Finders Killers (1970)
Another Crea after all. Now I’m ready for some quality Fidani stuff.
2,5/10
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Spent this afternoon watching All’Ombra di una Colt (In a Colt’s Shadow).
A little more on the Hollywood influenced end of the genre, but I felt it was very refreshing to see a genuine love story in an SW. Would’ve liked to have seen Corrado San Martin a little more, but I still enjoyed it. Definitely on the average scale, but still very well done, especially the shoot out finale.
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Wow, Spaghvember is strong this year
- Simonelli: Un dollaro di fifa
-Continuing my project of watching new sw’s I picked this very early entry from 1960. As my previous first-runs were terrible 1-2/10 films, I didn’t have much expectation for this one either. But heck, this was good. Probably the funniest sw comedy I’ve seen, made me laugh out loud many times. As an early entry it reminds me more of the American comedies of the 50’s than typical Italian western, the comedy was silly at times but at times very absurd and crazy -the way I like it. Many of the gags had a such a surprising elements that I liked, nut cracking scene being my favorite. I’d bet that the film makers were inspired by Jacovitti’s Cocco Bill comics which had started few years earlier, I see certain similarities in comedy and also the title sequence consists of comic book illustrations very similar to Jacovitti. I saw the italian version but it was pretty easy to follow without understanding much of the dialogue. 6/10
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Spagvemberfest 2019 - Day 8
Long Days of Vengeance (Vancini / 1966)
Decided to revisit my X-Rated releases which I haven’t looked at for quite a while and started with this one. This one falls into the “deserves a better release than this” category. Don’t know what the Wild East release is like but this X-Rated one is pretty bloody poor sadly. Worse than I remembered it. Picture quality poor, annoying “For sale only in Germany, Austria and Switzerland” message along the bottom throughout and no subtitles when it drops out of English audio.
It’s a pity because the film is a good one if you are a Gemma fan which obviously I am. Come on Arrow. This one should be on your future release list.
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SPAGVEMBERFEST 2019: DAY 10
Today I’m going Beyond the Law (Stegani, 1968) for my second Giorgio Stegani movie in three days, swapping out the great Giuliano Gemma for the equally great (maybe even greater?) Lee Van Cleef as the lead man. Reviews suggest that, like Adios Gringo, it’s a fairly “traditional” western, and not a particularly “spag” spag. Still, Adios Gringo wasn’t too bad at all so I’m reasonably hopeful for something mildly entertaining at least.
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Spagvemberfest 2019 Day 9
Kill or Die (Boccia / 1966)
Another X-Rated release revisited. This one is a bit better in picture quality but a clear second in quality of the actual film. I checked back at my old review on the database from 11 years ago (which was probably the last time I watched this disc) and found most of my thoughts remain the same although I am probably less damning of it now. That’s what another decade of completism will do for you. In 2008 this one seemed a lot weaker than it does now and can probably thank the likes of Gianni Crea and the like for that.
In short, it’s a Gemma copy without the benefit of Gemma but it’s not so bad for all that.
If you feel like reading my old review it’s here.
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And uncut version is even better.
- A Bullet For The General - A rewatch after about 10 years. Impressive. I like it even more now than back then. 10/10
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The Wild East is at least uncut I guess, running for 121 min.
10: ‘Death Walks in Laredo’ (1967) aka, Tre pistole contro Cesare . First time seeing this one … light weight stuff, but moves at a good pace, helped by a terrific soundtrack by Marcello Giombini … lots of whistling and twangy guitars 
not very funny, as comedies go … but totally watchable. 6/10
11: ‘The Forgotten Pistolero’ (1969) aka, Il pistolero dell’Ave Maria - Long time since I first watched this … and what a huge disappointment after hearing the fabulous soundtrack music. Most here will remember the classic opening sequence … the rest plays like a Mexican soap opera. Fairly boring 5/10 … only minor interest to me was seeing a few reused costumes from other SWs.
Leonard Mann is wearing that damned unattractive leather cape coat (the 3rd time I’ve seen it in a week) … and later he has Alberto del Acqua’s coat from ‘Texas Adios’ … one of the Mexican baddies is wearing ‘El Indio’s’ brown shirt with red diamond shapes on the collar … well I had to try and make it interesting for myself!
12:‘The Beast’ (1970) aka, ‘La Belva’
Klaus Kinski becomes involved in a plot to rob a wealthy heiress, and try to rape as many women as possible throughout the film. Pretty entertaining and doesn’t outstay it’s welcome. Lot of re-cycled music, from ‘The Stranger Returns’ by Stelvio Cipriani who is credited as composer, but there’s also Gianni Ferrio’s score from ‘Sentenza di Morte’ used, and no credit given. Overall not bad for a ‘B’ movie, 6/10
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I hate that shit. 
Thought you loved ‘shit’ movies !?
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Just got done Oscano de un Pistolero (Hands of a Gunfighter)
Another of the more Hollywood influenced examples of the genre, this one going into the realm of a Frontier Drama. Not one of the best, but there was still some stuff to like about it. Craig Hill and Piero Lulli are always good in their style of roles.
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Same, I’ve seen it recently and I must say its story practically feels like the only distinguishing factor in this otherwise fairly lukewarm film.
I think I will soon give this thing a shot, looks very trashy, which is good, the trashier the better.
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I’m probably in the minority here, but I thought Adios Gringo was surprisingly good, like really good.
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I wonder what movie gave you that impression? 
- Lupo: Arizona Colt
-Spagvember needs some Gemma and this is one of his better films. Although I think that the real star of the film is Sancho who has some great memorable lines of dialogue here. ”So you see, no-one has to join. But those who don’t, have to die.” That’s like a motto for Spagvemberfest.
7/10
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11. Four Came to Kill Sartana (1969)
Some interesting stuff here. We have a story (something about kidnappings), a mysterious Mormon only seen from the back (or behind a painting) until 72 min, Sartana is here (Jeff Cameron as a very blond Sartana), also, there are four guys who come to kill Sartana. Unfortunally, as it is an early Fidani, it doesn’t yet have a Lallo Gori score. And a Fidani without a Gori score, is like a Leone without Morricone. By the way, there is something wrong with the link to the films page:
https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/...e_vennero_in_quattro_per_uccidere_Sartana!
5,5/10
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I watched Apocalypse Joe, for the first time in maybe 45 years. I had experienced it as so bad that I never went back to it. So far. In the past few years I watched dozens of bottom-of-the-barrel stuff, and that apperently had a strange effect on my reception of some second-rate genre entries I found nearly unwatchable back then, when I was relatively new to the genre and compared all spaghettis to the Leones and Corbuccis or the Ringo movies: I almost found it entertaining this time around.
I had not written a review of it yet, so I’m working on it
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