affair, thus coming to constitute something more along the lines of a clandestine burlesque. Some people are bound to hate it by reason of its firmly bipolar or rather unipolar nature, but to my way of thinking, this characteristic at the very least endues the work with a very distinctive quality and makes it kind of unique even if it is indubitably not that good on a purely technical level.