Yeah, the opening shot, I have mentioned it above.
God’s Gun doesn’t feel for me like a Parolini. Looks more like a Parodyni (of the unintended sort).
[quote=“Stanton, post:8201, topic:141”]Yeah, the opening shot, I have mentioned it above.
God’s Gun doesn’t feel for me like a Parolini. Looks more like a Parodyni (of the unintended sort).[/quote]
no look’s more like trash-olini
If some scenes were directed by someone else, then not Golan.
I read that the crew was dropped in the middle of the desert (near Eilat) ‘without money and without water’. It took a lot of trouble to get paid, and Parolini went personally to Tel Aviv, where Golan apparently resided, to settle things. So if anybode else took over in his absence, I suppose it must have been one of the stars, Van Cleef or Palance.
I don’t understand how anyone can call this movie dull or boring. Cheap, lousy or bad, okay, but there’s violence, rape, more violence, melodrama, hilarious wigs, some hilariously bad acting by Palance (I have a son!), you name it. I enjoyed myself perfectly well with this nonsense.
Because I lost after about 20 or 30 min any interest in the characters and what could happen to them and generally what could happen next. One of the “please god, make it short” films in which I’m spending the time with checking the time.
In these type of films the action and the violence is especially boring. Too dull to raise any interest.
I know what you mean, but the badness doesn’t make these films entertaining. And I generally prefer it to be entertained with the films and not about the films. Or to laugh with the films, not about the films.
Well, frankly said … scratch, scratch … it is hard for me to imagine not to be bored by God’s Guns. And some even like it. Which again clearly shows how different films can be viewed.
I think I’ll have to agree with Stanton on this one. I never finished it but got about as close as I wanted to. Probably even further.
Me to.
God’s gun even has a good premises to start with, but it’s clearly not a good film, even in a bad way, to be fairly to it I’ve seen it in a very bad copy (maybe a better one would help), but I did found it boring or better saying I was wishing for the end of the film, only LVC acting saves the film for me, anyway I liked more than Bad man’s river, but to be honest not a great fan of both films.
The Woman They Almost Lynched - Alan Dwan, 1954
Some Dwan westerns are pretty simple stuff, but this one is different. Almost a parody in its absurdity.
A city in the civil war being set on the border between North and South preserves absolute neutrality. Everybody who breaches the neutrality will be hanged. And the town is run mainly by women as the men are in the war.
When Quantrill’s Raiders (amongst them the Younger and the James brothers, and Jesse is here a near child with big guns) enter the town things become difficult.
Unusual for a 50s western the women are stronger than usual, and the nearly lynched heroine is also more reasonable then the male guys.
Made with verve and some stylish action scenes. Great fun
Fistful Of Dollars
classic
Well thanks to Phil H, I was able to watch Dallamano’s Bandidos, and I’m now ready to enter full SW mode for a while, thanks mate.
About the film I will put my thoughts in the film thread, a difficult one, good but not as good as I was supposing so . A good Photography director, does not mean always a equally good director. Photography is only one part of the film, but there’s more to it.
Glad it arrived safely mate.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts on it.
I really liked Bandidos… Watched Kill Or Be Killed last night. Very enjoyable SW which apparently didn’t have much of a budget. They didn’t try to do anything too fancy, kept it simple and it worked very well 
The Glory Guys - IMO a very dull Western, Slim Pickens is probably the films only saving grace… James Caan is ok as well. The two main actors remind me so much of Edd Byrnes and George Hilton, I felt like I was watching Any Gun Can Play at times.
Django Kill…If You Live, Shoot!
One of the weirdest SWs I’ve seen. Love the concept of a gunman back from the dead for revenge. First half of the movie is awesome. Second half of the movie is down right bizarre, but it is a fun film to watch.
A double shot of It Can Be Done, Amigo and Diamante Lobo
Amigo was a nice, fun flick and I thought Dany Saval was absolutely gorgeous!
I LOVED Diamante Lobo however. Strange to find out a lot of people didn’t like it-I felt it was well shot with great music and performances. The end scene with Palance and Cleef actually got to me a little bit. Great film, in my opinion!
The Moment To Kill
Can’t go wrong with George Hilton. Liked the buddy movie feel of it, Lord and Bull are great characters. This movie has alot of plot twist to it, especially the end.
$100,000 FOR LASSITER
(aka DOLLARS FOR A FAST GUN)
A 1965 Spanish, Italian co-production [Centauro Film (Madrid), PEA (Rome)]
Producer: Alberto Grimaldi, Félix Durán Aparicio, Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent
Director: J.R. Marchent (Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent)
Story: Joaquín Romero Hernández (Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent), Sergio Donati
Screenplay: Joaquín Romero Hernández (Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent), Sergio Donati
Cinematography: Fulvio Testi, Rafael Pacheco (Rafael Pacheco de Usa) [Eastmancolor, Totalscope]
Music: Marcello Giombini
Running time: 99 minutes
Cast:
Lassiter - Robert Hundar (Claudio Undari)
Martin – Jose Bodalo
Helen Ray/Sarah - Pamela Tudor
Frank Nolan - Jesús Puente (Jesús Alzaga)
Pat Davis - Carlo Romero Marchent
Helen/Sarah’s brother - Roberto Camardiel (Roberto Escudero)
Martin’s son - Luis Gaspar (Luis Osorio)
Martin hechman – Luigi Pistilli, Aldo Sambrell (Alfredo Brell), Benito Stefanelli
with; Andrew Ray (Andrea Aurelli), Robert Johnson, Jr., Livio Contardi, Luis Caster, Antonio Ruiz, Ángel Ortiz (Ricardo Ortiz), Francisco Sanz, Dina Loy, Giovanni Petti (Giovanni Petrucci), Fernando Bilbao, Emilio Rodríguez, Guillermo Méndez, Indio Gonzáles (Gaspar González), Fernando Hilbeck (Fernando Gavalda), Jorge Llopis, Rafael Vaquero, Agustin Bescos, Luis Prendes (Luis Estrada)
I enjoyed $100,000 FOR LASSITER. I love these early Marchent Westerns! But, this one had too much of alight-hearted feel to it for me to be really crazy about it. This was my second viewing of the film. I had seen it once before, several years ago, but didn’t recall it being so “light weight” in tone.
Finally got around to watching the original True Grit. As I’ve put on record, I’m not really a western fan ('scept spags), unlike so many of the good folk here - and I initially was a bit bored with its talkiness. I persevered though and enjoyed it once it got out in the countryside. I chuckled at some of the wittier dialogue, and thought the acting from the duke and the girl pretty good. I wasn’t blown away overall though.
Anyway, the main reason I watched it is because I wanna see the remake, and thought I oughta pay my due respects…
I’ve sat through a few spaghetti westerns recently, but keep neglecting to update this thread.
A few weeks ago, I saw Fury of Johnny Kid for the first time, and was very impressed. I watched the original version, with the full ending, which I actually liked a lot.
Following on from that, I saw A Train For Durango, which I liked more than I was expecting. I was surprised I enjoyed seeing Steffan in a comedy role so much. Maybe the laughs helped to give him a bit more character. It helped that I didn’t feel like the comedy was too ridiculous, it didn’t decend into slapstick. The movie was also quite well paced and there were plenty of adventures to keep my attention. Not bad.
I continued with The Last Killer, which I loved. A very simple tale, but told so well. I loved the dialogue, the action, the performances. One of the best I’ve seen for a little while.
Over the weekend, I caught Adios, Sabata, which was alright. There were some good action sequences, some clever touches involving unusual weapons, which was nice to see. The film had a solid spaghetti feel to it and of course Yul Brynner exudes cool. However, the plot is pretty rambling and keeping track of what’s happening is sadly the most challenging thing about the film.
Tonight I watched Sartana in the Valley of Death, which was basically dull. I watched a quite heavily cut version and the simple tale still managed to drag. A few minor pleasures to be had, but there’s nothing strong enough to lift this one out of the mud really.
I also managed to fit in The Mercenary, which was just as awesome as all the other times I’ve seen it, and the new version of True Grit, which I’ve already posted about in another topic.
DEATH RIDES A HORSE (1967, Giulio Petroni)
Watched it entirely in Italian this time. It’s said that the film was shot in English, but it’s obvious that Italian actors like Pistilli & co spoke Italian on the set. The Italian language track is sublime, it’s even better than the English one (the English track is a bit plagued by would-be funny lines, invented by van Cleef and Law). Van Cleef has been given a rather low and slow voice. It takes some time to get used to it.
The film has even risen in my estimation, what a fine western
I also found an interview with Petroni (Giusti referred to it in his book and I used some of these references in my review) on the site of the magazine Nocturno. I have sent them a mail to ask their permission to make a translation and add it to the review
I’ll be reworking the review a little, so for the moment it’s has an ‘under construction’ warning.
I watched Adios Sabata last night. Good flick don’t recall it being good but… I’ve changed my mind.