The great actor Gian Maria Volonte
The greatest horse scenes can never be filmed again… the ending of 1936’s Charge Of The Light Brigade, and the ending of 1944’s National Velvet, both involving spills and tumbles, which would drive animal-rights groups into a frothing frenzy. The chariot-race scenes in both Ben Hur’s may be copied… barely. But the horse-‘taming’ scene from 1952’s Wild Stallion is 3rd on my list. Ben Johnson stars as a horse-hunter/buyer for the US Calvary, who’s been obsessed with finding his boyhood colt, lost during an Indian-raid. -Which also killed his parents. Edgar Buchanan, as a calvary-scout, adopts him. Eventually Johnson (who was a cowboy/ranch-owner in real-life) finds the horse and attempts saddling-and-riding it. The scenes are long-running and unedited, with Johnson interacting with an actual wild horse, chosen specifically for the movie. The realism works great. -But the rest of the film is kinda bland and predictable… a woman, a rival, an officer that mistreats horses, the woman’s officer-father, etc. And Buchanan’s character never ages. He’s grizzled and gimpy thru-out, astonishingly becoming enlisted into the cavalry at the end, looking about 80-years-old.
I had a Lee Van Cleef marathon over the weekend starting with Death Rides a Horse, then The Big Gundown, and ending with Day of Anger.
Sounds like a good weekend 
I just watched His Name Was Sam Walbash, But They Call Him Amen and I actually liked it… Picture was full screen and looked like a VHS copy but Ive seen worse. The “cameo” appearances by Gordon Mitchell and Peter Martell were a bit disappointing though.
One of the best scenes in the flic
If there ever was any in that film, that’s surely it
Ohh, there is some more unintentional “great” stuff in this film.
The most fun Fid
How great or ‘great’ that film is depends on the mood. If you want serious no-bullshit stuff better switch it off as soon as possible. If you’re in a trashier mood then it might become your favorite SW.
Death Rides A Horse.
Viewed the new Wild East disc. Still good as ever this one.
Death of a Gunfighter-- Great story, Richard Widmark is always in impressive films, a pleasure to catch on TV…
After Phil’s explorations beyond the boundaries of red man’s shame, I felt obliged to watch an Indian spaghetti too
I chose:
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Not good, only half decent, but at least not completely hopeless. The director called himself George McRoots for the occasion and the first half of the movie is pretty embarrassing, but somehow McRoots gets his narrative on track and the last half hour or so, even offers some excitement (and a decent amount of carnage)
Anyway, the story is Soldier Blue mixed with some Ulzana’s Raid elements. A group of Apaches has escaped from their reserve (they took their teepees with them!), but the army (seven men, I suppose it was the Seventh Cavalry)) are on their trail and most Indians are killed in a surprise attack. One Indian woman survives and is found by a young soldier, who was appalled by what he saw. The two must try to find their way back to civilisation.
Made on a shoestring, shot in a very green area (probably the Manziana area, north-west of Rome), and often looking as if it was all done by amateurs (on a sunday afternoon). But the woman called Apache walks around semi-nude the entire movie (and she isn’t ugly), Rick Boyd is a good nasty, laughing bandit, and some of the twists and turns are simple but effective. On their way back to civilisation, the two meet all kind of human monsters, but in true Italian style the most dangerous encounter of them all, is that with a family of religious fanatics.
Prefer Apache Woman to Beyond The Frontiers of Hate. Apache Woman is more sleazy and prefer the characters.
Haven’t seen the other one (yet), but if Phil’s description was correct, this is by far the better movie.
Yes it is.
I agree with your Apache Woman review. Half decent. 5/10
If you’re in a trashier mood then it might become your favorite SW.<
Well said sir 
It sure is trash and I got plenty of laughs out of it… Not sure how many of them were intended or not.
They Call Him Marcado
-Weird and very violent Mexican western. Good one.
I saw William Wyler’s epic Western The Big Country (1958) yesterday. A beautifully shot, if rather predictable film that has good performences from Charles Bickford and Burl Ives. Gregory Peck and Charlton Heston do their usual thing, so how you respond to them is how well you like Peck and Heston; I found them to be in good, not outstanding form.
[quote=“Bill san Antonio, post:9016, topic:141”]They Call Him Marcado
-Weird and very violent Mexican western. Good one.[/quote]
Really enjoyed this one myself.
BREAKHEART PASS - I was expecting something more action-packed, however this is more of a mystery/thriller western. Good cast, great locations and some impressive train sequences, especially those over the bridges. Not the best Bronson western out there, but certainly enjoyable.
i was little dissapointed by the ending, it just cried for best shootouts - nevertheless until the end a very good train almost crime western