I actually beg to differ, I thought Sette donne was better, but since my memories of the original are almost non-existent and it has Rob Woods in it, I might change my opinion after a rewatch.
Yes, more forest situated showdowns! I love it.
Why, if you can’t remember it !?
My diary remembers for me.
Love this one, Tatsuya Nakadai made one of the best SW villains ever. A Top 10 or Top 20 list villain for sure.
Spagvember Fest Day 25
Una Pistola per Ringo
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Losing count on the rewatches for this. Ringo’s inaugural debut in the SW World is now a yearly tradition for me to watch every Spagvember. I don’t have to go into detail as to why I like it so much, it’s a pure classic. This would be a perfect double bill with the Bruce Willis classic Die Hard as they have a similar structure.
And with this I bid Adios to this year’s Fest. I did a whole lot better than I thought I would, I was expecting to feel a burnout some time after Day 15, but I kept the flow consistent. Now I’m ready to dive into Christmas and enjoy my Holiday specials Blu Rays.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all.
Day 25: Raise Your Hands, Dead Man, You’re Under Arrest (1971)
PLL pretends to be an Avon lady to exact revenge on land-grabbing bully boy. 5/10
- Baldanello: Blood River
-Here’s a one I didn’t remember anything about at all. Soap-opera western with fake indians and fake mustaches. I didn’t understand the ending so I had to check film’s topic where I was asking about it when I saw this last time. 5/10
The huge hands poster! I love that one.
Day 25: ‘I Lunghi Giorni Della Vendetta’ The Long Days of Vengeance (1967)
No messing about tonight - Top 20 classic, Top 5 Gemma Western (My own statistics )
… and yes, he does break out of prison, so we know it’ll be a good 'un!
Just stickin’ with the good stuff for the next couple of nights, and this one’s a real favorite 8/10
Spagvemberfest 2021 Day 25: TWO BROTHERS IN TRINITY aka JESSE AND LESTER (1972).
Even though I’ve been watching some pretty good ones of late, a bit of spaghetti western fatigue is starting to creep into our household. My wife is dead sick of them and wants me to not watch them when she’s around, and even I’m beginning to wear out a bit. So what do I do? I do something foolish like gamble on a comedy western, which can often be a losing bet. Thankfully, I have a higher than normal tolerance for these, and this one turned out to be relatively painless.
Both main characters are likable, the stars have decent chemistry, and the film rarely delves into slapstick idiocy like pie fights. There’s only one bar brawl, and it’s not overlong, and while nothing is hilarious, it did make me smile a few times. There are a few jarring moments of violence courtesy of the rather motley villains, and the film does ramble quite a bit in the middle, but I found this to be much better than expected and at least mildly entertaining. I know this movie is hated by a lot of folks but I’ve seen much worse. ANYTHING FOR A FRIEND, anyone? 6/10.
Day 25: Bandidos (1967) with Enrico Maria Salerno, Terry Jenkins, and Venantino Venantini. After a couple of days of watching duds, Dallamano’s movie buoyed my spaghetti-watching spirit. Great story, well-developed characters, great cinematography, and a rousing theme song made this gain a place in my Top 10 list. I give it 9/10.
Spagvemberfest 2021
Day 25
One Silver Bullet (Ferroni / 1965)
My run in for this Spagvemberfest is likely to be pretty full of Gemma films as I have quite a few posters with him on it. This one is another Yugoslavian one. I love these early Gemma flicks. All good guys and bad guys with happy endings but so what. They suited his style down to the ground and he was fabulous in them. Watched my Japanese Macaroni Western DVD of it which is still the best quality version I have and still looks good enough on my TV.
Day 26
Ride for a Massacre aka Ultimate Gunfighter aka Fury of Johnny Kid 1967
Dove si spara di più - The Spaghetti Western Database (spaghetti-western.net)
A perfect role for the baby-faced Peter Lee Lawrence, playing “Romeo” opposite Cristina Galbo’s “Juliet”. It is amazing how many classics worked so well when re-set in the spaghetti west and, for me, this is one of the better of those efforts as there are probably few better settings to tell the tale of two warring families. The writers were obviously unhappy with the Bard’s overall conclusion to the story though and decided to offer their own twist which results in carnage on an epic scale - just what a spaghetti western fan adores. This movie has the distinction of concluding with one of the most bizarre, out of nowhere, off the wall scenes in history. But, either for better or worse in the eyes of the viewer, it provides a “Wow!” moment to conclude the film. As for me, I absolutely love it.
Love this one - PLL at his best
Day 26: ‘The Man Who Killed Billy the Kid’ (1967) aka ‘A Few Bullets More’, ‘I’ll Kill Him and Return Alone’
Another excellent PLL vehicle - I’ve got a full length composite version to watch, which has inserts from an Italian print … Haven’t seen this for a while but looking forward to checking out the extra scenes.
I really like this one as well. Though not necessarily historically accurate, I enjoy movies with historical characters. My one fault with the German release I have is the sudden jumps in time that did little to explain or show us exactly what he had done during that time to deserve all this attention he was getting. Maybe the additional footage will smooth that out a bit.
- Santi: The Grand Duel
-Oh, how the time flies, it’s been 10 years already last time I saw this. And first I wasn’t sure if I wanted to pick this one for this year because “I just saw it”. I think this is kinda frustrating film because the first 15 minutes are so good: the music, the directing, Lee van Cleef, the mood… you’d think this is as good as Leone and then it just degenerates to a such an indifferent film. 6/10