Got round to watching my Blu of this last night and really liked it. Definitely one of the slower euro-westerns but I think it was more interested in telling a good story about a good character who was played well by Quinn. In that regard I think it succeeded. It was great to see Quinn in a euro-western I actually liked as well having seen Deaf Smith… but not caring for it. I also loved seeing Bronson as a villain…just wish he had more screen-time.
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Screens in 70mm (English with swedish Subtitles) at the Arsenal in Berlin on December 6
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The Warner Bros UK BluRay is now available on Amazon for £14.99
Bataille de San Sebastian, La/BluRay - The Spaghetti Western Database (spaghetti-western.net)
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I caught a fair chunk of this on TV yesterday. Quinn gave a real empathetic performance, giving some heavy Tommy Lee Jones vibes from it. I don’t have much of a stomach for narratives that villify indigenous groups (one of the reasons I don’t much care for classic American westerns), and the part I saw seemed rife with it. So, I doubt I’ll seek it back out to catch the rest of it.
I agree, however, the Eurowestern/Spaghetti Western genre generally presented a positive view of Native Americans.
The Europeans revitalised and reinvented the genre, which had become moribund and stale. Both the American and European version of the genre were mythological; however, the classic Hollywood western genre, with its vilification of Native Americans and pure distortion of American frontier history, is, for me, utterly discredited.
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