Sounds interesting, I know my brother (9 years older) liked her in other films I guess (or just for more obvious reason 
) in the middle of 1960’s . Should at least watch it some day.
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Spagvemberfest 2025
Day 25
Where the Bullets Fly (Grieco / 1972)
It’s 1972 and a comedy so expectations are rightly very low. I’ve seen worse but it’s obviously not very good at all. Hadn’t seen it in many years and I wasn’t missing anything. Marisa Mell is always welcome and Antonio Sabato is OK in his Trinityesque role but that’s about as much as can be said for it.
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Let me know if you find the first Clint the Stranger streaming somewhere! I did a cursory look and couldn’t find it. But I didn’t do due diligence and even know I was watching a sequel. Maybe it is only a semi-related, Return of Ringo thing. But I’m intrigued. I won’t spoil anything but the one I watched contains red-tinted flashbacks that I just assumed were inspired by FAFDM. 
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I’m glad you also have a love/hate with this one. The first time I saw it I liked it a lot, but the second time I didn’t nearly as much. Maybe a 3rd watch will balance it out. But you’re right, Frank Wolf steals the show!
1966 - Seven Dollars on the Red
If HBO wants to reboot this one, they could name it “And Starring Fernando Sancho as Himself”.
Anthony Steffen and Fernando Sancho star in this familial western revenge drama. Johnny Ashley’s wife is murdered (seven dollars left behind on her red dress) and son kidnapped, to be raised by the infamous, impotent outlaw named Sancho.
There’s a lot of genre fun here. A catchy score, a dandy guy with a whip, over-acting-anguished-face scrunching, pretty good action, and a finale that is so beautifully gloomily, it almost elevates my rating.
3/5.
Would anyone be interested in doing a spaghetti western watch party, perhaps via Discord? Maybe pick one streaming on Prime?
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So far, like you, I can’t find Clint the Stranger either. I will definitely let you know if I find it though 
!
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Day 25: Any Gun Can Play
Rewatch. Fun, never great but fun, and is in dire need of some TLC. The commonly available print looks worse and worse every passing moment.
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Day 25: My Name is Pecos (aka. 2 Once di Piombo)(1966) Directed by Maurizio Lucidi. Starring Robert Woods, Pier Paolo Capponi, Giuliano Raffaelli, Cristina Iosani, Lucia Modugno, and Umberto Raho. They say vengeance is best served cold. But I prefer my vengeance red hot and full of rage. If you like yours the same way, Pecos Martinez does not disappoint. Pecos (Woods) returns to the town of Huston to have his revenge against murderous, racist thug Joe Clane (Capponi). Meanwhile, Clane and his gang are after part of the loot from a recent robbery that one of his men steals for himself. Whether it’s the slimy, back-stabbing undertaker Morton (Raho), Clane’s racist, rapist goons (one is played by George Eastman and he’s on film for mere seconds) or Clane himself, all of them deserve a one-way trip to Boot Hill.
My Name is Pecos was the first SW I saw with Robert Woods. So, it’s my favorite western with the American leading man. I picked the poster under the movie’s alternative title, “Two Ounces of Lead,” for my post since the style and colors have a more Mexican flavor. Rating: 4.5/5.
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SPAGVEMBER FEST 2025
Day 25
Black Jack (1968)
Rewatch
One of the three finer darker entries in the SW genre, Black Jack is as much a character study as it is a gritty and engrossing revenge tale. The audience basically watches as a man goes from a morally ambiguous/grey way of living to downright madness after he’s beaten, crippled and is unable to save his sister from being raped, murdered, and scalped. One of the few occasions the audience starts to lose sympathy with a character as he goes deeper and deeper into revenge, and in some cases became worse than the men he’s after.
Site favorite Robert Woods gives one of his two finest performances as “Black” Jack Murphy. At first a decent guy who happens to be an outlaw with questionable scruples, Jack soon sees everything come down around him as his ex associates maim him in a double cross and his sister is violated, murdered, abd desecrated. What makes “Black” Jack Murphy such a tragic figure is that he kind of knows he’s going down a road of no return as he goes after his former associates, telling the woman he loves to forget him.
Mimmo Palmera, a versatile Italian character actor, gives an outright sinister performance as Indian Joe. An Apache outlaw and guide with little regard for much, it’s Joe who sets in motion the trail of revenge and tears when he gives up Jack’s location to his enemies. He’s practically obsessed on a deranged level with Jack’s sister, and in fit of anger at her rejections, mercilessly scalps her. Palmera doesn’t say a word, save for a Native war cry, which only adds to the creepiness of the character.
While bordering on occasional over exaggerated theatrics, Black Jack is still a fine entry in the SW genre
4.5/5
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- Baldi: Forgotten Pistolero
-This is such a melodramatic film and with the bright colours (at least that’s how my german dvd looks) it feels like if Douglas Sirk had made a spaghetti western in technicolor. And personally I’m a huge fan of Sirk so that’s not a bad thing. Another minor classic with one of the most known sw music outside Leone/Morricone scores. 8/10
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Spagvemberfest 2025
Day 26
Sonny & Jed (Corbucci / 1972)
Checked out my review of this one from back in 2009 and my feelings haven’t changed much.
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I have always thought that the revenges involved were continuously logical/acceptable - but I am no PK guy
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I also rewatched this for Spagvember 2025. In general I am fond of the Corbucci SW of the 70’s. I think this one is very well made, with a great cast and beautiful score. In the first 20-30 it is painful to watch Milians character but with a certain kind of black humour (that I have) it may also be a lot of fun. In fact it is interesting to see the development of Sonny and Jeds characters. To me a good SW.
7,5/10
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Though the relationship between relationship dynamics between William Bogard and Gianni Garko becomes a cliche of the genre of the quick-witted, slippery Mexican frenemy and the “shoot from the hip,” straight guy gringo (e.g. The Big Gundown; TGTBATU; and Run Man Run), there are some funny scenes with the two of them. There’s one scene that had me laughing pretty hard over something joking that Bogard character Marcos did to Garko’s character Sartana.
I thought the movie Last of the Badmen had too many tropes already used from earlier, better SW’s. You may have already seen it. But, I prefer the prequel Kitosch, The Man Who Came From the North (1967) with George Hilton. The original gives a better character study on Kitosch’s background and it takes place in Canada with the Mounties and French-allied renegade Indians. Which was refreshing.
- Corbucci: Sonny & Jed
-Funny coincidence but my last one was also S & J. One of My favorites from Corbucci. 8/10
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Day 26: Seven Dollars on the Red
Rewatch.
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Day 26: Four Came to Kill Sartana (1969) Directed by Demofilo Fidani. Starring Jeff Cameron, Franco Ricci, Simone Blondell, Grazia Giuvi, Benito Pacifico, and Umberto Raho. When bandits led by a mysterious arch-criminal figure in a dark cloak and hat start kidnapping loved ones of Clayton City’s leaders, Mayor Frank Colony (Ricci) hires Sartana (Cameron), who apparently decided to go bottle blond. In response, the mysterious figure hires four professional killers to take out Sartana.
I didn’t know this until this review. But, the lovely Simone Blondell (real name, Simonetta Vitelli), who plays Frank Colony’s kidnapped lady friend Susy, is director Fidani’s daughter in real life! I always wondered about their relationship. Scenes from the movie (especially with Benito Pacifico) were lifted and used in The Django Story. Rating: 2/5.
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SPAGVEMBER FEST 2025
Day 26
La Morte Non Conta i Dollari (1967)
Rewatch.
I never cease to have a fun time when watching this mid tier Western. Riccardo Freda’s only contribution to the genre is a solidly entertaining one, mixing Western action and a little mystery with the closed mouth main characters in Harry Boyd and Lawrence White. The goal of course is to keep an outlaw family from taking over a town, which is done quite effectively.
Mark Damon and Stephen Forsyth make for a unique duo: Damon with his lovable 32 teeth grin and Forsyth with a hard stoic face as they use their own brands of wit and skill to find out why the town’s beloved leader was killed and to weed out the guilty parties.
Nello Pazzafini makes for one hell of a bad guy in Doc Lester with his hard looking face and menacing eyes.
The fist fight between Damon and Pazzafini near the end is one of the three best choreographed fights in the genre, both actors giving their best.
I know some fans are a little annoyed at the “really happy” ending the film gets, but I think it fits just fine, and once in a while is needed to keep the SW output in balance.
A must go-to fun Western fans will have fun with any time.
4/5
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Step-daughter to be precise.
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