Costa: Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West[url]http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Buffalo_Bill%2C_l'eroe_del_far_west[/url] (dvd-r)
-pretty boring early sw in cowboys vs indians style.
After I watched Kill Them All and Come Back Alone I watched Keoma.
Keoma is a perfect example of the rare “revenge for a dysfunctional family” theme.
I wish I had the patience to try to figure out the words to the songs. They are important to understanding the story and character motivations but I got really aggravated at having to listen to them over and over and gave up.
Just viewed Django Against Sartana.
Just sat back and enjoyed the gunplay and grim looking Spaghetti faces . Some 70’s style haircuts and fashion in the film.
Viewed a nice widescreen T.V print from the Movies For Men channel.
Well I saw Taste of Death again and it’s in my top 20 now
saw" blackjack ketchum, desperado"(1956) last night.
Ex gunfighter (Howard Duff) aims to settle down but ends up fighting for townspeople against a ruthless cattle baron(Victor Jory)who has an army of fast guns.
Familar plot but not too badly done little " B" western made in black and white and a short running time of 76 minutes. A couple of good moments but film is seriously hampered by a hurried and extremly tame ending that looks suspiciously like they ran out of money.
saw “Tall Man Riding”(1955) this afternoon.Solid and better than expected Randolph Scott vehicle who gives a commanding performance. Plot gets quite complicated with it’s twists and turns , it has the usual holes in the plot and has the occasional unintentional smile where for example in a fight scene it is obviously two stuntmen standing in for the protaganists.Film trails off into a cliched climax but holds the interest most of the way.
Django kill … if you live shoot!
It’s so weird that I can only say Great! ;D
[quote=“Paco Roman, post:4347, topic:141”]Django kill … if you live shoot!
It’s so weird that I can only say Great! ;D[/quote]
It’s funny. I’ve seen this probably half a dozen times. I did not like it very much the first time. But each time I’ve seen it my estimation of it goes up.
Now I love it.
Hey in his interview on Kil Them All, Giovanni Cianfriglia say Tomas Milian is gay. Is that widely known/accepted? Does anybody know?
[quote=“Romaine Fielding, post:4348, topic:141”]It’s funny. I’ve seen this probably half a dozen times. I did not like it very much the first time. But each time I’ve seen it my estimation of it goes up.
Now I love it.
Hey in his interview on Kil Them All, Giovanni Cianfriglia say Tomas Milian is gay. Is that widely known/accepted? Does anybody know?[/quote]
I think that is just Cianfriglia being his usual outspoken self and jumping to conclusions about Milian’s friendship with his spanish double. I’ve read an interview with Nieves Navarro where she says that Milian hung out with the guy a lot but that there was nothing gay about it. They just got along well.
Old Giovanni may be a bit snarky. He even says, I think, that Milian was not a “real man”.
He also suggests that Frank Wolff killed himself because he was impotent.
Cianfriglia was macho guy from a very macho culture.
[quote=“Romaine Fielding, post:4350, topic:141”]Old Giovanni may be a bit snarky. He even says, I think, that Milian was not a “real man”.
He also suggests that Frank Wolff killed himself because he was impotent.
Cianfriglia was macho guy from a very macho culture.[/quote]
Exactly.
By the way, I had a look for that Nieves Navarro interview and here’s the link.
Unfortunately it’s all in Spanish but hey, you live in California right? I’m sure you can handle it.
[quote=“Phil H, post:4351, topic:141”]Exactly.
By the way, I had a look for that Nieves Navarro interview and here’s the link.
Unfortunately it’s all in Spanish but hey, you live in California right? I’m sure you can handle it.[/quote]
Haha. I DO speak a little Spanish. I’ll give it a look. Muchas gracias Amigo!
Of course I watched a whole bunch of stuff since I last posted here. Let’s see if I remember them all…
China 9, Liberty 37 - Finally obtained a very good looking widescreen version, so I had no more excuse not to watch it. A pretty melodamatic one with little action. The nude shots of Jenny Agutter were all intact, which of course was a plus. Yet overall it wasn’t spaghetti-esque enough for my taste and a lot of the time a boring film. Well made though, so at least worth one viewing.
Kill the Wickeds - A good effort by Tanio Boccia. Atmospheric and with more brains than the average Italian western. Nice themesong too.
Whisky and Ghosts - Don’t know what Margheriti tried to do here. A conman gets stalked by the alcoholic ghost of Davy Crockett. Turned it off after half an hour, but will give it a retry when I have enough alcohol in the house.
Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead - The second time I watched it. This is one hell of a boring movie. I didn’t care much for the plot and the fact that it takes forever to tell it, didn’t help either. Kinski is great, but no Superman. He couldn’t save it.
I’ll Forgive You, Before I Kill You - Good one. Sancho, Blanc and Harrison are all in good form. Bosch wraps it up nicely, while playing a little with the western cliches without turning it into a comedy. I watched a nicely fandubbed English version, with the print taken from a sattelite broadcast.
Colt in the Hand of the Devil - A solid one from Bergonzelli, with a nice cast. A predictable storyline, but what the hell.
That’s about it, form the top of my head.
I have just got that print in aswell, and yes very nice indeed.
What a difference with that crappy American disc…
Watched The Unholy Four and No Room To Die last night.
I found The Unholy Four to be decent, music was not the best as it kept repeating itself and was a bit on the light side. I found No Room To Die a lot more enjoyable. Having Mario Brega and William Berger in it helped immensely. Anthony Steffen was well cast in it too. Plot was good, music was very good, and lots of gun fights.
I forgot about this one. I bought the Italian dvd for 5 euro in Rome on a market on the Piazza del Popolo. Had watched it a couple of times before and rewatched it again after the purchase. A good one indeed!
That is the same DVD that I got - great release.
Bandidos (1967)
Enjoyed that one very much. A very well scripted SW with a good music score. 
Watched .32 Caliber Killer again last night.
I’m not a big PLL fan but this one is very good I think. I prefer him in this type of role to that of earnest youngster. The dialog was quite clever at times. And funny.
PLL drank boilermakers in this one. Said his Granny used to love’em.
The gorgeous Helene Chanel (Cjamango) is hidden behind the Sheryll Morgan moniker and to further confuse things, she’s a blonde in this one. But those eyes are unmistakable.
One funny thing: the steciled boxes and the sign at the railroad construction site say “South Pacific” instead of Southern Pacific. I noticed in another Alfonso Brescia (Days of Violence) film there is a similar mistake made when they said “Viva South America” when they meant to say something like Viva the American South or Long Live the South.