Just received ‘Guns & Guts’ by Cardona (VCI Entertainment). It’s dubbed in English, widescreen and the print looks pretty good. This is an affordable option if you want to try a Mexi-western. However, I’ve taken a look at some scenes and the movie itself doesn’t look too grand. My impression of the flick is one of Mexicans trying to make a spaghetti western and (at least here) it doesn’t quite work.
I think this probably is not the kind of “Mexican western” you might mean but there is a really interesting Mexican Horror/Western from 1958 called The Living Coffin. It stars Gaston Santos and was directed by Fernando Mendez.
Pre-Spaghetti but Muy Bueno.
Some people moght call What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revoution, a Tortilla western since it was filmed in Mexico. I haven’t seen it so I can’t judge. My video store has a copy of guns and guts in there spaghetti western section and I migt check it out.
El Tunco Maclovio (as mentioned before in this thread), is one Mexican western searching out as; moody, violent, great music and best of all for me a negative film :).
[quote=“Sebastian, post:9, topic:902”]don’t believe everything you read in the database :D[/quote]Well, I believe some scenes were shot in Mexico such as the biplane scene after the priest is lasod into the plane. It has a green rocky landscape that can be seen in man of John Wayne’s westerns. After all, he was Durango’s favorite son.
I got “Emiliano Zapata”, which is said to be the most expensive Mexican film of all time. For me it was rather the most disappointing Mexican film of all time…
It is possible. Don’t know if he fails in this case, but his book is also imperfect. For example he presents a photo of the usual Elios church (And god said to cain) and says it was Cave Studios.
Weisser didn’t say Mexico but he did manage to not only offer a wrong synopsis but then offered a critique of it after showing he hadn’t seen it. Oh man. This guy.