[quote=āSilence, post:1, topic:1609ā]I will soon watch this movie, is it a good one? Will There be more info about it in the database?[/quote]Havenāt you read āthe worst sw Youāve seenā-topic?
No, itās not a good one. Definitely one of the worst films of the genre.
Nothing to do with that. I think some VHS company came up with āTake Another Hard Rideā title, before that it was just Kid Vengeance. Lee Van Cleef is a bad indian in this one, Leif Garrett of Godās Gun āfameā stars. Not a good film but I have seen worse. 2 stars.
Good luck to you :o
I havenāt.
Yes, I have read that topic, but I liked the intro sequence so I wanted to give it a go.
Ahh OK. Thats just an alt. title they gave it. Thanks for the info!
Apparantly the selected reviewer on IMDB liked itā¦
Surprisingly original, almost unknown........., 7 July 2008 Author: merklekranz from United StatesSeek this one out if you are looking for a different kind of Lee Van Cleef āspaghetti westernā. Definitely on a par with his lesser westerns like āDeath Rides a Horseā, but inferior to āThe Big Gundownāā¦
on par with ā¦lesserā¦ westerns like DRAH? WTF is this guy smoking?? Good ole IMDBā¦
LOL @ lesser westerns like DRAH. Thats why I dont bother with IMDB very often. This site is for the actual aficionados of SWs. IMDB is a bunch of loons.
Kid Vengeance isnāt good at all. I bought it on a dollar dvd with Godās Gun. I watched Godās Gun which isnāt as bad as everyone says but then I tried to watch Kid Vengeanceā¦ shortly after I turned if off because it sucked. A few months later I had nothing to watch so I forced myself to watch it. The best part is Lee Van Cleef and thats it. Sorry if you paid more than $1 for it!
Iām a huge LVC fan. Hell, heās the reason why I got interested in SWās in the first place. But I have yet to have the misfortune of seeing this movie and I donāt intend to anytime soon.
It is horrible. Interesting Israeli locations are only good factor. Terrible acting all around actually. Poorly made and minor.
I wrote this a while ago for Fistful of Pasta, but it has all been quiet on the pasta front lately, so I could close a gap with the (slightly altered) review:
https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Kid_Vengeance_Review
When Iām done with all the other spaghettis, Iāll give it a watch.
lee van cleef the bad guy? and the litle kid the avenger??? LOL!!!
As with Godās Gun, Kid Vengeance really isnāt all that bad! Itās not going to rival The Good, the Bad & the Ugly for my affections anytime soon, in fact Iām not sure when or if Iāll ever watch it again, but it wasnāt White Fang and the Hunter bad. It wasnāt Apache Blood bad. It wasnāt White Comanche bad (I canāt keep using White Comanche as a yardstick for crapness; the more I think of it, the more fond I am of it, in a ābad movieā sense, you know?). If theyād gone the Death Rides a Horse route or the Once Upon a Time in the West route or the God-knows-how-many-other-Spag-revenge-tales route and had the wronged kid grow up to be a bad-ass agent of death before extracting his revenge on his parentsā murderers, it would probably have been a fair bit more acceptable. As it is, itās hard to root for a schoolchild. Unless you ARE a schoolchild, I suppose. But if you ARE a schoolkid, Kid Vengeance really shouldnāt be the film for you, given that itās actually quite a nasty piece with its murders, rape, and colourful picking-offs of the bad guys. In that sense, Leif Garrett was a little like a juvenile Predator or something. āKid Predator: KREDATOR!ā Hang on, āCreditorā? Not much of a title. Oh well. So Iām not sure who the movie was really aimed at. Leif Garrettās no Clint Eastwood, no Tomas Milian, no Gianni Garko. But anyone who would see him that way would be too young for the film. Bah, whatever. It wasnāt that bad, that much I DO know. I mean it WAS pretty rubbish, but nowhere near as bad as I was steeling myself for. And Lee Van Cleefās hair didnāt quite go to Godās Gun levels on the LVC MadHair-O-Meter. Close but no cigar, as they say.
Itās not easy to determine whether Kid Vengeance actually qualifies as a Spaghetti Western ā¦
ā¢ No, there wasnāt any Italian involvement production-wise: IMDb, German and Italian Wikipedia, TCM, BFI.
ā¢ Yes, there was: SWDb, English Wikipedia, Kevin Grant (p. 467).
The fact that the film doesnāt have an entry in ANICAās Archive of Italian Cinema might be a crucial indicator. But the information on ANICAās website is of course anything but reliable.
They have Red Sun under the US flag!
For Giustiās dictionary this is a USA/Israel/Italy co-production, in any case we are talking about a really minor participation with music by Francesco De Masi and Pier Vittorio Marchi as Art Director.
http://www.cinematografo.it/cinedatabase/cast/pier-vittorio-marchi/77259/
If Release Info on IMDb is correct (see below), it is interesting to note that the movie was submitted to Italian censorship a lot sooner and authorized for public showing at the end of October 1976 with VM14 rating.
So, whatās your opinion? Since no Italian production company was involved, shouldnāt it be listed in the database as an American-Israeli Western and on the forum be moved to the Western board? By the way, it can be watched on YouTube.
Strictly speaking the movie isnāt a SW: what I meant to say is that maybe having been released ten months earlier than in the USA in terms of target market there was a particular focus on Italy.
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