Personally I donāt find that the film lacks cohesion as Phil says in his interesting Review. And to my way of thinking the pre-credits sequence is not āan inexplicable episode that has no obvious connection with anything else in the filmā and is easily explained with the $ 4,000 in Confederate currency that Clayton brings with him to buy land.
As regards the ending, which I really like and which - as evidenced by the Italian version of Lida Luās song* - implies some sort of godsend, it should be noted that, aside from the idea of Russian roulette that not everyone can find fully convincing, it remains perfectly plausible: there was no everyone against each other here; rather, everyone against the traitor played by Francisco Nieto.
Maybe not below average, but very average to me, I remember it being a huge disappointment. It didnāt lack cohesion, it was pretty coherent, but it lacked something to come up to my expectations.
A quite solid revenge spaghetti western if you ask me. To me Craig Hill didnāt feel like a very charismatic gunman in the leading role and I liked him more for example in Tonino Valeriiās Taste for Killing (1968). Also Paolo Bianchiniās directing style felt quite average at times even though there are a couple of nice and stylish scenes too, for instance I really liked the opening title shots for this movie, excellent use of different colors there!
The part that I liked most about this movie was Nico Fidencoās soundtrack and especially that beautiful theme track sang by Lida Lu.[url]Nico Fidenco ft. Lida Lu -- Clayton - YouTube That theme song alone is a good example why I love this genre so much: even though the movie itself follows a quite basic revenge plot, things like great scenery and a stylish soundtrack help the movie a lot in the end. It seems like I got to watch more SWs with Fidencoās soundtrack because I also enjoyed his work on Taste of Killing and In a Coltās Shadow.
All in all I Want Him Dead feels like a quite basic SW to me, but a good soundtrack and nice scenery lift this movie above the average. 3 stars out of 5.
Anyone got English subs for this? I would love to watch it as Craig Hill is one of my favourite spaghetti actors, but the Koch disc isnāt English friendly.
There is a widescreen edition released by a Brazilian company. It has English audio. There is one copy left on amazon.com, which is why itās quite expensive. If you donāt mind bootlegs, the Cult Action DVD is very good quality (even though it is fullscreen) and has English audio.
Not sure. All I can say is that the Brazilian print looks remastered - Koch Media-like quality. The Cult Action bootleg is also very good picture quality despite the fullscreen presentation. I have both.
If someone can help me find out how to post screen shots, Iāll be able to show you. All I can say is that if you are prepared to pay the price, you wonāt be disappointed with the Brazilian DVD but thereās only one copy up for grabs. If you canāt get that one, the Cult Action bootleg is the second best English audio version that I know of.
Rutledal told me how, so Iāll be able to post some for you guys. You can also check out the screen shots for Cult Actionās El Puro DVD on my posts if anyone is interested.
[quote=āRutledal, post:76, topic:967ā]5-Movie Bloodiest Westerns from Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, but I have no idea of the quality.
Iād rather get subs and buy the Koch disc because then at least I know what Iām getting. The last Brazilian disc I got was very disappointing.[/quote]
I can promise you that the Brazilian disc is as good as any Koch Media release Iāve come across. Iāll get some screenshots for you.
Iām British and I ordered it from rareimports on amazon.com. Theyāll ship to the UK but not the continent? Strange indeed! Iām getting the screen shots from both my Brazilian DVD and the Cult Action DVD for you to see anyway.
