A great film.
My favourite moment is when Henry Fonda is standing on the sidewlk outside the Hotel with Vic Matures old girlfriend. She breathes in deeply smelling the morning air and says something like “What a beautiful morning. I can smell the honeysuckle blossom.”
Fonda looks sheepish and then says “That’ll be me Ma’am.”
Classic.
“Support Your Local Sheriff”
-James Garner
Hysterically funny western comedy
Just finished watching FRANCO NERO in JONATHAN OF THE BEARS which I really enjoyed.
Recommended for anyone who likes KEOMA.
Nice story, good action, and NERO is always worth watching.
One of my favourite westerns of the 90’s.
[quote=“Phantom Stranger, post:1062, topic:141”]“Support Your Local Sheriff”
-James Garner
Hysterically funny western comedy[/quote] Haven’t seen that one in a coon’s age. Charley Varrick for me, tonight.
The other day I saw the Corbucci movie Spara, Gringo, Spara.
Not the best SW I’ve seen but ok, no more.
One Foot In Hell-8/10
This is one awesome revenge movie. First of all you feel sad what happen to his wife and you want him to seek revenge but later on you find out that the guy is really mad man.
Watched California yesterday.
The setting is the end of the civil war, and upon leaving an internment camp of sorts, Michael Random (Gemma - he takes his name from a popular tobacco brand to conceal his true identity as a famous gunman, wanting to leave that life behind), finds himself unwillingly partnered with a young soldier named Willy Preston. At first he’s irritated by the exuberant young man but gradually takes a liking to him. After a strange scene where they (and others) catch frogs for dinner(!), the two men manage to avoid a massacre perpetrated by bounty hunter Rope Whittaker and hs gang, who seem to be targeting ex confederate soldiers. They also meet a man named Nelson, who claims to be a reporter, but is later revealed to have a connection to Whittaker. Later, they escape another altercation only for tragedy to strike (in a truly unexpected and shocking scene). Random then makes his way to find Preston’s family, eventually opting to stay with them, and becomes close to Willy’s sister, Helen. Fate however, leads him to cross paths with Whittaker and his gang once more, and also Nelson, who is there with the task of reining the bounty hunter in for political reasons. In the ensuing chaos, Random is shot, and Helen is kidnapped. Once recovered. Random tracks down and dispatches the gang but is forced to team up with Whittaker on a robbery and to save him from Nelson, in order to discover the whereabouts of Helen. After he does so, the scene is set for the inevitable showdown.
This one was a definite departure from the other Gemma westerns i have seen, being quite grim, downbeat and surprisingly violent. Gemma is more mature looking, and the smug, toothy grin of earlier films is completely absent. Even the landscape in this film is grim, being either rainy and muddy, misty or just plain desolate. Performances were generally good all round, although being a big fan of William Berger, i was disappointed that his role was small, and only required him to hang around looking weary and miserable. Also, the soundtrack, though interesting, seemed (mostly) as though it belonged in a different film. I give it 4 out of 5.
[quote=“Silver, post:1067, topic:141”]Watched California yesterday.
The setting is the end of the civil war, and upon leaving an internment camp of sorts, Michael Random (Gemma - he takes his name from a popular tobacco brand to conceal his true identity as a famous gunman, wanting to leave that life behind), finds himself unwillingly partnered with a young soldier named Willy Preston. At first he’s irritated by the exuberant young man but gradually takes a liking to him. After a strange scene where they (and others) catch frogs for dinner(!), the two men manage to avoid a massacre perpetrated by bounty hunter Rope Whittaker and hs gang, who seem to be targeting ex confederate soldiers. They also meet a man named Nelson, who claims to be a reporter, but is later revealed to have a connection to Whittaker. Later, they escape another altercation only for tragedy to strike (in a truly unexpected and shocking scene). Random then makes his way to find Preston’s family, eventually opting to stay with them, and becomes close to Willy’s sister, Helen. Fate however, leads him to cross paths with Whittaker and his gang once more, and also Nelson, who is there with the task of reining the bounty hunter in for political reasons. In the ensuing chaos, Random is shot, and Helen is kidnapped. Once recovered. Random tracks down and dispatches the gang but is forced to team up with Whittaker on a robbery and to save him from Nelson, in order to discover the whereabouts of Helen. After he does so, the scene is set for the inevitable showdown.
This one was a definite departure from the other Gemma westerns i have seen, being quite grim, downbeat and surprisingly violent. Gemma is more mature looking, and the smug, toothy grin of earlier films is completely absent. Even the landscape in this film is grim, being either rainy and muddy, misty or just plain desolate. Performances were generally good all round, although being a big fan of William Berger, i was disappointed that his role was small, and only required him to hang around looking weary and miserable. Also, the soundtrack, though interesting, seemed (mostly) as though it belonged in a different film. I give it 4 out of 5.[/quote]
Sound’s my kind of film! (ie; grim and downbeat).
I will have to get round to watching the film I think.
‘California’ is the best Gemma SW IMO !!! One of the better late SW !!! Unfortunately rarely talked about !!!
Hope i didn’t make it sound like i didn’t really enjoy it! It was a very good film 
No, no, I’m just glad somebody else also likes it !!!
I’ll have to check that one out , too.
“Hell’s Crossroads” (1957)
-Stephen McNally
An outlaw and his girlfriends brother seek pardons by catching Jesse James
Decent “B” western with some good action
“God Forgives, I Don’t”(1969)
-Terrance Hill
A gunman and an Insurance Agent team up to hunt down an outlaw who stole a gold shipment.
Very entertaining SW. Lots of action and a good story
“The Magnificent Seven Ride!”
Watched “Fast Hand Is Still My Name” ealier today. I’d wanted to see this one for a while, and wasn’t disappointed. My understanding of German is pretty poor (we only did French and Spanish when i was at school) but the story was pretty easy to follow, being a fairly typical revenge themed film. The guy playing the hero was pretty uninteresting but William Berger was on top form. Some surprising amounts of violence and torture…oh, i could have done without the extended spitting scene though! 
Nice also to see Francisco Brana in a larger role than usual. Very interesting soundtrack too.
Would love this film to get a english audio DVD release!
Can you recall who did the music by the way?
[quote=“ENNIOO, post:1076, topic:141”]Would love this film to get a english audio DVD release!
Can you recall who did the music by the way?[/quote]
Gianni Ferrio…it’s pretty good. Not your typical SW score. Wonder if there is a cd available…probably not!
Thanks for that.
I have never seen one…but open to correction of course!
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How was it?