One of the last great SW. The Look is in some ways similiar to Michele Lupo’s CALIFORNIA but SILVER SADDLE is a more entertaining and light movie. Instead of Fulci’s other Movies SILVER SADDLE isn’t full of gore and blood. Gemma is 1978 still in a good shape and he shows that in some Action Scenes. The Story with all his episodes and characters is mainly the highlight of the Movie. I liked his sidekick 2 Strikes Snake played by Geoffrey Lewis as a nice opposite to the sinister Hero. I also liked the music but it was somehow a bit too slow. Overall a nice and beautiful last Western of Fulci.
What I didn’t liked was the terrible DVD of BEST ENTERTAINMENT (This name is a joke by itself). On the cover are severals specials and an alternate italian track are mentioned. None of them is on the DVD. The quality looks like taken from a Video Tape with all the artifacts. At least it was a very cheap DVD (1,99) but it isn’t worth more than 1 Euro. >:(
8/10 for me. Liked it, even if it had one of those child characters, i don’t like in SWs. Fulci direction, Gemma, nice atmosphere make this worth seeing. I have to admit i hated the music. This one needs a decent english-friendly DVD release.
The child element is a bit on the annoying side at times, but I do like the Geoffrey Lewis character and a shame his voice was dubbed by another actor in the english dub.
Interesting that Lewis started to work with Eastwood a fair bit when he starred in his first Spaghetti (My Name Is Nobody) and was still starring in Eastwood films when he made Silver Saddle.
I looked on IMDB and he seems to be a very busy actor.
In the german dubbed version the child has a squeaky voice. Sounds similiar to a typical voice of an animated TV Show (maybe Sindbad?) but I’m not quite sure.
Silver Saddle is great… Fulci really knows how to do action scenes, the story works well with nice little touches of comedy and emotion… I think the movie will gain alot of fans if it ever gets released properly in english.
They are both totally different westerns, Four of the apocalypse is a much darker film, Silver Saddle… how can i put it… it’s more of a happy enjoyable sort of western.
Hey, has anybody made suggestions to Sebastian about some sort of dedication to Gemma’s work since he is about to star a neww decade of life? If nobody has, we should.
After having read Sebs review (in german) it seems to be a really good release (what else - it´s Koch Media).
Audio: German/ Italian/ English - but the DVD-Extras (Interviews with Fabio Frizzi and Bruno Micheli in Italian language) do only have german subtitles…
