A couple of recent views.
Will Penny: Realistic perhaps, but also quite sentimental. You’ll like it if you like the Coens’ version of True Grit. I thought it was okay.
Kill The Wicked: I preferred Matalo!
Vengeance Is a Colt 45 - Django is shot in the back and killed by a cowardly gunman in front of his young son (Gabriele Tinti), the son grows up and makes it his mission to exact revenge on him. A preacher (Guy Madison) rides into town who was a friend of Django’s many years ago to help him in his task.
Even though billed second Tinti is really the star, Madison turns up shortly after the half hour mark.
Watched it this afternoon and thought it was pretty good.
Long Days Of Vengeance - this is very recommendable Gemma western with strong directing and plenty of superb scenes, not to mention great music theme, which is one of my favorites among SW themes
i really liked bearded and longhaired Gemma hero from beginning of the movie, he could stay this way, no need for haircut
also it contains one of the best shaving scenes in SWs
Jeremiah Johnson (1972) by Sidney Pollack. An incredible movie, I simply love it and one of the best American westerns ever made IMO, among Peckinpah’s.
God forgives, I don’t (1967) by Giuseppe Colizzi. It was very good, particularly Frank Wolff’s performance was incredible. He was very interesting character, possibly the most engaging thing in this film. Besides we’ve got here plenty of good direction (although the director copies too much from Leone movies, without adding his own style), astonishingly good soundtrack by Carlo Rustichelli (I always find his scores completely irrelevant and seem to be out of places, but this one fits perfectly) and good acting by Hill, Spencer is too wooden though. All in all a very good entry, it could be called one of the most representative films in the genre, as it contains everything that should be in spaghetti: violence, beautiful music, outstanding locations and bunch of lesser-known, but nevertheless talented actors.
Gets strong 4 stars.
Son of Django.
Viewed the Wild East version. Better quality than the X Rated dvd version. Average tale of revenge, with Guy Madsion the best thing. He could have done with a bit more screen time though.
Open Range.
Actually a really fine western in the old trandition of revenge westerns. Fantastic. Some might even say it is the best western since Unforgiven.
Duel in the Sun - David O. Selznick (with King Vidor and others) 1946
Not as good as I remembered it. Too much time is spent with the melodramatic parts, too less it is a western. Too much O. Selznick, and too less King Vidor. The colour photography is, well, very colourful, extremely colourful. All in all the then spectacular scenes have lost a lot of their impact.
The cast is good, if not great, but Jones unsubtle acting in the lead is too mannered. 6,5/10
El Desperado (1967) by Franco Rossetti.
A very good film, I remember I liked it quite a lot with the first viewing, I enjoyed it even more now. Well-made, gritty, with a great sense of atmosphere (reminds me a bit Django, those oceans of mud looks great! :D).
And of course Giordana who steals the show as El Desperado - his acting was astonishingly good IMO and much better than in his later entries.
Gianni Ferrio’s score is one of my favorites, this guy know what music to spaghetti should sound like.
Overall - this one’s got it all what I like. 4 Stars.
[quote=“Stanton, post:9507, topic:141”]Duel in the Sun - David O. Selznick (with King Vidor and others) 1946
6,5/10[/quote]
I still like Duel in the Sun a lot - it’s hugely over the top melodramatics is what I find so fun about it; along with The Outlaw it is my favourite Western guilty pleasure.
Breakheart Pass
Charles Bronson in a mixture between Thriller and Western. I always liked the snow setting in this one. 
Watched Sugar Colt for the first time. I really liked it, not at all what I was expecting. Good deal of comedy mixed in with quite a bit of violence. Surprised to see its from 66’, I would have definitely guessed a few years later.
[quote=“Paco Roman, post:9510, topic:141”]Breakheart Pass
Charles Bronson in a mixture between Thriller and Western. I always liked the snow setting in this one. ;)[/quote]
Snow a favourite of later Bronson westerns. Red Sun, White Buffalo and Deathhunt also spring to mind.
Deathhunt the best of the bunch for me, easily.
[quote=“ION BRITTON, post:9513, topic:141”]Deathhunt the best of the bunch for me, easily.[/quote]Fantastic film.
Savate.
A stranger who is a Frenchman and expert kickboxer rides into town and saves the day, after a friend is killed. Very Spaghetti style score and half of the acting is crap, but when R Lee Emery and James Brolin are on screen things improve. In fact Emery is pretty good as the corrupt lawman. Predictable stuff but ok entertainment.
for me too, great landscape, Bronson at his best, and aeroplane shooting motherfrackers
Breakheart Pass would be great, but is little spoiled by the weak ending
His Name Was King - Richard Harrison and his leather shirt set out on new adventures, pretty dull stuff that falls completley apart once the story moves to Mexico. Great soundtrack though, but I still have no idea why Kinski was the villain, other than the fact that he is Kinski. Pretty sure my DVD, a Mill Creek release, was heavily cut at 75 minutes and being presented in fullscreen VHS quality does no film any favours. Had to wash the taste out of my mouth with a Harrison gladiator flick.
Django (1966) - a great astonishment.
It was the first time I watched it in Italian and I love it. Of course I’ve watched it a few times with English dubbing, but something was missing for me. Now everything is perfect. Only now did I realize how much that awful fucking English dubbing ruins this movie! Actually everything is better in Italian version - particularly dialogues.
Thank you Blue Underground for the great restoration. Now it is on my Top 10, even though I never supposed that I will like it so much. 8)
[quote=“Mickey13, post:9518, topic:141”]Django (1966) - a great astonishment.
It was the first time I watched it in Italian and I love it.[/quote]
i’ve seen it only in italian and czech - was Django’s last shouted words on the cemetery different in english dubbing?
because in this czech dubbing he shouted something different than it was in italian, so i thought it came from eng dub
[quote=“tomas, post:9519, topic:141”]i’ve seen it only in italian and czech - was Django’s last shouted words on the cemetery different in english dubbing?
because in this czech dubbing he shouted something different than it was in italian, so i thought it came from eng dub[/quote]In english dub he shouts “can you hear this?”