I just watched the cantina song scene of this film from youtube. Very good song.
You’ve said it all @scherpschutter, I couldn’t agree more on this Steffen’s spagh - I’d seen it long time ago (not 45 years ago though), but I remember that final gunfight going on and on and on - without offering anything special.
It’s because the movie was made during comedy spagh craze with everyone going nuts and not realizing that everything will be recorded on film for eternity.
Jeez, someone send the kid invite.
That’s what I thought when I rewatched it recently.
Still in the game. Had some internet problems, youtube was out of the question, so I had to dive deep into my archive. And boy, what crap I have found:
- I Tre Del Colorado aka Rebels Of Canada (Ossorio) - One of those spaghs featuring canadian Mounties, mass battles that go on and on, and crappy screenplay, which is worse and worse by a minute. George Martin and his blonde are on the run, the woman falls on the ground and begs George he rather leaves her there - like two meters in front of the bridge through which they would cross the border. Immediatelly deleted from the archive. 2/5
Carogne Si Nasce aka Cry Of Death (Brescia) - While 3/4 of the movie is quite alright US style western with few interesting scenes, the most trashy part is the final gunbattle, which has some fidanisque qualities. The whole town battle features several warring parties and after a while I was unable to determine who is shooting at who. But even without it, the action by this time is so lousy directed I almost gave up. It’s a shame, because until that point the movie wasn’t bad. Nothing I would keep on file though. 2,5/5
Then I tried to watch several never seen spaghs from the archive, such gems as His Name Was Pot, but so low in video quality I had to turned it off, or Now They Call Him Sacramento, a trinity style comedy spagh, which I endured to watch for about ten minutes.
- John The Bastard - A rewatch. If someone gave me the money to direct a spagh during the craze, this might be a movie I would come up with. 8/10
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Thanks. I realize now that it wasn’t 45 years ago for me either. I was surprised by the fact that it looked so good and then realized that this was the widescreen effect: I had not seen it in the '70s (on a late night showing in cinema, in widescreen), but in the second half of the '80s, on VHS, pan & scan of course. So it was only 30-35 years ago …
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Hopefully they did not treat him to one of their notorious ‘pig’ parties.
Nah, I’m not cool enough. Still kicking myself for not reseeding enough though.
I like this one too, it’s not too bad.
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Did my second rewatch of this Spagvember (I count the Sartana films as one franchise) with Un Dollaro Tra I Denti (A Dollar Between the Teeth/A Stranger in Town) this time watching the Artus Blu Ray
The film is still quite good the second time around, especially the scene where Tony Anthony gives Frank Wolff the same amount of blows Wolff’s cronies gave Anthony.
I also did a compare/contrast with the Colosseo DVD and the Artus Blu Ray and found the Blu Ray transfer to be crisper with image and sound, but the DVD offers slightly sharper color, though the Blu Ray colors are still good. Overall, a fun afternoon.
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Halfway through? Already?? Wow. Didn’t think I’d make it this far this year, yet here we are.
SPAGVEMBERFEST 2019: DAY 15
Today, I’m going with Lola Colt (Marcellini, 1967). Why? I dunno. Probably because Lola Falana looks gorgeous. The movie looks decidedly less gorgeous but, well, sod it. It’s on now. Who knows, maybe it’s an unacknowledged gem. Yes.
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- Simonelli: Two Sergeants of General Custer
-The usual Franco & Cicco western spoof though this time the first half of the film is more like military farce only later we get some more traditional western stuff with indians and saloons etc. Film benefits from having a Fernando Sancho playing one of the main roles, Sancho is always fun to watch. 3/10
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Adios Gringo (1965, Giorgio Stegani)
No Spaghvember without at least one Gemma. I chose this early outing because it must have been the first spaghetti western I actually watched in Italian. I bought the Shendene disc in 2005 in Rome. I was surprised by Gemma’s deep voice, but then I read, in Giusti’s book, that he was dubbed in the Italian version by a voice actor (a practice very common in Italy). In the meantime I have heard his real voice on several occasions and I this time I noticed that it was indeed not his voice on the audio track.
Anyway, the movie offers a nice mix of American and Italian influences. The story (based on an American dime novel) is a typically American tale about a falsely accused man who must try to clear his name, but the style of acting and the choreography of the action scenes (both the fistfights and the shootouts) is Italian. By the way: I also have a DVDr with English audio and watched the first hour in Italian, the final half our in English. I’d say the English dub is quite alright (I’ve heard far worse), even though the Italian sounds a bit more natural (especially in regard to ambient sound)
Full review here:
https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Adios_Gringo_Review
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Comin At Ya
A rewatch. Still the weakest of Tony’s westerns for me, but this time I knew what to expect, so I settled for the inevitable. The movie seems to be interested more in a various torture ideas than gunplay, which are incorporated into long scenes I didn’t care much about: the infamous rubber bats scene, which really looks stupid and it’s not very necessary for the story, or main baddie plagued by rats, which on the other hand looks pretty cool, but still - do we really need this in a western? I don’t. Unfortunately, the movie doesn’t find much interest in the gunplay - there’s only few supershort shootouts until final shotgun showdown, typical for Tony’s westerns, but even that is not very long. Half of the baddies is gunned down by Tony, half of them runs away. COME ON! 6/10
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I’ll have to seek this out at some time. I think Comin’ At Ya played UK cinemas but at the time I missed it. I did see Tony Anthony’s next 3-D pic, the Indian Jones rip off Treasure of the Four Crowns, at my local Odeon.
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If I don’t count pre-stranger movies, Treasure of Four Crowns is the only film with Tony I haven’t seen. Still didn’t find the courage to watch it…
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16: ‘The Hills Run Red’ (1966) What a tantalising title for a western movie - but alas it’s as OTT as the infamous Thomas Hunter performance.
A very ordinary little movie which seems to have caused some stirs of interest because it’s director was Carlo Lizzani, operating under the pseudonym, Lee W. Beaver ! It has a lovely Morricone score, also incognito as Leo Nichols … sounds like it could have been recorded during the sessions for ‘Navajo Joe’ … the film itself is just another lacklustre revenge tale … and it’s difficult to feel sorry for Hunter’s character, ‘Brewster’, when he’s been dumb enough to put himself in the situation that lands him in jail for a 5 stretch, and on release find that his wife has been killed by his former partner … any 6 year old kid could have spotted that plot device … oh well, I’ve seen worse. 6/10 for the music, otherwise it would get a 4/10.
The only scene to really surprise me is when the stuntman doubling for Hunter, jumps from the speeding wagon, and goes right under it’s back wheels - wonder how long the guy spent in hospital, or were the stunt guys too macho back then? LOL 
17:Winchester Bill’ aka Voltati… ti uccido (Turn … I Kill You!) ‘If One is born a Swine’ (1967)
Decent little ‘B’ movie with a few nice plot twists, Fernando Sancho Mexican Bandit quips, music ripped off from $100,000 for Ringo, Long Days of Vengeance, Texas Adios etc. Doesn’t get much love at IMDB, maybe because of emotionless Richard Wyler in the lead … he’s pretty crap TBH. But I found this very watchable having no preconceptions, 6/10
18: ‘John the Bastard’ (1967)
Interesting to find a SW of this era were the hero isn’t motivated by gold, but by his obsession with attaining ‘Honour and Respect!’ plus banging a lot of gorgeous Italian women 
Worth a look if you haven’t already seen it - quite unique and it has a belter theme song and title sequence. 7.5/10
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Basically a One-Eyed Jacks rip-off if I remember correctly?
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15 1/2. Executioner Of God (Lattanzi)
I had to finish this one. I had to know. Yes, Fat Brothers Of Trinity is not the worst spagh I’d seen after all. 0/5
Reading autocaptions was more fun than the movie itself.
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16. Whity (1970)
In the heydays of the spaghetti western, “everybody” wanted to make one, it seems, even Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who made this post-civil war drama about a dysfunctional southern aristocrat family. Not my bag. And no spagh feel here whatsoever.
5/10 (or so my EXCEL sheet tells me)
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Even being filmed partially at Leone’s ‘El Paso’ movie set, it still barely feels like a western at all. Did nothing for me either.
Spagvemberfest 2019 - Day 15
Massacre at Grand Canyon (Corbucci / 1964)
A good example of what all Italian westerns would have looked like if Sergio Leone hadn’t been invented. An old school range war western with overly protracted gun battle and James Mitchum trying (and failing) to conjure up some of his Dad’s charisma.
Well done Koch though for proving that you actually can polish a turd.
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James Mitchum was awkward in this. He made better job in The Tramplers.
Just got done the Classic Late Period Western Keoma
I actually avoided this one for years because I thought it would be another of the late era ones that tried too hard, but I finally took the plunge with the Arrow release and found it to be very stylish and well made. A little emotionally draining towards the end, but still a great film. I enjoyed it, but it definitely falls into a mood watch category.
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