What did you think of it? It’s one of my favorites that I have seen.
I really liked it, unfortunately the version I watched was in 4:3 Ratio and only with german options.
La bataille de San Sebastian
Saw it on Tv a few years ago, got one version in English, but never rewatched, now I bought the DVD from a new Portuguese Company.
It’s pretty straighforward, and nothing as I remenbered, It’s nice to see Quinn, Bronson, and the beautiful Silvia Pinal (from the Bunuel movies), it was shot in Mexico, so i do not have that feeling of some SW, filmed in Spain, that are happening in some of my mountain bike trails.
The Bronson character, could be a litlte more developed, and it’s a little bit wasted, Verneuil tries to give us some message but it’s lost on the way, I got the feeling that Tecla was right anyway. In Western terms, well is not a SW for shure or even influenced it, both in scrip and filming terms, its something like a clssical one made by a French director.
The gals are pretty nice both Silvia and Anjanette Comer are both more than enought for someone the left priesthood behind whithout second thoughts
Well give a 6 in 10, Verneuil ihs at his best in I comme Icare or Peur sur la ville, it goes to my all Broson movies objective (got to find that twiligh zone episode)
And a screwed up ending!
Tonight I watched And God Said to Cain, which was OK, but I was a bit nonplussed by it. Could have been a lot better.
Followed by The Specialist, which I really enjoyed. 
A strange one but a good one.
Nothing wrong with the ending.
If it was the German DVD, it had the wrong ending.
Not the wrong ending, that’s only available on VHS copies, but the DVD has an incomplete ending with important parts missing.
Have you also got favourites you haven’t seen, John ? 8)
It’s been a while so viewed Django…classic stuff.
Will have to try and use some lines from the film someday " Who I know or who I don’t know is no concern of yours " ;D .
Yeah, I see what you mean. The sentence was a bit ambiguous.
[quote=“ENNIOO, post:6810, topic:141”]It’s been a while so viewed Django…classic stuff.
Will have to try and use some lines from the film someday " Who I know or who I don’t know is no concern of yours " ;D .[/quote]
I like the english dub as well, even if it sounds a bit awkward
Good line that one
“Return Of The Gunfighter” (1967)
-Robert Taylor. Chad Everett
Plot: IMDB
An aging gunman and a wounded drifter come upon a young Mexican girl, and agree to help her avenge the death of her parents, who was murdered for their land
Phantom’s Review: This movie is terrific. The plot is a bit standard but the performances from the actors and the action more than makes up for it. A highly entertaining movie.
A good one ! Is there any release of this so far?
Ride the High Country (Peckinpsh/62)
An early Peckinpah, and a excellent one at that. The two leads, Scott and McCrea are very good and give the film the great performences it deserves.
[quote=“John Welles, post:6815, topic:141”]Ride the High Country (Peckinpsh/62)
An early Peckinpah, and a excellent one at that. The two leads, Scott and McCrea are very good and give the film the great performences it deserves.[/quote]glad you liked it John. i was wondering what you would think of it. i love it, the final scene is a great and moving one always brings a tear to the eye.There are not too many fans of it on here, but i think it’s a great film, great music as well.
" Alias Jesse James" saw this on TCM2 on Sky and doesn’t turn up that often.Middling Bob Hope comedy western a long trail behind " The Paleface" and " Son of Paleface". Wendell Corey is an odd choice to play Jesse James to my mind. Film follows the usual Hope plotlines and was beginning to look jaded at this late stage ( 1959). Film has it’s amusing moments and the climax features popular t.v western heroes of the time in small walk on parts such as "Hugh O’Brien, Ward Bond, Roy Rogers and also special appearance of Gary Cooper and Bing Crosby of course.harmless but not much.
“The Alamo” With John Wayne has been watched. It’s a decent film, but it’s to long-winded.
6/10.
Count me in. Perhaps Peckinpah’s most perfectly realised movie, with powerful direction, pathos and impeccable performances from two great Western icons.
I just saw Backlash, a neglected John Sturges Western from the Fifties that trades in many of the same themes as Anthony Mann’s movies of the period (it has a screenplay by Borden Chase that would have suited Mann’s partnership with James Stewart).
Richard Widmark plays the hard-bitten hero, whose search for the cowardly survivor of an Indian attack that supposedly claimed Widmark’s father among its victims has tragic consequences, and echoes, furthermore, the denouement of Mann’s Man of the West.
Well worth tracking down (there’s a nice DVD presentation in the UK by Optimum).
Viewed North Star.
Head of a mining company (played by James Caan) brings out a new rule to stop non Americans from staking gold claims. A half breed is not to happy about this and not long before the film turns into a chase movie.
Set in an artic landscape and was part written by Sergio Donati. Fast paced but not much character development as only a short film at around 83 mins.[font=courier new][/font]