It’s on its way Tigger - but don’t expect to be able to get near the tele for the mewing of li’l tigrettes, for the next coupla days. Be warned.
I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
I have to admit i liked it better than If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death with some people may find surprising i guess.
‘Une corde, un Colt’ (restored version) once again, this time with a female friend. She’s into French movies (not Westerns!!!), so she decided to give it a try and even liked it somehow 
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The classic Death Rides a Horse.
Seven Men From Now.
Another great Boetticher/Kennedy/Scott western.
Just watched Sonny & Jed again, this time on Dutch vhs (Sunrise Tapes). Very good still. Great tape too, widescreen, only very slightly cropped.
And earlier I watched Arriva Sabata (Video 49 vhs), an ok spaghetti western. Not much to say about this one. It’s never remarkable, but it’ll keep you entertained throughout. The tape is in widescreen, which was nice.
Boss Nigger has been viewed.
Mr.Fred Williamson rides into town and does his thing.
THE NAKED SPUR (1953, Anthony Mann)
With Jimmy Stewart as a fanatic bounty hunter, Robert Ryan as a smiling villain and Anthony Mann at the steering wheel, this really is a western that makes your heart sing
One problem: I recorded it from German television. I’m used to German audio for westerns but in the case of Stewart it causes some discomfort.
Apart from this, ity was not a very good dub, making sound dialogue a bit flat
Beautifully shot in the Rocky Mountains, you notice that several directors of spaghetti westerns have studied Mann’s work
despite misgivings i taped “carambola” off of sky channel " movies for men 2"and watched it as like many others i am not a fan of comedy “spaghetti westerns” but i had n’t seen this so thought would give it a try.big mistake, a dour,stupid, inane waste of time, many scenes are just rip offs of the " trinity" films which i don’t see the charm of ethier.i think the film made me laugh once and that was something stright out of the 3 stooges when the pool balls hit people smack in the face. very,very poor.i hear the sequel is even worse than this.no wonder the spaghetti western died.i actually quite liked "it can be done,amigo"when i saw it recently and so thought i could be mellowing towards the comedy spaghettis,carambola has bought all the old hatred back.
Starblack has been viewed.
Not bad at all this one, and the Robert Woods character even sings a few songs whilst his mum is doing some knitting, but then the next minute a character is getting whipped to death…so something for everybody in this one.
Blood On The Moon/ Robert Wise/1948 Excellent noir-ish western. It’s noir in look and appearance but not so much in story and characters. Robert Mitchum is great in this, I like him better here, even more than Pursued (Walsh/1947). I really much more prefer my westerns dark so I was surprised that I liked this as much as I did. But it had a great “look” and was stunning in its great B & W images. In terms of my preferences, it reminded me a little of Open Range (Costner/2003) in that it is fairly traditional in its presentation but very good and likeable. In fact, when I thought about it, I recognized that Costner’s outfit/costume in Open Range is very, very similar to Mitchum’s in Blood. Wonder if he found an influence there… Curiously, Mitchum gets his hat shot off in an early scene in the film and there is a noticeable hole in his hat throughout the rest of the film. Often times in westerns (For a Few, for instance) no matter how many times a hat gets hit, it shows no damage.
The Stalking Moon/Robert Mulligan/1969 Can be summed up as “Atticus Finch in buckskin”. I saw this on TV years ago as an adolescent. It had left a big impression and I had not seen it since. The Suevia DVD that I have of it is only full screen and the picture is not particularly great. But, still, it is a film that takes great advantage of its on-location scenes. It “looks” real and authentic in its Southwestern style, in a similar way to Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (Peckinpah/72). Gregory Peck is good, though perhaps a little old for the role. Not particularly spry, but perhaps that is part of the point. Robert Forester looks really young and plays a half breed scout well. Interestingly, it is Forester who narrates the excellent documentary The Spaghetti West (Gregory/2003). All in all an interesting western that mixes and blends a number of western themes into a fine, tense story.
With Sitting Bull At The Spirit Lake Massacre/Bradbury/1927 Wow. A really racist silent western feature-length film from the mid-1920’s. Sitting Bull is played by a Native American actor but is portrayed as nefarious, manipulative and cowardly. Basically, a “white trash” family (they really use this expression) teams up with a bunch of drunken Indians to wipe out (nearly) an entire town (Spirit Lake, Iowa). Not that westerns are generally historically accurate, but this one twists facts to fit it own brand of contemporary prejudice. If you know anything about the “real” Sitting Bull this will be a little hard to watch. Interesting as an cinematic “artifact” of the early years of western film production. Released on DVD by Televista.
The Battle Of Elderbush Gulch/D. W. Griffith/1913 A short “two-reeler” (about 20 minutes) from Griffith’s early career. A real classic. Seeing the previously mentioned silent film sent me back to re-view this one. For such a short film, it is dense with action, symbols, and meaning. Equally racist as Spirit Lake, it is, nevertheless a much better film. Indians go on the warpath and attempt to wipe out a white settlement along with several newly arrived inhabitants. Aside from wanting to eat some really cute puppies (I’m not making this up) the Indians mercilessly kill men, women AND children. The battle between settlers besieged in a cabin and the circling, swirling mass of Indians is a highly dramatic and intense (even by today’s standards) sequence. The idea of saving the last bullet for the white woman (to spare her the horrors associated with capture) is, perhaps first used cinematically here. It becomes much used throughout westerns subsequently. Famously, in Ford’s Stagecoach/1939 & horrifically, in Aldrich’s Ulzana’s Raid/1972. And, in what would also become standard filmic fare, the cavalry rides to the rescue… making puppies, babies and white women safe.
Blood on the Moon is a great, a tough, a violent western. Should be more famous.
The Stalking Moon is another one I like. Stunning cinematography. Only some action scenes using fast motion are annoying. Well, it’s a bit pretentious too, but also very gripping.
Watched Fort Yuma Gold today.
Decent solid SW but not brilliant. I found all the fights to be a bit too choreographed and at times slapstick. Gemma also seems to strutt about thinking he is gods gift to the world…a shame coz he is bloody great in other stuff…Return of Ringo has got to be one of the best SWs I have seen. The bird has one of the best names ever…“Connie Breastfull”…and I liked the way the blokes all try to pronounce it tactfully. As I said IMO not great but worth a watch to pass some idle hours.
Just finished watching (for the first time) A Stranger In Paso Bravo.
Very enjoyable revenge western , although it seems that Margheriti stole some of the characters names for And God Said To Cain : Gary Hamilton, Acombar & The Santa Maria Brothers,( or was it vice-versa?).
We can all get wrapped up in watching SWs that are as obscure as possible so I also sat down today and as I aint seen it for a while I watched OUATITW…man this f*cking blew my head away yet again. What a film!
[quote=“CactusCharlieKinski, post:2694, topic:141”]Just finished watching (for the first time) A Stranger In Paso Bravo.
Very enjoyable revenge western , although it seems that Margheriti stole some of the characters names for And God Said To Cain : Gary Hamilton, Acombar & The Santa Maria Brothers,( or was it vice-versa?).[/quote]
I am sure there has been quite a lot of discussion on this point elsewhere but it is late and I am getting a bit squiffy so will look tomorrow. Cheers Cactus…Hic!
You are most likely correct, at the time of posting it it was well after midnight and i was in a sleep induced state and wasn’t up to doing a search. [laughs]
Albertini: Twilight Avengers[url]http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Vendicatori_dell’Ave_Maria%2C_I[/url] (dvd-r)
-Another circus western from early 70’s. Light hearted stuff but no pure comedy and it’s entertaining enough. Better than Boot Hill for sure.
Poor, poor Boot Hill baby, nobody likes you …
Here you go Ennio this might interest you…
http://www.spaghetti-western.net/forum/index.php/topic,1170.0.html
re - A Stranger in Paso Bravo.
Edit : Oops…this was meant for Cactus…sorry Ennio.