Rattler Kid / Un hombre vino a matar / L’uomo venuto per uccidere (León Klimovsky, 1967)

[The_Stranger]

Oh my God. What a boring SW.
The film has nothing that makes it interesting. Klimovsky what you have done to us with this?
The film has no SW elements. It all seems very American.
And then the figure of the Rattler Kid. The man wants to rob a bank and happened to meet … Who … his elementary school teacher. :o What a stupid idea.

I am not asleep … but my feet. ;D
For the film Klimovsky deserves a medal. >:(

A word to the German DVD. It has good image quality.
But this cactus fighting scene is missing. And Phil has described it as the best part of the film. Too bad. But this scene probably would not have saved the film.

[Mickey13]

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@Mickey13

I didn’t mind this one as much as some people seem to have, that being said, there is no point in gainsaying what has already been stated about the film, it is definitely very American in its overall disposition and completely at a loss for a style distinctive enough to distinguish it from innumerable other works of this kind. I guess it is not so hopeless because it kept my attention throughout, but Klimovsky’s simplistic craftsmanship happens to be on the nugatory side here.

The sentimentality inhering in the storyline, flabby writing and Masi’s old-fashioned score only tend to exacerbate things further and make the film feel at least ten years older than it really is, some of the film’s shootouts are edited in an incredibly cumbersome fashion too. The wimpish attitude of Wyler’s character and the banal redemption arc do not redress the situation either, so what you have here is a pretty mediocre affair with very few redeeming qualities; I suppose it moves at a somewhat steady pace and features some more character elaboration than usual even if is of the corny kind, but in all honesty, do not expect too much, this is strictly pedestrian stuff.

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[IllThinkAboutIt (MMcG)]

I was researching the Fort Algete location when I discovered that the same shots near the start of Rattler Kid were also used in the fort scene in Prey of Vultures.
Both involved robbing from the army.