In the French audio version available on YouTube under the title Mallory ‘M’ comme la mort, the arbitrarily cut part of the final confrontation (approximately 25 seconds) has been reinstated from a lower quality source.
My Name Is Mallory certainly belongs to the small circle of Robert Woods’ worst SWs, together with the unmatched Six Bounty Killers for a Massacre and Four Candles for Garringo. Sam Wallash/Savage Guns in terms of enjoyability is in my opinion clearly superior to the three films mentioned above.
Actually, I like Four Candles for Garringo best out of these mentioned films, the most hysterical of them all, in both senses of the word BTW. Everybody in it acts as though they were high on PCP.
The completely out of context cavalry ingredient made the dish rather indigestible for me…
Returning to the ending of Mallory Must Not Die, if nothing else those unexpected and crazy freeze frames underlined by music add a certain originality to the scene, while in the cut version we see a man with several bullets in his body strangling a person in just a few seconds.
Watched this a couple of months ago and the only thing I remember is Robert Woods’ cute braid that keeps invading my thoughts more often I’d like to admit.
God damnit I actually enjoyed it. I’m not trying to purposely go against the grain here, I just think I’m going to struggle to dislike a Robert Wood film at this rate. Also helped that the YouTube version I watched was very easy on the eye. Minor spoilers ahead.
6/10. Maybe a 6.5 or even a 7 if the final showdown wasn’t as hilarious as it was. 7 might be pushing it actually.
It’s slow, the dialogue and overall delivery of said dialogue is pretty poor, the story is basic, there’s not a great deal of action at all, the soundtrack was repeated and boring throughout, but I thought the positives were pretty strong.
I liked the brother/sister dynamic and relationship as the runtime wore on. I thought Teodoro Corra played the villain perfectly and I was actively invested in his downfall. I didn’t mind the romance angle at all, it was more subtle than most. The locations were different, lots of green, wide open fields, we even got to see some cow herding. The fist fight scenes seemed well made. The gunfight scenes (albeit rare) seemed well made, I also liked the showdowns that Wood’s character had. I also liked his “no bullshit” persona here.
It does lean away from the traditional spaghetti western model but I’m fine with it.
I have to watch it with the english dub. The german dub is really unprofessional and hard to listen to. There is no rhythm in the voices and no pronouncing in single words. Never heard something similar. All other SWs with german dub are really fine and professional made. This one is really outstanding in a bad way.
