Not for me, friend. You loved “A dollar between the teeth”? “Mannaja” is much better, IMO 
Only a little welcome joke.
But yes, I like all 3 of the Anthony / Vanzi Stranger films.
Definitely the other way around.
A Stranger in Town is a masterpiece.
Says who??
The Stranger !!
[quote=“scherpschutter, post:7324, topic:141”]Says who??
The Stranger !![/quote]
Yes, absolutely unbiased, The Stranger. ;D ;D ;D ;D
[quote=“Stanton, post:7322, topic:141”]Only a little welcome joke.
But yes, I like all 3 of the Anthony / Vanzi Stranger films.[/quote]
I don’t like that movie because it is a very very slow movie and than Tony Anthony, IMO is an anti-western face.
But of course I know that there are many fans of this movie, and is rightly so 
Anthony does have an anti western face but that’s why I like him.
Yeah, not everyone has the looks of Antonio Sancho I guess ;D, but now that you mention even Ringo Star had more SW grinta, but at least not having a SW look made him diferent and original
Yeah, Anthony looks strange on pictures, but he has the presence a film needs. The suitable strangeness for a Stranger.
Contrary to Anthony Steffen who has the looks on the pictures, but mostly not much to nothing emerges on the screen.
And Merli has the presence too.
Especially since it’s also my phones ringtone
About the “A dollar between the teeth” I can say, however, that the soundtrack is among the masterpieces of the genres along the Dollar Trilogy, “Mannaja”, “Django, prepare a coffin!” and others…
The lyrics to some of the Mannaja-songs are certainly unbeatable 
A soundtrack I frequently put on. Too bad that Merli didn’t get to do any other spaghetti western.
Your opinion is the same of mine! And I always listening the Mannaja soundtrack.
You’re… alone… a solitary man 8)
[size=10pt]La Banda J&S. Cronaca criminale del Far West / Sonny and Jed [/size] (1972)
Finally started the final segment of Corbucci’s SW production with this crude study in misogyny influenced - so it seems - by Fellini’s La Strada and Altman’s McCabe and Mrs. Miller, and, on its turn, influencing the twilight spaghetti westerns of the second half of the decade
Had seen it before, at least twenty years ago, in an awful fullscreen version and didn’t remember too much of it (only that I strongly disliked it)
I like it a bit more, actually a lot more, (I noticed now that it’s at least a beautifully looking film) but there’s still a lot missing and some of its misogynyst tendencies are hard to swallow
I saw Bud Boetticher’s finale Western with star Randolph Scott yesterday, Comanche Station. A taut little film, shot in just twelve days, which has two good performances from Scott and Claude Akins as his wily nemeses. The photography and music are respectively attractive and nice to listen to, and it defiantly deserves to be a more widely known movie.
Nice film!
I watched Boetticher’s RIDE LONESOME yesterday and loved it all over, again! I can never decide which of the Boetticher/Scott Ranown films I like best, but I have to say that RIDE LONESOME and BUCHANAN RIDES ALONE are contenders for the top position.
COMANCHE STATION isn’t far behind them, either.
I also watched a fistful of episodes of the classic TV Western, HAVE GUN–WILL TRAVEL, yesterday.
A solid series which, to me, hasn’t aged as much as some other shows from “back in the day”.
I know I’m going to catch some flack for this but the only Boetticher Western I really cared for much was Ride Lonesome. The rest, while solid, don’t go the extra mile towards being anything memorable for me.
Interesting - I don’t think I’ve come across anybody who would rank BRA near the top before. Then again Chris, you are well known for your tepid reaction to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, so being contrary is nothing new for you 
Well, for me Buchanan rides alone is one of the best too. Ride Lonesome and Comanche Station are my other favorites. For some reason I’m not too fond of The Tall T, I don’t know why, it’s by no means bad, but it doesn’t move me the way the other movies do. Decision at Sundown is definitely a minor Boetticher.
For me The Tall T is the best.
And Decision at Sundown is clearly underrated. It lacks the atmosphere of the others while shot mostly in a Studio town. But it has an abysmal story with the (anti-?)hero’s quest being based on a great mistake, and he’s really down (and drunk) at the end. the only one in which the Scott doesn’t find solution. Very unusual for a 50s western.
The 4 Kennedy scripted ones are at the centre of the Ranown cycle, while the 2 written by Lang Jr. are marking the extremes of the cycle. Buchanan as the most relaxed and on the other side Sundown as the most downbeat of the 6 films.