Lola Colt (Siro Marcellini, 1967)

[Mickey13]

Copied from the Spagvemberfest 2022 thread:

@Mickey13

In the end, I got pretty much the kind of farrago I had anticipated: the gallimaufry features a musical part sporting the black heroine, Lola’s character arc adumbrating some vestiges of a revenge motif, a bit of a romance/drama plotline in which Peter Martell takes part as well as more of a regular western storyline about an imperious landlord terrorizing the local town, all of which is rolled into one big flapjack of a motion picture, the final result is as flat as a flapjack too. In addition to the aforesaid so-so mixture, the movie has some middling directing plus an unremarkable soundtrack both of which affirm work’s humdrum stature.

The style is reminiscent of the kind of stuff you would see in those Americanized, early period genre examples: not particularly bad, but nothing outstandingly original or memorable either. The latter factor accounts for why this outing is not especially absorbing to watch; simply put, this whole potpourri might have worked better on the purely poppy level if it had boasted a more flamboyant rendition and finish. At the end of the day, it just gets bogged down in its stillborn attempts at fusing all these divergent themes, eventually lacking both in terms of style and substance.