Re-watching this one the other night my confusion was total, as I after first viewing had noted that “most of the music is Morricone recycled, the rest trash”, and this time it was not so. Reading the thread on it afterwards, Corbett’s’ remark explains it. Still I don’t think the score adds much to the film.
Lenin’s thesis that revolutionary consciousness can be brought to the working people only from without was observed by most writers and directors of the Zapata westerns. Not so in this one. And sure enough, Fernando’s attempt to arouse the peons is not very convincing and amounts to nothing.
I really like this one, despite its weaknesses, and I have given it two stars. But I may have started out on the wrong footing with these stars, as two stars with me will mean within top sixty, and most SWs will not get a star at all. Have you at any point discussed and laid down common rules for this?
Seems to be the idea. I don’t see a problem, you can use the BOMB to **** rating or 1 to 5 stars rating or score films on a scale from ONE to TEN, it’s always more or less the same idea, they’re rated from AWFUL to MASTERPIECE. So in our case, the idea must be something like:
Awful
** - Below Average
*** - Okay, Good
**** - Very Good
***** - Masterpiece
The problem I have is the gap between ‘average’ and ‘good’ (3 stars), you should have something like ‘above average’ in-between, but we don’t have half stars. Otherwise a five star system works pretty well.
Yeah, this is the same old discussion all over again.
If you have to give stars, then 1* means that it’s an awful film, it can get no worse. Unless it’s possible to also give half stars.
2* is, of course, better than 1*, but still bad.
3*, on a 5* scale, is literally in the middle -> okay film, but nothing more than that, sufficient marks.
4* good
5* excellent
I watched this one again today, this time I watched the scenes in correct order and film made much more sense. Jeff Cameron has his best role in it and Woods is good as usual.
Revisited this one recently. It’s definitely an interesting film, definitely above the average spagh. I’m pretty convinced that Eduardo Mulargia directed this, it can’t be Fidani. It could be that Mulargia left the set at some point and Fidani took over, or the other way around… Just take a look at Jeff Cameron’s great performance and compare it to They Came to Kill Sartana, Shadow of Sartana or any other role that he had in a Fidani film, it’s incomparable…
