“3:10 To Yuma” (1957)
“3:10 To Yuma” (2007)
What a difference 50 years makes. This is the way a remake should be done.
It stayed close to the originals storyline, but expanded upon it and made it it’s own. Russell Crowe and Christian Bale did a terrific job recreating the roles originally done by Glen Ford and Van Hefflin. A great film and a must see for western fans.
Watched Duello nel Texas a couple of nights ago. Didn’t really say me much. Nice to see Richard Harrison in an early spaghetti western entry but all in all it was just a very weak movie, nothing spectacular. The Morricone score wasn’t anything to write home about either.
After seeing Sabata a few days ago, I caught Sabata Returns on german tv. Well if you know what you are up to it is fun to watch. It is over the top and Sabata really is invincible(like sung in the main title). The german dub is quite strange, it is trying to be funny, but well it sometimes fits the mood of the movie.
I think its funny how they re-used dozens of actors from sabata and gave them new roles. That is just classic.
“If you wanna get rich, you have to be a son of a bambam…”
‘Vendetta at dawn’ (Django - Tag der Abrechnung)
Overall pretty much average stuff, the great cast makes up for it somehow though ! You’ll recognize lots of familiar faces !!! I’ll try to write a review pretty soon !
The Appaloosa - good, offbeat, slow moving western with Marlon Brando.
I watched (suffered through) the French DVD of “Once Upon a Time in the Wild Wild West”. An absolutely terrible excuse for a film. No story here just one continuous mess. Nothing but fistfights and stupid dialogue. The music is one main theme used repeatedly. The editing is abysmal as scenes end abruptly or are out of place. The saloon song by one of the girls is absolutely the worst voice over work I’ve ever seen. Her lips seldom move so you know she didn’t sing any song in any language. Gordon Mitchell’s CAVE studio town is nothing more than a collection of shacks and looks very amateurish. What a waste of 90 minutes. Avoid it like the plague.
French audio only I take it? In that case I will avoid in like the plague 
3:10 to Yuma (2007) saw this at the theater today.
Better than I expected and if I had not seen the original I would rate it above average.
I did not like the ending which really brought it down a peg for me. Music was very good
but not enough of it and surely not enough for a CD.
In 2007 I would rate it a solid B. Overall in the genre a C but as a remake of the original a D.
Crowe is exceptional and even says some of the lines like I could hear Glenn Ford saying.
Fionda is also very good. If you look past the improbabilities it is full of action, great scenerey’
and nice sets. All the actors suit their roles and are convincing.
Saw Land Raiders yesterday. An alright western but not very spaghetti-like. The score from Bruno Nicolai tries to make it so though but as soon as you see the first indian you know that something is wrong 
But an alright movie as I said, and boy is Telly Savalas one mean SOB in this one. All in all recommended.
Saw God Forgives… I Don’t, a very serious, dark, bloody western. Not what you would expect with Hill and Spencer in the leads but it works very well. 4/5
Good flick. Watched it a few weeks back myself…
Finally gave Règlements de femmes OQ Corral a try. As a movie it’s pretty bad. At times it’s a sex comedy, sometimes just a plain western, then it switches to being serious with drama and rape scenes and other times it’s just hardcore porn. Not a whole lot of that (and filmed pretty sloppily), but it’s in there. If you look closely there’s some good acting in the movie, but most actors blow. A mixed bag and an uneven movie, but overall pretty entertaining. But maybe that’s just me. Put boobs and gunfights in a movie, and I’m fine. Most entertaining sex scene: A guy rides a horse, while screwing a busty blonde. That’s about the most imaginative thing in the whole movie. Willeke van Ammelrooy, who is pretty famous in Holland, stars. And I’m thankful for that, otherwise this movie probably wouldn’t have had distribution here. By the way, are there any other releases of this, besides the Dutch Upstream Video release?
[quote=“alk0, post:1293, topic:141”]Luminous carries a DVD-R version of it:
[url]http://www.lfvw.com/gunfight_oq_corral.html[/url][/quote]
… which is ripped from the Upstream release. Found some other French) VHS releases though, but so far no real DVD release.
“The Proud Ones” (1956)
-Robert Ryan, Virginia Mayo. Jeffery Hunter
A fearless marshal clashes with a misguided cowboy, a ruthless saloonkeeper, and the indifferent citizenry as he struggles to maintain law and order in a quiet Kansas frontier town which is transformed into a riotous boomtown with the arrival of the first trail herds from Texas on the newly-completed railroad.
Good solid western adventure. Good acting and action. Nothing classic just a fine movie
SONNY AND JED has just been viewed.
What is good about this film is that it is so offbeat, with a suitably crude performance by TOMAS MILIAN.
The film looks great in 2.35 widescreen, and is well worth seeking out if you have not seen.
Jose Antonio de la Loma: Why go on Killing?[url]http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Perché_uccidi_ancora[/url] (dvd-r)
-One of those b-westerns you can relax with for hour and a half but nothing more. Anthony Steffen in the lead and Jose Calvo in surprising villain role makes the film more enjoyable.
“Cowboy” (1958)
-Glenn Ford. Jack Lemmon
Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is not what he expected
This is a great movie. As usual Glenn Ford give a terrific performance as the tough trail boss who takes the young tenderfoot under his wing.
Fine performance from Jack Lemmon as the young Hotel clerk, who goes from tenderfoot to cowboy.
3:10 to yuma-better than the original.“even bad guys love their momma’s”
“For a few dollars more”, i can never get bored of this no matter how many times i watch it