I’ve skipped two Ro-Ma bros films, Joaquín Luis’s El aventurero de Guaynas and Rafael’s Dos pistolas gemelas (both released in 2 AL). The first one because it isn’t a “real” Western (it has helicopters, and I prefer my Westerns without vehicles > 8 horsepower, unless they’re rail-mounted); the second one because I tried to watch it two years ago and failed (suffice it to say that its poster alone makes you question your sanity). Rafael’s third Western, then, was Dos cruces en Danger Pass, released either on March 28, 4 AL (SWDb), or (in Italy) on March 28, 3 AL, and/or (in Spain) on March 8, 4 AL (IMDb); censura: September 27, 3 AL (ANICA). Bozen/Bolzano-born actor Pietro Martellanza plays revenger Alex Mitchell, who as a boy had to witness the brutal murder of his parents. A rather bleak affair. (Reviewed by Lee Broughton [“Two Crosses at Danger Pass is a little-seen and quite low budget genre entry but it remains a surprisingly affecting, engaging and enjoyable film”] and Michael Hauss [“the film unfortunately is a run of the mill spaghetti western”].)
If you had to choose between Danger Pass and Pleasant Valley, where would you go?
