New to the group but not to spaghetti westerns, got in on this just today. I started with The Specialist
Now onto one of my favorites, A Bullet for The General
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Yeehaw, howdy and welcome on board. Glad you jumped right into the Spagvember
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SPAGVEMBERFEST 2020
Day 11
Vengeance is Mine (Fago / 1967)
Far too talky and melodramatic in parts and featuring a truly awful English dub somehow this filmâs qualities still manage to outweigh its shortcomings. Not nearly as good as its companion piece, $10,000 Dollars Blood Money, in my view but still very enjoyable with nice interplay between Garko and Camaso again and a pretty good trumpet led score from Nora Orlandi too. It also features a standout opening scene featuring Fernando Sancho getting dispatched with his mates in a church where there coffins are already laid out complete with wanted posters on top. The dub voice for Garko is truly awful though and makes him sound like a 65 year old plantation owner. 
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Welcome to the SWDB, @Cleet! And welcome more specifically to SpagvemberFest! Try to stay sane. 
Yea donât follow @last.caressâ example
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My review is up now as well
https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/A_Bullet_For_The_General_BluRay_review
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- 100 000 Dollars For Lassiter aka 300 Spaghs For Tomas
I was planning to watch one of the last two remaining PLL spaghs to reach the chimeric heights of 300 but then I said no, PLL is too risky for such an important achievement I try something else.
And thankfully, I didnât spend time intended for greatness by suffering over some horrendously bad movie. No, Lassiter was actually pretty good spaghie, well-made in all aspects, although it played more on the US side. Very recommendable stuff. 8/10
Now Iâm going to chill and have a drink.
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Day 12: Colt in the Hand of the Devil
I watched this on Amazon Prime and it appears that it has been heavily cut. I enjoyed this shortened version so will have to seek out the full film once the month is over.
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Up next. Wish I would have picked up the 88Films version when it had the slipcover, still going to get their version
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- Martin: The Bounty Killer
-Film with rather bland Richar Wyler and particularly excellent Tomas Milian which makes it a bit uneven. Milianâs death scene is so great, one of the best scenes Iâve seen in any sw. 7/10
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SPAGVEMBERFEST 2020
Day 12
Cowards Donât Pray (Siciliano / 1968)
Had started to write a review for my blog on this a while ago so this was a good excuse to finish it. You can read the review here but suffice to say I like this one a lot and I think is possibly Garkoâs best performance in any western even if I prefer $10,000 for a Massacre as an overall film.
@last.caress might be having the life sucked out of him this Spagvemberfest but I have to say Iâm bloody loving it. Maybe just watching a different good film every day is the answer? Who knew?
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I think you might have something there.
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Day 12 sees me end up with a real turkey I think
Has an interesting enough story and Broderick Crawford does his best as a totally unlikable bully, but it all seems a little too far fetched.
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Not really set for this November. Actually, just dropping in to say hello.
Have seen this sometime before and given it 6/10. This time 7/10. The film has a more intricate story than I appreciated the first time. Think I need to watch it again sometime.
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Day 12-killer kid
One of Steffens very best films and one that canât be missed, it sort of is a zapata western although it seems closer to a fistful of dollarsesque affair than a quien sabe for exemple, and I have sort of developed an unhealthy love for sand pits, which this film uses to their fullest extent. Fernando Sancho is as good as he gets and ken Woods is awesome. You just have to watch it!
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My pick for todayâs was Lola Colt. Hated the speed used in the fighting scenes. Overall disappointing.
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Nice to see you morgan
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âTHE BIG GUNDOWNâ (1966)
Directed by Sergio Sollima, this spaghetti classic usually features in most peoples top ten - it certainly does in mine.
Spaghetti stalwarts, Lee Van Cleef, and Tomas Milian perform excellently together, and this beauty features some of their very best work on screen. The chemistry between the two is unforgettable.
Lawman, John Corbett (Van Cleef), is hired by a land-baron (Walter Barnes) to hunt down a Mexican peasant, Cuchillo Sanchez (Milian), accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.
However, things are not as they seemâŚ
Tomas Milian obviously relishes the role that he was born to play, while Lee Van Cleef ignites the screen with the magical charisma that shot him to stardom in the Sergio Leone westerns.
The pace never lets up; and, with yet another glorious, pulse-pounding score by Ennio Morricone, plus an intelligent, thought-provoking script by Franco Solinas, âThe Big Gundownâ is essential viewing for either a veteran, or new-comer to the world of Italian blood and guns.
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