watched “the man from oklahoma” last night , a cheap spaghetti western and one that doesn’t get mentioned a lot, and i’m not surprised at that because it is quite forgettable. it takes a while to get going but once it does it has one or two ok moments, and is not the worst of the genre. like most earlier SW efforts it seems more like an amercian imitation. fair at best.
Did the Wild East Edd Byrnes two-fer last night: Payment In Blood & Red Blood Yellow Gold.
Chuck Conner’s Bro said in another thread that he thought Payment In Blood was the better of the two. It all comes down to personal taste 'cause I liked Red Blood Yellow Gold much better although I thought both were fairly mundane. 
Red Blood Yellow Gold has (to me) a better cast. I though Eddy boy was pretty lame in both. But it was the weirdness of some aspects of Red Blood that make me like it more.
Payment In Blood
Not much to say about this except to say that Enzo G’s better work was ahead of him (Johnny Hamlet). Luisa Barrato sure looks fine. My favorite part was the very beginning when a voice-over calls Guy Madison’s character (Col. Thomas Blake) a “Gentleman Marauder”. Heehee. If they called him a gentleman bandit it would have been understandable. Yes, he raped and pillaged and murdered but he was really nice about it. The only thing Guy says in the first couple of minutes of the film is “Kill Them!!” He says it about ten times. Frederico Boido’s demented rodent-like face and crazed, cackling laugh was one of this films main, though brief, pleasures for me.
I love the Indian graveyard that can only be accessed by going through the town of Durango. What is it with Enzo G and his graveyard-within-a-cave thing? The plot is intentionally convoluted.
Just remember, the couple that bounty hunts together stays together.
Red Blood Yellow Gold
Jesus, I just posted yesterday about Benito Stefanelli’s silly wig in Night of the Serpent. It must be ridiculous-wig-weekend for me because George Martin sports a absurd mop of hair in this one.
The coolly coiffed “Kookie”'s hair looks great and he wears a hat only once, briefly, during the film.
George Hilton is, as usual, just great. He plays a defrocked priest/explosives expert who can, literally, smell gold/money.
In reference to real historical people/places in New Mexico during the Civil War, Nando Cicero uses both General Sibley (not a drunkard in this one) and Glorietta Pass.
But the thing I LOVED about this one were the two female freaks. The first appears as “Luisa”, the proprietor of a roadhouse cantina at which the boys (Byrnes/Hilton/Martin) stop for a refreshing beverage. She is a large, sweaty woman wedged into a rocking chair and her fat legs are too short to reach the floor. So she has some eunuch-like attendant who rocks her chair for her and does her bidding. She seems to turn him on and off by whacking him with a fan.
The next femme freak is “Mama,” the old, one-eyed matriarch of a clan of (seemingly inbred) Mexicans. Jose Bodalo plays her devoted oldest son, Primero. She dresses entirely in black and presides over her brood from a throne-like perch. When the gold inevitably winds up with the Mexicans, Primero holds up an ingot for her which she licks to test it authenticity.
Silly, unbelievable film but very enjoyable.
Thanks again, Wild East.
Just finished Apocalypse Joe.Fuckin’ crazy movie! Loved it! Brings a smile to my face. Funny as hell watchin’ Steffen dressed up like a girl,the a priest, then Macbeth, then a waitress. Great touches here. Great gunfights, and very refreshing to see Steffen doing something a little less wooden. Compare his performance in Django the Bastard to this one. Zombie like to pretending to be a cranky old man. Great! I’m definitely going to have to agree with Reverend Danite on this one.
I too just watched Apocalypse Joe.
Oh my.
Oh my?
[quote=“Romaine Fielding, post:4044, topic:141”]I too just watched Apocalypse Joe.
Oh my.[/quote]
Oh my oh my
Hey, you stole my intended-for-the-next-post line !!!
I watched Vengeance. Camaso is great!
RIO BRAVO
Classic
Navajo Joe, because for some reason the theme song cropped up in my head and I couldn’t get rid of it.
Then followed up with The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Love it when John Vernon (Fletcher) says; There’s another saying, Senator: Don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining.
He was a great choice for that role, I love his presence and voice.
“Captain” Tyrell is a bloodthirsty son of a bitch. He is a looter and a pillager. He is the worst enemy those men have got!
Great movie…
I agree on all counts, and probably one of Vernon’s best roles.
Too Much Gold for One Gringo has been viewed. Kinda funny.
La resa dei conti
with my friend, he gave a 8.5/10 !!!
A bullet for Sandoval
5/10
My Dutch language review available here:
Boots Hill (3/10) and The Price of Power (10/10).
Django was viewed last night, in Italian with English subtitles.
The only way to watch it. I’m thinking about rewatching Django with the Great Silence finished off with Specialist. Ttrying to examine these films for a possible article on the “Mud and Blood Trilogy.” If there is such a thing (Dillinger) 
Mannaja, Keoma, and California—another “Mud and Blood” Trilogy ;D