I liked the film, and it was great, but one continuity issue bugged me throughoutâŠwasnât Cuchillo married in âLa Resa dei contiâ?
Well, itâs a different film, but
Not just one, lots of them. One here, one there, wherever I could find them.Married isn't necessarily a continuity problem.
Yeah, Cuchillo doesnât seem like a particularly faithful guy. Though it would have been nice if MarĂa Granada returned for the sequel! And for a while I was under the impression that this was a prequel rather than a sequel, Cuchillo talks about having participated in revolutionary stuff in The Big Gundown and the sequel has to do with a revolution. But I havenât seen Run, Man, Run so I donât really know.
Actually, I did think of it as a prequel while watching it. Also, I guess he could be married to more than one women (although as rogue-ish as Chuchillo is I, for some reason, cannot imagine it). Maybe his fiancĂ©e in this film and his wife in the ââsequelââ are the same women with different aliases? Or he didnât stay with Dolores.
Hummmm SW Zapata soap opera time
"on the next episode of Foge Hombre Foge will finally Chuchillo marry with Dolores? will he be killed? and if yes by who?"
I thought this was a lot of fun, if not too full of substance (but then again, this is a spaghetti western, not Citizen Kane). Several lines managed to make me laugh out loud, which is rare in my jaded old age of 33. The two women were a particular highlight - Chelo Alonso is wonderfully feisty, and Linda Veras looks terrific in a Salvation Army uniform - and this has the best (only?) catfight Iâve seen in a SW to date, so major bonus points for that. ;D The open-ended finale was a bit of a disappointment. I donât dislike open endings as a rule; in fact, I usually prefer them to the âletâs wrap everything up in a neat little bow in the last 5 minutesâ endings we get in the USA. But this one left me unsatisfied. Too many characters werenât given any resolution. But Iâm nitpicking. I can understand why itâs on the Top 20 (but also why itâs at the bottom of it). I have yet to be let down by a performance of Milianâs. Heâs very likeable, second only to Nero for me.
Welcome - but oooh - more catfights to entice you to stay aroundâŠ
http://www.spaghetti-western.net/forum/index.php/topic,1086.msg26243.html#msg26243
Hahaha! ;D The fact that you have a thread dedicated to just that subject is reason enough for me to pledge my undying love to this forum.
I canât believe I forgot the mud-wrestling scene in Django, though I feel a bit better knowing that it was (probably) stuntmen in drag. They certainly didnât look as good as the two I mentioned. (Glad to see my scene was the inaugural one for the official catfight thread, as well!)
Just watched this film today and I have to admit the salvation army lady has lovely flowing golden hair in a fine rear shot when she is burying her salvation army colleague. But she is also in Face to Face and she looks even better as 1Hr 27 mins 42 seconds in this film (koch media dvd) sat next to Mr Volonte.
Run, Man, Run (Sollima/68)
âRun, Man, Runâ (1968) is a Revoloutionary Spaghetti Western directed by the third âSergioâ (after Leone and Corbucci) Sergio Sollima. It stars Thomas Milian as Cuchillo the peasant, reprising his role from âThe Big Gundownâ (1966), who becomes involved in the hunt of a large cache of gold in Texas.
This is a semi-sequel to âThe Big Gundownâ, but like the Dollars trilogy one can be watched without the other and no confusion arise. In fact, it is probably best to watch this and not compare it to the two previous Sollima Westerns as this movie will be found wanting, which is not to say it is a poor film. Quite the opposite, it is very well directed, acted (especially by Milian), scored by Bruno Nicolai (although allegedly Ennio Morricone gave a helping hand) and the cinematography by Guglielmo Mancori is fantastic. It is just that in this picture what you get is absolutely what you see; there isnât any Fascist allegory hiding underneath like there is in âFace to Faceâ (1967) or the character complexities there is in âThe Big Gundownâ. Perhaps because Sollima is a better director than scriptwriter (this is his only Spaghetti Western where Sergio Donati doesnât have a screenplay credit). Still, this is a very good Western, way above the average fare and a film anybody with even only a superficial knowledge of the genre will acknowledge as a great.
Which is your favourite Sollima western then John ?
Face to Face, undoubtably. The dynamics between Volonté and Milian are fantastic.
0/5 one of my top worst!
no gunplay at all
no story, no acting, boreeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
give me a bed to sleep please!! ???
Mine aswell.
Ditto.
I didnât like it with the first viewing, but when I saw it once again a few months ago, I remember it was very good, satisfying Sollimaâs little gem. Unfortunately it canât be compared to his two previous westerns, but there are many fans, who consider this one to be gorgeous. Well, this is not top 20 stuff for me, but nevertheless is was nice to watch. No less than 4 stars and it might be on my top 30, but never on top 20. Unfortunately it doesnât deserve to put it so high⊠:â(
Have Ennio Morricone ever said that it actually was him that scored the soundtrack to Run, Man, Run, and not the credited Bruno Nicolai?
The director (Sergio Sollima) says in a interview (on the DVD extras) that it is Morricone who scored the soundtrack, but still, have Morricone ever said it officially was his work?
Iâve also heard that Morricone composed soundtrack, not Nicolai.
Iâm not sure if itâs true, but I believe Sollima. Why would he lie?
Yes, why would he lie? but still, it would be great to hear the whole story from Morricone himself. Iâm not totally sure if I should write Ennio Morriconeâs name instead of Bruno Nicolaiâs, in my Itunes library 
Well after a brief intermission I watched this as my reentry back into Spaghetti-land after a month or two absence.
Absolutely loved this movie - Tomas Milian makes a terrific lead and the cuchillo character is great fun. Love the fact that he uses knives as a weapon and the duel where he keeps taking a few steps forward to get in range is the kind of humour that I enjoy in my spagetti westerns (ie funny but not too overdone). Excellent direction and an excellent score ensured that this film whizzed by and as for the Salvation Army lady - yowza!! :o
Liked the fact that although the film was light in tone, it could suddenly become serious without feeling like a different movie (You always felt that Cuchillo would stab someone in the back if need be)
Favourite moment(s) - the moment where Cuchillo steals the bread and goes through the door and the camera pans back. I was expecting him to be snared by guards but didnt expect him to be gatecrashing someone elseâs firing squad!! ;D
Also loved the bit where he stole Cassidyâs watch.
Coolest moment - Definitely the Windmill scene
Gave it 5/5 (although technically it should be 4.5 lol)