Cool, hereās a short summary if you want to add it in:
Jotsy the beautiful bank robber, along with Dan, Pedro and Roberto are a gang of bandits famous for their robberies. Sheriff Clayon pursues them night and day with the slogan of āTraiganlos vivos o muertosā (āBring them alive or deadā).
Watched the first 10 minutes of El juez de la soga 1973 and, so far, it looks pretty SW to me. 
https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/El_juez_de_la_soga
Thanks scherp!
Massimo- for sure, these westerns have all the flavor of SWs, and sometimes are more graphically violent. Thanks for sharing the poster - nice find! The only poster image I had was very small and pixelated.
Next, I will watch Los Desalmados which seems to translate to The Fiendish. Iām watching these in Spanish, which I understand very little(for now 
), but I believe Iām following the story lines pretty well. I can easily see how a person could learn a language by watching movies in that language as long as you, every now and then, look up words youāre curious about along the way.
Ah, RubĆ©n Galindo! I havenāt heard of this one yet, will have to look it up. Are you watching on youtube or where did you find it?
I am actually using these movies as a way to try and help myself learn Spanish, something Iāve been less than half-assed about for years now. I was thinking of maybe creating English subtitles for these films to also help learn the language, but I donāt knowā¦ thatās a lot of work
I just started watching on Youtube. Youāll be an Spanish expert if you subtitle them. I should have had that as an assignment in high school Spanish classes.
I may have to watch that same youtube upload - so far I donāt see it available anywhere else but will keep looking. The usual cheapo Mexican DVD releasers have a couple, but they seem to be OOP. This is why I like to buy them up if I can, because when they go OOP they are very hard to find. I plan on doing some real world hunting at some point in Latin markets and whatnot. A trip to Mexico would be incredible.
Thereās another youtube upload of that film by someone who seems to have uploaded most Mexican westerns I look for, but its very strange - they start about 30min into the film so they are all missing almost half the movie.
Based on the pic below, I thought Los Desalmados(The Fiendish?) was going to be about a bizarre sadistic outlaw gang paralleling late 60s biker movies like Satanās Sadists. It had its moments and was good overall but had a lot more lighthearted elements than I expected. Still havenāt finished watching it and itās much less understandable watching in Spanish than El Juez de la Soga was(too much dialogue, more tell than show ).
Started El Tunco Maclovio which is more in line with SWs and supposedly filmed in Chihuahua, Mexico where a few John Wayne movies were shot.
I just spent almost a month in Mexico, I should have visited a thrift store or flea market to hunt some of these down 
Iām an hour away by car but theyāre having some issues in Tijuana at the moment. 
Whatās one fella more
Yes, these can tend to be a mixed bag in terms of having some light hearted stuff thrown in and sometimes going back & forth between violent or light tones. The same can be said for lots of spaghs thoughā¦ That image is great.
I recently completed a composite edit of El Tunco. I would consider it one of the best & most spaghetti like out of the Mexican westerns. It also has some light hearted stuff mixed in though, with the boy character and some scenes that actually make me feel a bit uncomfortable such as a lingering close up on the boyās ass cheeks showing through his worn out pants. (This is one of the scenes that isnāt included in some versions). I get that the point is to show the poverty of the boy, but the way it just lingers is a bit weird, combined with some of the dialogue between Tunco and the boy makes me wonder a bit about old Alberto or whoever is responsible for these scenesā¦
I would imagine these DVDs are fairly easy to find in Mexico, but having never been there I donāt knowā¦
However, they do seem to be fairly regularly released by various companies who market primarily to physical retail locations & are near impossible to find online consistently. They are always just recorded from VHS and usually packed with 3-7 other films (āpeliculasā).
Havenāt got to the weird aspect of El Tunco yet. Thanks for the heads up. I watched the first 20 minutes on a Kindle before taking a power nap (a nap that gives me strength to get back to work 
) and woke up near the very end with the Tunco, the woman, the kid, and the ā1940s styleā beautiful, yet not SW, music in the background, right before the unexpected ending. I have no idea yet how they got from the 20 minutes I watched to that ending but Iāll find out soon.
It may just be a case of time/cultural differences not translating very wellā¦ or perhaps Iām just being oversensitive. The scene mentioned is not a very big deal and the dialogue I reference isnāt either - you have to read into it to make anything of itā¦ but with some recent revelations about children being supposedly very widely exploited in the movie business during the 80s, it makes ya wonder, as personally I totally believe the claims
Why not just drop by the local barrio, armed to the teeth of course ! āQue pasa, gringoā ā¦ Si, tenemos muchos peliculas para tiā 
As I type, Iām rounding up amigos to storm the border demanding English-dubbed remastered Bluerays of every movie in the SWDB Mexican-Western database! 
hahahā¦
ya know, being so close to Mexico, I bet you could probably find some around your current area. There used to be a Mexican restaurant here that was also a sort of very small grocery store, and the guy at the counter was always watching moviesā¦ I bet they were the kind Iām looking for now, and I wouldnāt be surprised if they sold them also. But back in those days I was unaware, and that place is now gone. But Walmart is supposed to be a place that stocks these Mexican DVDs - they are usually alongside the popular narco DVDs, but I havenāt seen them here. Iām not sure if Walmart no longer sells them, seems like I do remember seeing some there about 5 years ago, or if its just more likely to find them in areas with heavier Mexican populations.
Iāll have to keep my eyes open. San Diego area shops that sell Spanish language Mexican DVDs are no doubt more widespread than Iām aware of, not to mention Tijuana outlets. The border crossing there really was shut down for a few hours today, but not because of my earlier Blueray demands .
