Day 21 - White Apache
Everyone talks shit about this one, I’m half through and really enjoying it.
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- Carnimeo: Light the Fuse, Sartana’s Coming
-I watched this one from netflix. Good fun though I still don’t understand the plot. 7/10
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Same problem with me, trying to get time to watch anything over two hours these days. And then not fall asleep from exhaustion. I had originally planned to watch GBU, OUATITW, and Fistful of Dynamite this month, but I don’t think it will happen. Hopefully I’ll get to at least one. Right now, I’m watching things in half hour chunks if I can. Good luck to you!
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Spagvemberfest 2021, Day 21: TWO GUNS AND A COWARD aka GUNMAN SENT BY GOD (1968)
Here’s an Anthony Steffen movie I hadn’t seen before, and it’s an interesting one. It’s an emotionally complex role for a change, and Steffen handles it pretty well, as his character goes through lots of personal trauma and conflict and has to man up big time in the end. While there’s not a lot of action here, Steffen’s personal dilemas make it involving and it has a strong black clad villain. The film does kick into high gear at the end, when the circus shows up to help Steffen out. I thought this part was a hoot. Overall, not great, but an unusual film with good main character complexity and a fun ending. The only thing that really bothered me was Steffen’s horribly nasal dubbed voice. Worth a watch 6/10.
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Day 21: ‘Johnny Oro’ aka ‘Ringo and His Golden Pistol’ (1966)
Half way through this one … and so far it’s a bit of a chore - TBH I wasn’t expecting much and I haven’t been disappointed … Surprised by the amount of pointless riding shots … Ride to the border, ride back to town and so on and so forth … it’s worse than a Fidani movie !! and I never thought I’d say that 
Shame on you Sergio Corbucci
Oh well, tomorrow I will treat myself to a known good one 4/10
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I’ll never understand how Corbucci came up with this trash. And in the same year as Django.
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I’ve just seen The Return of Shanghai Joe and it’s surely the worst spag I’ve seen this year. While it doesn’t have that botched look the most abysmal spag outings have, I can’t really say I liked any aspect of the entire debacle. Hardly anything meaningful happens throughout the whole running time and most of it feels like a crude compilation of comedic tropes strung together in the most nondescript and dilatory way possible.
Tommy Polgár is a terrible Bud Spencer clone, Cheen Lie doesn’t even look that Chinese, Klaus Kinski is here only for the paycheck. The narration impassively drifts from one scene to another, but none of the scenes have any real impact, even the ones which involve some action feel flaccid and destitute of any kind of energy and the kung fu sequences are even worse than in the Lattanzi’s piece of shit. Everything is drowsy, somnolent and boring. Nothing ever happens and the only thing that made me laugh here was that fuckawful soundtrack. Sitting though this one was a bona fide torture. Fuck, that was so fucking boring and frustrating.
2/10
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LOL … it’s been about 30 years since I saw this, and that stupid song still sticks in my head! Catchy!! 
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Spagvember Fest Day 21
I Giorni dell’Ira
https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Giorni_dell'ira,_I
7th or 8th time watching. I love this one to pieces, but most of the characters, with the exception of Van Cleef, Jose Calvo, Al Mulock, and even Gemma, are complete and utter asses that are only inches away from making Sodom and Gomorrah look like pikers. All of Clifton, with the exception of Blind Bill and Vivian Skill are total hypocrites with no redeeming qualities, making them very annoying to watch at times.
In Valerii’s Interview on the Arrow disc, he mentioned Gemma being totally miscast in the role of Scott Mary, but because Gemma had part ownership of the company backing the film, Valerii had to use him. I agree with him on Gemma being miscast as a real Gemma character would’ve beat the crap out of a guy like Abel Murray, grab him by the collar and warn him not to put his hands on him again.
I almost always feel like crying at the end cause I didn’t wanna see Van Cleef get killed by Gemma in the finale.
The Arrow Blu Ray is fantastic and full of fun extras.
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Day 21: Long Live Your Death (1971) with Franco Nero, Eli Wallach, Lynn Redgrave, and Marilu Tolo. This Duccio Tessari spag west comedy gem was fun to discover and watch. Nero plays a Russian nobleman/con artist who crosses paths with a Mexican bandit (Wallach) and an ex-pat Irish journalist/revolutionary (Redgrave) in search of a cache of gold. In the process, all three end up becoming frienemies with one another, and unite in helping peons take down the corrupt General Huerto (played by Eduardo Fajardo). Much of the comedy is slapstick violence, including over-the-top punching sounds that are not unlike those in bad martial arts movies. The lovely Marilu Tolo plays Wallach’s mute sister. The soundtrack is also effective in accompanying the overall silliness. I give it a 7/10.
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SPAGVEMBERFEST DAY 21
SPAGVEMBERFEST DAY 22
Didn’t watch one last night - we had a voucher for Virgin Media so we bought People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan (Clough, 2021) instead - so it’s another double-bill tonight and, whilst I’m in for an undeniably quality evening, it’ll be a sombre and reflective affair for sure, starting with the wonderful Cemetery Without Crosses (Hossein, 1969) and following up with the grimly beautiful twilight spag Keoma (Castellari, 1976). Magnificent films both (let’s try to pretend not to hear the Keoma soundtrack), but Carry On Cowboy they’re not. Perhaps I should get good and liquored up before I start.
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Day 22
May God Forgive You…But I Won’t aka May God Forgive You…Not Me
Chiedi perdono a Dio… non a me - The Spaghetti Western Database (spaghetti-western.net)
I am bringing my Anthony Ghidra viewing to an end with what I feel is an under-appreciated entry in the genre. It is a shame that the Italian film industry lost director Vincenzo Musolino at such a young age as it would have been interesting to see what he would have gone on to accomplish. This one flips things around a bit though as Ghidra is the villain, along with his on screen brother Peter Martell, taking on the wronged George Ardisson. This movie is chock full of action and the ending produces the massive amount of carnage that I love to see in a spaghetti. There is one scene of this movie in particular that sticks with me and that is the one that produces the title of the movie. Part of that is because of what happens when Ardisson says the title of the movie out loud and part of that is because Esmeralda Barros has never ever looked better than she does in that scene. This was a fun one to visit again.
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Day 22: Per pochi dollari ancora, lit. ‘For a Few Extra Dollars’ (1966) aka 'Fort Yuma Gold’
My opinion on this has changed greatly since first seeing it … Initially I found it just so-so, run of the mill, vin ordinaire … but that’s doing it an injustice.
This is great fun with Giuliano Gemma on top form - charming and funny, plus throwing himself into action scenes with the determination of a true action hero. There’s a barroom brawl in this with Gemma and the also great Benito Stefanelli, where I was actually wincing, the punches and stunts were so full on !
The plot is familiar to many here so I won’t do a synopsis … but it did make me stop and think, 'How many times does Gemma get released from prison in his western films ??? Quicker to actually list the ones when he doesn’t, right? LOL 
This is no exception - Here he is a confederate states Captain in a prison … same as he was in ‘Blood for a Silver Dollar’ (1965) and ‘California’ (1977) … he’s defo done a lot of time in the pokey during these films.
7/10
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Day 20
A Town Called Bastard (Parrish / 1971)
For the weekend I decided on a Telly Savalas double bill and started with this one. Savalas always looks great in a poster (although the flash of my camera doesn’t help this one sadly). The film is a bit of a mess really although has some very good bits every now and then. To be honest I was struggling to stay awake for a fair chunk of it which obviously didn’t help. Apparently the Kino Lorber release really helps so maybe I’ll have to get a copy of that and give it another chance.
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Spagvemberfest 2021
Day 21
A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die (Valerii / 1972)
Badly creased with some tears along those crease lines means this one sheet doesn’t see the light of day very often. But this seemed a good enough reason. The film itself is baggy in the first half but I always enjoy the Fort Holman climax. Always forget how little you actually see of Savalas though. One of the most memorable death scenes but doesn’t show up until the film is half done. Wonder if he had a Kinski type contract.
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Day 22
Drummer of Vengeance (Gariazzo / 1971)
And this one gets me up to date. A pretty uninspired Aussie poster for a pretty uninspired film. I have a terrific fandub DVDr taken from the French DVD release which makes the film probably look better than it deserves although the little drummer toy is a nice conceit. Ty Hardin’s god awful disguises are a low point though. I mean it’s not terrible but it could have been so much better. Maybe I’m just tired.
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- Corbucci: The Great Silence
-A masterpiece of spaghetti cinema. 10/10
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This review is spot on
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Day 22 - Scalps
A couple of fellow friends from Facebook suggested that I should watch the twin brother film of White Apache. Made sence to me. Gonna watch it tonight.
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Day 22: My Horse…My Gun…Your Widow (1972) with Craig Hill, Claudie Lange, and Chris Huerta. During the Civil War, Hill plays a doctor who steals gold from a bank safe with his safecracker partner and a Mexican bandit (Huerta), named Carresco. Carresco and his gang strong-arm the gold cache from Hill and his partner. In turn, Lange is using Carresco to get the gold for herself. The safecracker’s son soon also joins the chase as Hill’s new partner. This formula equals a lot of runaround. Craig Hill is charming as Doctor Saxon, and the theme song “I Guess I Better Get My Gun” is catchy. The background scenery looks more like Colorado than Confederate Texas. Sadly, there was no new cinematic territory covered by this Juan Bosch (a.k.a. John Woods) movie. I give it a 4/10.
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