So is this Fidani Season? If it is nobody told me
Yes ,some of them are more fun than Brother Outlaw. Some are also terrible boring.
Maybe, but generally Colizzi is not that popular.
Of course, well known films have always better chances than rare SWs. That’s unavoidable. But look how far El puro has climbed without any DVD releases. There are more who have garnered several points with only a shit print circulating around
[quote=“El Topo, post:9121, topic:141”]So is this Fidani Season? If it is nobody told me[/quote]You didn’t see the ads?
[quote=“Bill san Antonio, post:9124, topic:141”]You didn’t see the ads?
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Not until now, so for the following week a Fidani diet will be.
Thank’s doc
So it’s a Fidani season, right?
Fidani: One Damned Day at Dawn … Django meets Sartana!http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Quel_maledetto_giorno_d’inverno…_Django_e_Sartana_all%27ultimo
-Rewatched the film, Wild East dvd this time. One of the better films from Fidani in my opinion. Very cheaply made but there’s some good atmosphere created with this muddy and almost ruined little town. Duel scenes are well done and the film is mostly fun to watch. Weakest point of the film is the overlong “flashback” scene.
The Furies (Mann / 1950)
Have stated here before that I am a big fan of Anthony Mann’s westerns from the 1950s but somehow I had never got around to seeing this one until now. Well worth the wait in my opinion but very different in style and content to the Jimmy Stewart, psychological westerns Mann is rightly famous for. This one is more a family melodrama but benefits from some charismatic performances from Walter Huston and Gilbert Roland plus the usual cold steel of Barbara Stanwyck who was 43 when she made this but looks terrific for her age. The story has some poor elements and a weak ending unfortunately but all up was thoroughly enjoyed despite that and I’m glad I finally got to see it.
THE FURIES
I’ve always wanted to see this one, since i’m a A. Mann fan myself, especially his noir movies. I keep hopping TCM will someday put it on, it looks like it’s got an interesting cast.
“Colorado Territory” (1949)
-Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorthy Malone
Plot: IMDB
Outlaw Wes McQueen is sprung from jail to help pull one last railroad job. He doesn’t like his new partners - except dance-hall girl Colorado - and anyway fancies Julie Ann newly arrived from the east to set up home with her father. Maybe time to get out. Unfortunately he also has a $10,000 reward on his head, dead or alive.
Phantom’s Review: While this film has a lot of western cliche’s (the noble outlaw wanting to quit, the beautiful farm girl he loves, etc) it does a good job of turning them on their head. The action is good, the characters are fleshed out, and the story is very entertaining. Joel McCrea is as dependable as ever, delivering a fine performance. He really was a great western star. Virginia Mayo is beautiful as always, but Dorthy Malone is a blast as the farm girl who turns out to be anything but sweet. Some great stunt work and a shocking ending make this a very good film
[quote=“Phantom Stranger, post:9129, topic:141”]“Colorado Territory” (1949)
-Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorthy Malone
Plot: IMDB
Outlaw Wes McQueen is sprung from jail to help pull one last railroad job. He doesn’t like his new partners - except dance-hall girl Colorado - and anyway fancies Julie Ann newly arrived from the east to set up home with her father. Maybe time to get out. Unfortunately he also has a $10,000 reward on his head, dead or alive.
Phantom’s Review: While this film has a lot of western cliche’s (the noble outlaw wanting to quit, the beautiful farm girl he loves, etc) it does a good job of turning them on their head. The action is good, the characters are fleshed out, and the story is very entertaining. Joel McCrea is as dependable as ever, delivering a fine performance. He really was a great western star. Virginia Mayo is beautiful as always, but Dorthy Malone is a blast as the farm girl who turns out to be anything but sweet. Some great stunt work and a shocking ending make this a very good film
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Agree with you, partner!
[quote=“Phantom Stranger, post:9129, topic:141”]“Colorado Territory” (1949)
-Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorthy Malone
Phantom’s Review: While this film has a lot of western cliche’s (the noble outlaw wanting to quit, the beautiful farm girl he loves, etc) it does a good job of turning them on their head. The action is good, the characters are fleshed out, and the story is very entertaining. Joel McCrea is as dependable as ever, delivering a fine performance. He really was a great western star. Virginia Mayo is beautiful as always, but Dorthy Malone is a blast as the farm girl who turns out to be anything but sweet. Some great stunt work and a shocking ending make this a very good film
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Great film (here’s my take on it):
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I just finished the remarkable Death Sentence. I loved it and am a little surprised it isn’t in our Top 50.
Joe Kidd.
Generic Eastwood western, but still worth a view. Must be the shortest running time of an Eastwood main starring western. John Saxon did a good job of not looking like John Saxon. Funny when Eastwood is in the courtroom in the judges chair.
A Bullet For Sandoval. Great ending, and the story kept me engaged throughout, despite putting it on way after midnight. 
Sartana’s Here…Trade Your Pistol For a Coffin last night, courtesy of my latest Wild East acquisition. Seen it once before, good film and maintain it’s still the best score in a Sartana.
3.5/5
[quote=“Pacificador, post:9135, topic:141”]Sartana’s Here…Trade Your Pistol For a Coffin last night, courtesy of my latest Wild East acquisition. Seen it once before, good film and maintain it’s still the best score in a Sartana.
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How’s the quality of the WE version?
Just watched If You Meet Sartana & I Am Sartana last night.
[quote=“I…I…Idiot, post:9136, topic:141”]How’s the quality of the WE version?
Just watched If You Meet Sartana & I Am Sartana last night.[/quote]
Very good. Also a nice interview with George Hilton who has held up quite well I must say.
Rawhide (Hathaway / 1950)
Nothing to do with the TV show of the same name this is a tense Western drama based around the keeper of a stagecoach way station who is taken hostage (along with a female passenger and child who are mistaken as his family) by a gang of escaped outlaws intent on robbing an incoming stage of its gold shipment. Well crafted and solid performances by Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward in the leads but a stand out from a very young and thin looking Jack Elam as the loose canon amongst the bandits. Some nice moments of tension building from Hathaway in this one and very nicely shot too. But, as is so often the case in films of this vintage, the ending was something of a let down. Still a very enjoyable revisit for me though.
Was it? Please explain
Well it was fine in terms of the resolution of the incident but then, right at the end, you just get a lame bit of dialogue, something along the lines of:
“What have you been up to?”
“Oh, just learning the business.”
Which tries to make light of what has been a tense and harrowing experience and winds up just undermining the whole drama in my opinion. And then, if that wasn’t bad enough, the relationship between Power and Hayward isn’t resolved one way or the other and the whole thing ends with a trite bit of narration which is just a bad idea in any circumstances. It’s a pity because up to this point it was a really well handled hostage drama with interesting characters. I get the feeling it was decided that it needed a lighter more upbeat ending but actually that is exactly what the film didn’t need.