Yeah, that’s the one I watched. The superb picture and audio quality makes all the difference…
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I can’t imagine worse spagh to watch than these composites one might collide with from time to time. Bury them deep is one another that comes to mind.
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Wanna ease up on that caffeine !? 
I don’t drink coffee any longer, but I feel like I’m speeding when I try to read your posts - no offence intended. 
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- Mauri: Sartana in the Valley of Death
-Cheap film shot in sand pits but I’ve always liked it. Still, I just realized that I’ve only seen C’est la vie dvd version which is cut. 6/10
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The longer version just has more unnecessary shots of Berger walking through the fake desert … you’re not missing a thing with the shorter cut.
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Day 8: Arizona Colt (1966). I’ve seen this one on a lot of lists and in various books, but haven’t had a chance to see it yet. I usually like Gemma’s movies (e.g. Day of Anger, Return of Ringo), so I’ll kick off week two with AC.
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Spagvember Fest Day 8
Un Dollaro Tra I Denti
2nd rewatch. I have to say I really do get a kick out of seeing this low budget classic. I wasn’t impressed with Tony Anthony at first, he seemed like a movie hustler in the vein of Nick Adams, but after seeing his audio interview recently, I realized how much he busted his hump and worked and studied to get where he got then. Yes there was some hustling involved, but he did it the right way in selling the whole projects he wanted to do, not just himself.
And Frank Wolff is always a joy to watch.
I also have to admit the German DVD has a better quality than the French Blu Ray, the BR colors look lifeless.
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Spagvemberfest 2021 Day 8: FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (1965)
Leone/Morricone Mondays continue with my first rewatch of this classic in at least ten years. Still holds up beautifully and benefits from its great cast and familiar genre faces like Luigi Pistilli, Klaus Kinski, Aldo Sambrell and Mario Brega. A great film. 10/10.
Most of all it also helped me remember how much my father loved these movies. He passed away exactly a month ago today at the age of 93, and he took me to see all these movies when they first showed in the theaters. I must have been no more than eight or nine. He loved westerns of all sorts and we saw just about everything that came out in the late sixties and early seventies. He was the guy who turned me on to spaghetti westerns and I’ll always thank him for that. In fact, the last two movies I got to watch with him back in August were MASSACRE TIME and BANDIDOS, and he loved both of them. Thanks dad for raising your boy right.
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SPAGVEMBERFEST DAY 8
So, for me, Django, Kill! (Questi, 1967) is not just another spaghetti; it’s THE spaghetti. All the tropes and eccentricities of the genre are present, but Giulio Questi’s only spag hits those tropes like a wrecking ball.
One of the weirdest movies that this genre (or any other for that matter) has to offer, antihero Tomas Milan almost sleepwalks his way through a sequence of increasingly bizarre -and occasionally quite gory, in a dirt-cheap way -sequences until the movie’s fiery conclusion. You want protagonists coming back from the dead? Gold bullets? Gay cowboy enforcers? Fully conversant parrots? Torture by bat (not cricket bat or baseball bat btw; actual flying mammalian BATS)? Well, why wouldn’t you want these things? And Django, Kill! has it all. And, once you’ve seen it, all the other spags are really just kind-of playing catch-up.
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Day 8 - Ocaso de un pistolero
The first of two Rafael Marchent movies that I intend to watch in this marathon. Been avoiding it because of the intro scene, as a father this things are hard to deal with.
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I totally get that amico, I don’t have children of my own yet, but I have a lot of little cousins who I never want to see anything bad happen to them.
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Lol. That’s funny , yep .don’t say a lot sometimes but when I do it’s like I’ll say it…ha lol… Glad to make you feel better.or whatever. know what u mean though, I read a lot on here and I can say I get all kinds of different feelings from all the moods and personalities. Get energy from you good folks and guilty as well as charged… No worries . Lol… Right now I’m watching, Sartana and His shadow of death. You can actually find this very rare one on you tube hope
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Day 9: ‘Train for Durango’ (1968)
Pretty light but entertaining comedy/buddy movie - ‘The Steff’ does ok here as a slightly dumb sidekick to acting heavyweight, Enrico Maria Salerno. Lots of nice familiar Spanish locations, but story wise, nothing too taxing 
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Spagvemberfest 2021 Day 8 Movie #2: HIS NAME WAS KING (1971)
I had time to sneak another one in today, thanks to this only being 75 minutes long. For a movie made in 1971, it looks more like it’s done in 1964 due to the green surroundings and clean cut looks of everyone, the exception being Kinski’s long hair and a deputy dressed like a member of ABBA.
Plot wise it’s pretty standard stuff, and the so-called “twist” you can see coming a mile away. At least Harrison is a tad cooler than usual here, wearing a nifty buckskin shirt and punching just about everyone in the cast.
One off-putting thing was an unusually high rape scene count: three. It was unnecessary and left me feeling kind of icky.
The best thing about the whole film is Bacalov’s score and the ultra catchy and supercool theme song sung by Ann Collin. Really livens up an otherwise meh movie. Worth an extra point. 6/10.
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Spagvemberfest 2021
Day 8
A Pistol for Ringo (Tessari / 1965)
This Belgian poster is one of my favourites and usually has pride of place on our living room wall. It’s not up at the moment because we are redecorating but will go back up very soon. I have a few Belgian posters and they are of mixed quality I think in terms of imagery but this is a great one. And found randomly in a shop in Soho which was a lovely surprise.
The film is of course a classic and well worth repeat viewings. I usually like to watch it at Christmas for obvious reasons. The sequel/not sequel is the better film for me but that really is no bad reflection on this one as Return of Ringo is probably my favourite Spaghetti of all including the Leones.
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’La Morte non Conta i Dollari’ (1967)
Also known as ‘Death Does Not Count the Dollars’, or ’ Death at Owell Rock’, this is a pleasing little SW, directed by Riccardo Fredo, and starring genre favourite, Mark Damon.
A simple tale of revenge and retribution. I’d only watched this once before, about eight years ago. Why I’ve left it so long, I don’t know, because I thoroughly enjoyed it on a second viewing.
It’s a fun SW, filled with the welcome shoot-outs and fisticuffs we savour, and has the added bonus of genre favourites Nello Pazzafini, Spartaco Conversi, Ignazio Spalla, Dino Strano, and Luciano Pigozzi.
Nora Orlandi supplies the SW requisite - a memorable soundtrack, to accompany the action.
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What a beautiful poster, Phil.
Just like you, I’m saving the film up to watch at Christmas…
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Day 9
Today’s movies - Dead Men Don’t Make Shadows (1970)
Call me crazy but I kinda love this movie. I really enjoyed it when I first watched it and rewatching it, it’s a highly enjoyable cheap gritty western with a decent story and two relatively strong leads who look all kinds of cool. The Gori score is a favorite of mine and I love how it sounds both dark and epic at once. All around this is to me a movie Fidani should be proud of as he managed to make quite a fun western with not many resources, tomorrow I’ll rewatch “Coffin Full of Dollars” as I liked that one too.
Also, - Four Dollars of Revenge (1966)
For the first 30 minutes this is admittedly pretty boring but when the movies goes revenge mode it’s actually very good. This was one of the earlier Robert Woods films and he’d go on to make many better films but this is far from a bad one. It’s got nice (but slightly repetitive music) and some great Spanish locations making the movies look more expensive than it probably is. It ends on a sword fight but that doesn’t mean it’s any kind of Zorro film, it reminded me more of “Return of Ringo” and “Long Days of Vengeance” made a year later, but supposedly this is based on “The Count of Monte Cristo”, a story I’m not familiar with.
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Day 9
Today’s George Martin offering is Nevada Joe (1964).
Oeste Nevada Joe - The Spaghetti Western Database (spaghetti-western.net)
Not bad for an early entry in the genre - fun, but nothing truly spectacular or memorable. That is really all there is to say about it.
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