I’ve been trying to think of an old movie I seen a couple times as a kid. I can’t remember a lot about other than I’m almost certain it had a long enough run time it split over two vhs tapes like some versions of The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly and Once Upon A Time…were. I figured the longer than normal run time might narrow down the list of possibilities.
About the only other things I remember is there were two main characters, one with darker hair and wore a blue/black button up shirt and the other guy had lighter colored hair wore a white-tish pullover style shirt and carried two guns. Seems like they were fighting against a Mexican army. Or at least I wanna think they wore that style of uniforms and hats.
In my head I can kinda see the cover of the VHS box. I wanna think it had the blonde hair/ white shirt guy kinda squatting about the midways with both his pistols out and above him it had the dark haired/blue shirt dude and there might have been a girl wrapped around him. Then across the bottom I wanna think was a group of soldiers marching.
I had the (a?) US release of A Fistful of Dynamite on VHS, and it was only one tape, IIRC. I purchased it new sometime in the y2k era, (likely from a Suncoast). Am pretty sure my edition was this one (not sure how many vhs releases it had had by that point, but this was quite a few years before the first US DVD release under Duck, You Sucker.)
(image from Google Image Search, seems to have been scraped from an old ebay listing)
As for plot and character: it is a Zapata western (meaning it’s set during the Mexican Revolution). And here’s an image of the main characters: (brown face aside (which, imo, is handled much more tastefully here than in a lot of contemporaries) Rod Steiger absolutely kills it in this movie. By far my favorite Leone, Coburn, and Morricone flick each)
