Cimarron. Very very good Anthony Mann’s epic western, i liked it a lot
" The Tall T" (1957)
-Randolph Scott, Richard Boone
Having lost his horse in a bet, Pat Brennan hitches a ride with a stagecoach carrying newlyweds, Willard and Doretta Mims. At the next station the coach and its passengers fall into the hands of a trio of outlaws headed by a man named Usher. When Usher learns that Doretta is the daughter of a rich copper-mine owner, he decides to hold her for ransom. Tension build over the next 24 hours as Usher awaits a response to his demands and as a romantic attachment grows between Brennan and Doretta.
Solid well made western adventure film.
I also watched 2 episodes of one of my favorite western shows,
“The Adventures Of Brisco County Jr”
- “No Mans Land”
- “Brisco In Jalisco”
lots of fun.
[quote=“Phantom Stranger, post:1342, topic:141”]I also watched 2 episodes of one of my favorite western shows,
“The Adventures Of Brisco County Jr”
- “No Mans Land”
- “Brisco In Jalisco”
lots of fun.[/quote]
Ah, Brisco County. That was a good show canceled before its time…
I totally agree Brisco County was great. One of the few TV series I never missed and cancelled everything else to watch it.
My favorite episode was “Hard Rock” but all were very clever fast paced and full of clever dialogue and ideas. Bruce
Campbell was at his best and I can’t picture anyone else in the role. If you get a chance to pick up the complete series at a reasonable price jump at it. 
Mulargia: Brother Outlaw[url]http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Rimase_uno_solo_e_fu_la_morte_per_tutti![/url] (dvd-r)
-Cheaply made film but quite amusing one. Some well done scenes and enough action to stand out.
Watched Bill il Taciturno (Django Tötet Leise dvd), by the guy who directed Bloody Pit of Horror. The plot has very little to offer, but the action makes up for that. George Eastman is in pretty good form as the title character. Most fun is Rik Boyd as a gunslinger with nervous twitches. Pisano’s music is catchy. It’s safe to recommend this to the spaghetti western fan. Solid stuff.
I have this on VHS somewhere (under the “Django” title that was slapped on it.) I should dig it out and watch it…
Finished Dead Men Don’t Make Shadows aka Stranger That Kneels Beside the Shadow of a Corpse aka Inginocchiati straniero… I cadaveri non fanno ombra! last night. Actually a pretty good movie, must be the finest looking Fidani I’ve set my eyes on. Got some Fidani regulars in the cast namely Hunt Powers, Gordon Mitchell (not much screen time though) and Dennis Colt (gotta love that name). Hunt Powers stars as the bounty hunter messing things up and Franco Borelli plays the stranger who helps the Hunt Powers character out, but why, what does he want? That we find out at the end.
Very nice music also by Coriolano Gori. Recommended. The dvd release by Global Video is something of a letdown though, more about that in the Global Video-thread.
Walter Hill’s THE LONG RIDERS, on of my favourite U.S. westerns.
One of the best, with a very good cast.
I watched “My name is nobody” one more time and Johnny Hamlet.
Read The Kill Bill Diary last week(by David Carradine) and was very into watching The Long Riders again. Probably do it somewhere next week since I have it on dvd 
Just watched Pale Rider by and with Clint Eastwood.
The atmosphere in the movie is very intense and i liked it. A bit like dead men from jarmusch. As well i liked the location, that place is so beautiful and that is an advantage of the USA i guess. Could not be thinking of a spaghetti with such great lanscape pictures(especially of the snowy landscape, the great silence is good but no compettition when it comes to this.) like this movie.
some things i disliked: that all the women(mother and daughter :P) fall in love directly with the stranger/preacher. Maybe i am too “romantic” but it looks like it was pretty easy back in the days to get a girl to fall in love with you. Guess you did not have to take her to the movies first and invite her to a drink ;D >:(
spoiler
Also it is a bit sad that we never know who or how and why preacher was killed. His wounds resemble the one that the masrshall has at the end. but i guess this is wanted to be left open…
why did the big guy(Richard Kiel, known as jaws from the james bond movies, was great to see him again) help preacher when chris penn(who was great and whom i really like in most of his roles) wanted to shot him. I guess he disliked penn because he wanted to rape the girl, but he was hit in the groin with a slegdehammer!!! by preacher.
I also disliked that he sleeps with the mother, i liked it in the dollar films (which were a inspiration for the stranger character for sure, he could have worn a poncho and sheepskin vest…)that he did not do too much with women(at least in the normal version, i know there are some deleted scenes and in FOAFDM it is pretty obvious that he gets it on with the hotel owners wife). And he should have taken the daughter 8)
Well and how far shall the village be away from the town? i mean the town is covered in snow but the village of the miners is not. But it cant be too far away since the little girl arrives relatively fast from the village at the end.
Well story-wise not too special but the atmosphere is really great plus great locations. So it is recommended even though i expect most of you have seen it allready. Also it is interesting that this is allmost an political movie for enviromental issues. Maybe he even is godsent to stop men from “raping nature” as the mining is also called in the movie.
I watched VENDETTA AT DAWN last night. The movie was just a bit under 90 minutes; but, to me it seemed like it lasted about 3 hours!
Always good to watch a Spaghetti Western I haven’t seen before—however, this is definitely a SW I won’t be watching, again.
The music, by De Masi, was very good–but, it was all borrowed from several scores he did for other Westerns (most notably his great score for THE MOMENT TO KILL).
All in all, VENDETTA AT DAWN (aka DJANGO TAG DER ABRECHNUNG) was pretty drab.
This is one of the films I recommended in one of the other threads and I really enjoyed it (even tho I’m not a big fan of Eastman). Sleazy and nasty villains always a bonus - and this has got 'em.
Still, Brother Chris, as my gran’pappy said to me as he bounced me on his knee “If we all liked the same things in this world - everybody’d be shaggin ya gran’ma”.
Oh yeah - n the last film I saw … finally … 3:10 to Yuma remake. Too much talking but pretty fab.
“Stagecoach” (1939)
John Wayne/John Ford classic
A great movie
Just saw Tombstone on TV. Pretty good, and probably more historically accurate than most other Wyatt Earp Biopics (which isn’t saying much haha). I thought the music and gunplay were a bit lack lustre, but great acting from Val Kilmer, even though he had a really annoying accent.
Hmmm…TV is no way to see this film, in my opinion (unless you saw the director’s cut, widescreen, etc. on TV).
TOMBSTONE is one of my all-time favorite Westerns! It is also, believe it or not, one of the many reasons I decided to move to Arizona. You are right that it is more historically accurate than most other (I would say ALL other) Wyatt Earp films. I agree that the music is lack lustre; but, I disagree completely on the gunplay. I thought it was very well done, personally. Kilmer should have received an Academy Award for his dead-on portrayal of Doc Holliday! And that “annoying” accent was a perfectly done, typical Southern accent a la Georgia…so be careful what you say or you might be hit with someone complaining about those “annoying” Canadian accents, eh?
heh heh
OUATITW with audio-commentary. Frayling rocks.
Oh men… Fonda’s got INCREDIBLE blue eyes! Still.
Well i saw Unforgiven yesterday night. I was expecting a bit mor of it. I mean yes there a some morals and the cast is great. But overall i did not like it too much, because i expected more, this is allways a problem.
It is funny how rumours(the thing with the cutting of the girl, start by the kid telling the even cut heir teeth out, going to eastwood telling freeman they cut anything but their cunny) and the portrayals of the heroes and gunslingers are taunted in this movie. And the final outrage of eastwood is great.
i dont know if he returns to being a good man or if he strays like he was in the end, this isn´t solved by the movie.
But I definitely will rewatch it; but my problem is that the one guy was even trying to help the whore and apoligozed to her with giving her a horse, and she locked like she accepted his apologee but the strongest of them pushed him away, he surely did not deserve to die.
The rugby game afterwards was much more entertaining but that was really a great game anyway
Yeah, I agree with your points on Unforgiven valenciano. Also, I think that was one of the themes of the movie, that the victimized whore was willing to forgive, but the other whores weren’t. There were alot of themes in that movie that made it unconventional. More my money I rather watch high plains drifter and pale rider.
Hey Chris_Casey, yeah that was my second time viewing Tombstone, I saw it when it came out in 1993, I was only 13 so I didn’t really get it as much as I do now. SO Kilmer’s accent is authentic eh? haha, shows how much I know living in he great white North. And yeah, Canadian accents are annoying as well haha. But I live in Toronto where its multicultural and so its less pronounced. I still think the gunplay could have been better. I didn’t like the part where Earp just walks into the river and manages to not get shot. But than again, I’m comparing it to Spaghetti Style gunplay which is unfair of me. Nothing beats Spaghetti Action!