I don’t want to be that guy, but wouldn’t this thread be more appropriate in the Town Hall, seeing as it will discussing Spaghetti Westerns exclusively?
As an appetizer to this month’s movie fest I finished off Three Amens for Satan[url]http://Three Amens for Satan|http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Vendetta_è_un_piatto_che_si_serve_freddo,_La[/url] last night and was pleasantly surprised. I watched it through the UK C’est La Vie disc and, despite the letterbox presentation, I enjoyed myself all the way through. It’s a solid example of a hidden gem. The cast is filled with recognizable names and roles: Leonard Mann is doing his usual Steffen impression, Elizabeth Eversfield is suitably delicious, Kinski is his usual madcap bit-part self (complete with “generous participation” role in the credits!), and Ivan Rassimov bites as the villainous antagonist. There’s enough gunfights to keep you satisfied, the poster sequence lives up to expectations, and the music does the picture justice. Definite Alt 20 material in my book ;D
Tonight I think I’ll officially begin the month off with Get Mean. The Blu-Ray came in a couple days ago and I have yet to give it a view.
Fair point, JW.
I just stuck it here because folk have been discussing it up to now under another thread in the saloon. I can shift it pretty easily though.
As suggested, I have now moved this topic to the Town Hall section where it is probably more appropriate.
[quote=“scherpschutter, post:4, topic:3590”]Already loaded up this text on another thread, but Phil’s right, this month’s event deserves its own thread, so here I go:
By means of a kick-off of Last Caress’s WESTERN MONTH I rewatched and reviewed the Hilton Sartana
It was a pleasant rewatch. I had not watched a Sartana in a couple of years, so I can’t say in what place it’ll be on my Sartana list, but I’m pretty sure it won’t be bottom.
Actually, I was pleasantly surprised. Hilton lacks some of Garko’s badass image, but he does a pretty good job here
I planned to rewatch all Sartana’s in the next couple of weeks, probably in reverse (or random) order (I think A Cloud of Dust … will be next, because it’s closest in spirit to this one)
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Have still only ever watched this in the fullscreen version included in a bunch of those cheap box sets but I do have a widescreen fandub copy that I ripped from CG somewhere I think. I should probably give it another view to judge it properly as the fullscreen doesn’t really do it justice at all.
That’ll have to wait till next month though I’m afraid.
Last seen in 2011, and before that in 2008 in cut version, I finally watched the longer Koch version as this could now break into my Top 20… maybe?
What’d I think then…?
Cowards Don’t Pray
2008 - “Taste of Vengeance. English language (version by C.D.C. it says) with Dutch subs, Directed by Marlon Sirko(?), widescreen and a good print. ;D 96 mins. … Great film in my book.”
2011 - “I watched this again last night. Not much more to report.
It’s still a great ride, but really Just wanted to remind Phil of Lorenzo Robledo’s inglorious end in this.
Did a longer fansubdub ever surface?”
Well of course it did, and I actually prefer this longer version. So it could break in. (Only time in the form of Spagvember will tell.)
Besides it fleshing out the sheriff’s (Rassimov) character with all that family-feud stuff, it also allows him to play a stupidly unfeasible spag-game as well, with a two gun version of russian-roulette. This follows on from Garko’s cigar-in-the-dark and gun-joust malarkey. All good spag-nonsense! :o 8) ???
The highlights… for we all know the story…
… poor Lorenzo gets a reprieve only to get shot in the back accidentally by his own buddies. 
The whip-happy sadistic and narcissistic spoilt dandy adds some revenge-worthy stuff, particularly humorously when Brian (Garko) demands $2,000 off daddy for being out of pocket for killing his son. When I mention humour here, it’s obviously of the dark variety. This is a gritty and nihilistic slice of spaghetti-pie – which is why it is in my top 30 of course… as will be most the others I reckon.
The finale stuff after Brian’s capture starts great – with even less of that Requiescant fort left for them to rest up in (as also seen in Killer Kid yesterday) - the year since ain’t been kind to that fort. But to make amends, there was more of the ubiquitous wolf-loop (as also heard yesterday) to add to the foreboding sense of doom, death and destiny that the night-timey atmosphere lends.
One down - 29 to go… 
… I’d better give it a mark, and out of five stars aint gonna do here (as they’re all gonna be 3 and a half stars and above). So if I’m to evaluate better… my mark for Cowards don’t Pray is 14.75 out of 20.
This spaghfest sounds like a madness fitting to my deviant mind. So, let’s give it a try. I don’t know yet what to watch but I was thinking of going chronologically, picking some favorites and the ones I’ve been planning to rewatch, starting from 1961 to maybe 1980. Maybe I could find something I haven’t seen yet too.
So the first one was Robert Hossein’s beautiful The Taste of Violence[url]http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Goût_de_la_violence,_Le[/url] (1961)
-Top20 film for me even though I’m still not sure if I should qualify it as a spaghetti western. Sort of a forebear of the genre I guess.
9/10
It could’ve started earlier. At any rate, I’ll soon publish my review of the Get Mean BluRay…
Yes, will force me to see ones I need to see
Well done to those than can go through with this
Sticking with one genre for a whole month is madness though and would make movie watching an endurance test instead of fun for me but if you’ve got the mentality for it its fun I guess
Good luck to all participants.
SPAGVEMBERFEST 2015 - THE BIG RUNDOWN: NUMBER 29
President’s bullet-ridden body in the street,
Ride Johnny, ride!
Kennedy’s shattered head hits concrete,
Ride Johnny, ride!
Johnny’s wife is floundering,
Johnny’s wife is scared,
Run Jackie, run!
Texas is an outrage when your husband is dead,
Texas is an outrage when they pick up his head,
Texas is the reason that the president’s dead!
The above is, of course, Bullet, Glenn Danzig’s rather unique take on the events of November 22nd, 1963, in which US President John F. Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas, Tx, and I’m sure you’re all way ahead of me already on where I’m going with this. At #29 on my list, my spag for today is another, even more unique take on that same event: The Price of Power (Valerii, 1969), in which the real 1881 assassination of President James Garfield is relocated in time and space, and dramatized into a loose practical simile of the Kennedy assassination in Dealy Plaza. Why? Oh, f*ck knows. I’ve never been one for translating allegorical messages in film. Alls I really give a gnat’s chufff about is: Is this film any good? Fortunately The Price of Power is a belter, no matter which President they’re offing.
Spagvemberfest number 29
The Fury of Johnny Kid (Puccini / 1967)
A loose re-telling of Romeo and Juliet featuring Peter Lee Lawrence in possibly his best outing in a Spag.
I obviously liked this film a lot back in 2009 when I wrote my review but I actually think I like it even more now. Number 29 just seems far too low for such a unique film. Beautifully shot with terrific composition and framing and a weird as batshit ending, what is not to like? Watched thios one with the wife and she gave it a hearty thumbs up while only falling asleep once. High praise indeed from the usually spaghetti shy wifey.
I loved it and expect it to push closer towards the top 20 by rather than top 30 by month’s end.
Here’s the link to my old review for those interested. But be warned, it is spoiler heavy.
http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Fury_of_Johnny_Kidd_Review
1962 offered mainly lame comedies and Zorro’s so I skipped it to 1963 with:
2: Blasco: Gunfight at Red Sands[url]http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Duello_nel_Texas[/url] (1963)
-One of the best pre-Leone sw’s. Harrison is a likable hero and the rest of the cast is good too. Morricone provided the rather cheesy but effective music. 6/10
[quote=“Phil H, post:17, topic:3590”][b]Spagvemberfest number 29
The Fury of Johnny Kid (Puccini / 1967)[/b]
Here’s the link to my old review for those interested. But be warned, it is spoiler heavy.
http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Fury_of_Johnny_Kidd_Review[/quote]
One of those Top 30-50 movies I haven’t seen yet. I keep them for a special occasion, so I’ll read the review after watching the movie.
Well I haven’t seen most of my Top 20 and the other assorted 10 for quite a while for the most part, so I’m looking forward to it - but who knows… 
And it’s all gone tits-up!
Last of the Badmen
Last seen in 2008, I somehow then agreed with Brother Alk0’s “8/10” - (but not quite Sartana1968’s “10/10 … a MASTERPIECE”).
So - it could make my new Top 20? Fuck n0 
in fact - it’ll be nowhere near it.
Starting out like a spag version of Confessions of a Window Cleaner it has Georgie-boy hanky-pankying his way through the farm-hands and his boss’s wives, with comical fisticuffy-choreography that would normally set the alarm bells ringing on my comedy-spagometer.
The ‘jaunty’ whistlin’ theme tune and the smirkingly “Ok - whip me, brand me, gang beat me - even hang me” twattish-attitude got me a-wondering what I ever saw in this film?! But - as knob-worthy as George’s antics get, it does improve when Tracy arrives - an uncomfortable hybrid of leather-clad paunch-illy homo-erotic, col as fuck, silent and deadly, psychopathic-epileptically-deranged madness as I ever saw in spag-dom. But, unfortunately it never made any sense this time around. There are unique elements that thrilled me before, but alas, not this time,
This one will not then be knocking on the door of my new Top 20 - or even my Top 50. But it was still fun to watch, particularly in the context of this Spagvemberfest madness …
*(which reminds me - as some sort of revenge he fuckin’ n@ils some poor bastard to a door… that he’s been carrying around with him!!! :o :-\ - that’s gotta be a first… and doubley-unhinged?) 
… 2 down, 28 to go
[quote=“Phil H, post:17, topic:3590”]Spagvemberfest number 29
The Fury of Johnny Kid (Puccini / 1967)[/quote]
It’s on my spagvember-list as well… to be seen within the next 8 days. Duel in the Eclipse next tho’. I can’t be waiting for the new version to come out - I’ll make do with my old 'un…
SPAGVEMBERFEST 2015 - THE BIG RUNDOWN: NUMBER 28
Today I’m going to bundle myself up in a couple of duvets, cup a big mug of hot choccy in my hands and hunker down to one of the chilliest spags ever made (in every sense), one I believe you’ll probably all be watching at some stage in Spagvember if you’ve followed me down the “Rundown” route: At #28 on my list, it’s The Great Silence (Corbucci, 1968), in which the good guys are the bad guys, the bad guys are the good guys and a mute bounty hunter-hunting bounty hunter bounty-hunts some bounty hunters. Corbucci’s finest spag? Possibly (although, since I’ve got another four coming up in Spagvember I guess I wouldn’t personally agree). Klaus Kinski’s finest work in a spag? Almost certainly. Of course, following on from the success of The Great Silence, Loco and Silenzio went on to star in several other buddy pictures including Clerks, Mallrats and Dogma.
3: Reinl: The Last of the Mohicans/The Last Tomahawk[url]http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Letzte_Mohikaner,_Der[/url] (1964)
Soldiers are defending a fort from mohican attacks. That’s basically the plot in this siege western, this sort of films were popular in pre-Leone years of the genre, I’ve seen quite many of these type films from the early years. I had not seen this eurowestern from Reinl before. It’s shot in Almeria instead of Yogoslavia and this makes it look more sw than his Winnetou films. Mohicans in the film have nice distinctive look instead of usual fake indians, historically it probably doesn’t make any sense to have them fighting soldiers in the late 19th century though. Anthony Steffen has his first western role as a Karl May type “man of the West” but sadly his role isn’t eventually that big.
4/10
Last seen in 2008…
Duel in the Eclipse - could this live up to the comments then… “Love it. Fantastic music to boot!” and a later comment refering to Nina’s “transparent gossamer thin blouse and pantaloons, clinging as they are to her creamy-white breasts and pert buttocks”… :o
I may redeem myself somewhat in Sir Stanton’s eyes now, because I am almost certain this one will make my new Top 20.
What else then - besides good music and womanly creaminess?
Well - a man’s time is forfeit for a swapped pocket watch; a woman strips to the thunderclaps of a dry storm; a bejewelled Alma (Femi Benussi), and her infidelities, are undone by an emerald…
Carranza (Sancho) is losing his grip on his men - and on reality - as everybody is getting spooked by the ‘Jaguar-man’. Brave Charley becomes kitten-cowardly; black-clad Corbin gets a dust-storm summoned for his duel and demise, and two-faced Tom interrupts his own funeral.
All not-so-jolly good stuff with weirdness and superstitiousness a-plenty, but hung together on a traditional one-after-another revenge format. Truly a unique take on the genre - as close as you’d get to a spooketti western!
16.66 out of 20 - plus a lucky rabbit’s foot and a “good morning Captain” just to be on the safe side 8)