I think that the SW\Giallo mix works very well I liked this one very much.
This might also be Frank Brana’s best role in any SW.
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Howdy @Dorado, nice to see you’re still around.
Hi Mickey13.
I have been absent a few years rom the forum I used to be pretty active in here but I have had other things to do in recent years but now i’m back.
Yeah, I remember, it’s just nice to see members from the early days of the forum still hanging around here. Either way, welcome back man.
If your thinking of watching SPAGHETTI WESTERN Kill the Poker Player (1972) Don,t…What a load of burnt beans if you know what i mean lol
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I watched this recently. I found it boring if I’m being honest, but the snakes / murder mystery aspect actually remains with me so I can’t fault the film.
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Watching this at the moment on YouTube - it’s fairly enjoyable - a sort of “snakes on a Spaghetti Western”.
The fight scene in the saloon was a riot and me and my daughter were laughing out loud at the beatings,fisticuffs and people flying around.
Looking forward to finishing the movie this afternoon hopefully.
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Started watching this on UK Amazon Prime then realised there are 2 different versions of this, both on You Tube and both in English.
Both versions run the same time but one has Spanish credits and is at 25pfs and the other (the Prime version) is titled Creeping Death, has English credits and runs 91m30 at 24fps. The one with Spanish credits appears to run 97m but actually the end 10m is a repeat of the beginning of the movie. The Italian censor clocks 102m but it may never have been released at that length.
In the ‘97m’ version with Spanish credits the opening credits come up about 7m into the film after the two robbers have been killed by the rubber snakes.
In the other version, titled Creeping Death the opening credits come up immediately over the two corpses and then follow Woods until he speaks to the couple making out in a covered wagon. At this point, the narrative introduces the bank robber who appears in the first scene in the longer version and we then watch what is the first 6m or so of the longer version. After the two robbers are killed this cuts to the scene of the couple trying to escape up a hill from the sheriff’s posse and the two films are now in synch.
This is basically a murder-mystery like Killer Calibre Killer Adios and The Price of Death although the main character is a government agent. I thought it was dreary with too many drawing room discussions and an incomprehensible plot which made no sense and had a couple of laugh-out-loud deaths by snake. I think the filmmakers knew this as the chief villain admits at the end that he over-engineered everything and should have just shot the hero when he was in a jail cell. Robert Woods wears a odd black toupee which makes his face look very gaunt. With this film, I have now watched all of Nieves Navarro’s westerns.
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I have had to re-write my previous pose because I discovered upon finishing the movie that the two versions had the same running time.
Gave it another go today and thought it very enjoyable, the movie has grown on me it seems, didn’t like it much the first time I saw it. It still looks like Bianchi’s project which is to say the whole enchilada appears rather drab and dingy across the board, yet for all that and perhaps through that, it acquires a certain trashy charm along the line which goes well with the story, which riveted my attention throughout.
The flick develops in a low-key manner which aids the atmosphere of mystery and corresponds with yarn’s overall character, plus the foursome of suspects makes for a colorful bunch. Certainly nothing of interest to newcomers, but seasoned fans fond of low-budgeted, scuzzy spaghettis should get their kicks from it all right: it looks the part and the plot it furnishes is sophisticated enough for it to outstrip a vast majority of spaghettis from the same period.
I definitely see myself revisiting it yet another time, a very pleasant movie to doze off to and most certainly not the shabbiest spag offering of the 1970s that you could chance upon, possibly Bianchi’s best western too.
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