Revisited Day of Anger for the nth time.
Still my favourite SW, hands down.
Watched a double shot of Petroni last night and had a pretty good time with it, though i donāt see either cracking my top 20.
NEST OF VIPERS (1969) - I enjoyed this quite a bit with a different face in the lead and a fun story. As an aside i think the title on the Global print fits the movie better than the Italian title and the trailer is quite nice too. Not sure where RINGO KILL fits into the picture ???
Fun Factor - 6/10
DEATH RIDES A HORSE (1967) - Another goodāun, this has to have the most quotable lines of any SW iāve seen yet. And the Mr. Burns-style trap door was awesome. I also thought JPL was pretty good in the lead while LVC was his usual quiet cool. 8)
Fun Factor - 6/10
Django: The Last Killer
Canāt remeber if I already mentioned it but oh well. Well made, good acting yet boring.
Parolini: Johnny West[url]http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Johnny_West_il_mancino[/url] (dvd-r)
-laughable film, hilariously bad.
Just watched the Dorado release of Three Musketeers of the West. Oh. My. God. A review here shortly.
The FC fandub of The Big Gundown[url]http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Resa_dei_conti%2C_La[/url].
Sonny and Jed
Very different. Almost doesnāt have the spaghetti feel. But it was good anyway.
āHate For Hateā. didnāt like it. thought it boring and tedious with Antonio Sabata playing a cliched ever smiling mexican.a poor entry in the genre in my opinon.
The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox has been viewed.
Lightweight 70ās western which is not very demanding stuff, but the two stars seemed to be having fun.
Once Upon time in the West
and the Proposition
Was in the mood for looking at some false looking sets so I viewed The Road To Fort Alamo again.
Routine stuff, and is a short film.
The price of Power
Donāt know what to think of it really
Interesting and good fun to watch, but you have the idea they were trying to make several films at the time: an allegorical paranoia movie referring to JFK and a typical (if somewhat overdeveloped) Gemma movie.
And i donāt know how many inhabitants Dallas counted in the 19th century, but I guess more than a dozen or two. Nice to see some actors and sets of Once upon a Time in the West reused
And Benito Stefanelliās whiskers-beard-moustache-whatever was a wow!
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Iāll have to do some research before writing a review
Siege at Red River, a minor American Western from 1954.
Van Johnson (later to play the ill-fated President Garfield in The Price of Power) makes an amiable if lightweight lead as a Confederate officer smuggling a new wonder weapon, the Gatling gun, to the South, but the film belongs to Richard Boone, in a typically surly performance as a ruthless mercenary who steals a Gatling and sells it to the Indians.
The film is not bad, spoiled by some trite, cute scenes involving Johnson and love interest Joanne Dru, but thereās a decent battle at the end, with Indians, armed with a Gatling gun, besieging a Union fort (though the fort seems to be well beyond the gunās range).
Chisum
Itās a better one of McLaglenās westerns, which does not mean very much. Routine directing and the dialogues are an endless stream of cliches.
But the ever interesting Billy the Kid / Lincoln County War story is the reason that the film is tolerably entertaining.
Also the presence of Christopher George, one of my favourite American character actors, among the usual Wayne contingent.
And apparently Lloyd Batista is in it, too. Itās been years since Iāve seen it - did you spot him, Stanton?
I forgot all about Christopher George being in Chisum and do enjoy alot of his roles.
[quote=āStarblack, post:4855, topic:141ā]Also the presence of Christopher George, one of my favourite American character actors, among the usual Wayne contingent.
And apparently Lloyd Batista is in it, too. Itās been years since Iāve seen it - did you spot him, Stanton?[/quote]
Nope, where was he?
And Christopher George has a quite unusual role in this film, the best and also the only one which isnāt predictable, whereas all the other characters are rather typical for this old fashioned type of westerns. His Dan Nodeen could also be a part of a SW.
Thatās exactly what appealed to me about Georgeās character here; his part seems to have been written and played with SWs in mind, like Richard Booneās in Big Jake.
The Batista info is from IMDB; as I said, I havenāt seen the film in years.
RINGO; FACE OF REVENGE - Mario Caiano (1967)
A solid, middle of the road SW made enjoyable by good performances. Steffen is good as the opportunistic pistolero Ringo. Frank Wolff is fun as the smarmy huckster always looking to cut another deal and stir up trouble. But for my money, Eduardo Fajardo walks away with this film as Ringoās sidekick Tim.
Not a whole lotta revenege, but for the price of admission you do get two angry mobs. One with torches and one with pitchforks chasing a āwitchā. All in all, good SW fun. And the X-Rated disc has trailers for this film plus five other SWās.
Fun Factor - 5/10
Margheriti: Dynamite Joe[url]http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Joe_lāimplacabile[/url] (dvd-r)
-Margheritiās first western, light hearted fun.