[quote=“Garko Forever, post:1700, topic:141”]Over the Holiday break I watched the following:
Spaghetti Westerns (got a bunch of new ones for Christmas!):
If you Meet Sartana, Pray for your Death
Bullet for Sandoval
Texas, Addio
Charge (aka Those Dirty Dogs)
Seven Dollars on the Red
Viva Django[/quote]
Garko’s great in ‘Those Dirty Dogs’ - I would imagine pretty unique as a Muslim sw character as well.
Times havn’t changed much about trust tho … the american army boys say summat along the lines of “Better to have him with us than behind us” at the end of the film.
May I say … good to see you on the board and you’ve nearly enough for a top twenty there amigo … Maybe some more Sartana one’s as well?
Saw Für eine Handvoll Blei aka Uccidi o muori last night. Pretty damn awful. Robert Mark just isn’t cut out to be a spaghetti western leading actor + the script was just plain dumb + this is one of those spaghetti westerns with that damn American feel to it which is not to my liking. Carlo Rustichelli delivered the score which was also mainly nothing to write home about. Some spaghetti tunes at some place and others sounded like they had been ripped off from an American western. Recommended? I think not.
Edit: Forgot one nice thing about this movie: The performance of Gordon Mitchell who sadly only plays a small and virtually nonsensical part in the movie. But he’s damn good at being bad
Between New Year’s and now I watched FAFDM and GBU.
Got some nice Amazon $$$ for Xmas with which to supplement my western collection…so I’ll probably end up buying High Plains Drifter, Companeros and A Bullet for the General. Haven’t seen the latter two - yet.
And the composer does his usual trick of borrowing a couple of tracks from other western(s) he has scored, with A Bullet for the General being the main one here I think.
And the composer does his usual trick of borrowing a couple of tracks from other western(s) he has scored, with A Bullet for the General being the main one here I think.[/quote]
Also, tracks from Chapaqua’s Gold were recycled in His Name Was King one year later, again directed by Giancarlo Romitelli (or so they say… WAI: Book 3 says that both films were directed by someone else <can’t remember his name> but Romitelli got the credit).
In case someone else besides me is interested in whoever directed these suckers, here’s what WAI3 has to say:
His Name Was King
d: Don Reynolds (Giancarlo Romitelli)
"In Reality the movie was directed by Renato Savino"
The book also has a full review of Chapaqua’s Gold but nothing is said about director. Basic info says that it was directed by “Don Reynolds (=Renato Savino)” Romitelli isn’t even mentioned. Does someone know more about this? Betts?
Four outlaws come to New Jerusalem, a town full of courteous and religious people, to rob the bank. After shooting the president of the bank, only three make it out of town followed by the posse. By the time they get to the second desert water hole, they find it dry and also find a wagon with a dying mother and baby. When the horses are dead the next morning, the three outlaws have no choice but to try to walk back to New Jerusalem and only two want to take the baby.
Though Chester Morris and Lewis Stone aren’t exactly names identified with westerns, together with Walter Brennan they do a very nice job in bringing this earlier and harsher version of the story of Three Godfathers, outlaws who give an infant a chance at life.
Rather than the Three Godfathers from John Ford’s later and more famous version, a trio of happy go lucky outlaws who rob a bank and get a posse after them, these are a much tougher group who drift into New Jerusalem one at a time. Morris is from there and hasn’t got pleasant memories of the place. He’s the one who wants to rob the bank and give a little payback to the town, especially to bank manager Robert Livingston who’s going to marry Irene Hervey, Morris’s former sweetheart.
Of course out on the desert the trio finds a dying woman with an infant and Brennan and Stone want to help, but Morris very reluctantly goes along. Let’s just say that they meet a much meaner end than John Ford gave them in his version.
I do love the chemistry between Stone and Brennan, the college graduate who carries Shakespeare and Schopenhauer in his saddlebags and the illiterate nabob. Stone does not however demean Brennan at all and my favorite scene is him singing Boola Boola in the desert which Morris identifies for Brennan as Stone’s old school song.
Richard Boleslavski does not give us the sweeping desert vistas of John Ford’s Monument Valley, but this Three Godfathers has a class and dignity all its own.
Recently watched The Magnificent Texan, which was OK. Nothing special but certainly not the worst i’ve seen and at least it wasn’t boring, though the romantic parts were a bit tiresome. Noticed that the music at the end was the same as the theme from Coffin For The Sheriff…recycling music seems to be an SW tradition!
Also watched Bandidos, which i thoroughly enjoyed. A much harder edged film, with no comedy and no messing. And a great soundtrack.
I believe I saw the trailer on a Spaghetti-Western trailer dvd(For a few previews more). It seemed very bad there though I stole the title-design for a fake trailer I made…
… Maybe some more Sartana one’s as well?