The Last Western You Watched?

The Saloon
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A TIME FOR KILLING 1967 Glenn Ford Inger Stevens George Hamilton

Directed by Phil Karlson Written by : Nelson&Shirley Wolford Columbia Pics

Excellent cavalry western with superb leading performances from Glenn Ford and the
always adorable, sophisticated INGER STEVENS. (Phantom you left the best out) :o
Good supporting roles for Kenneth Tobey and Dean Stanton also.

My Vote for A TIME FOR KILLING 1967 is 15.2 out of 20 :smiley:

I have the Pressbook also and it is as good as the film. Saw this film on 16-1-2008.

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Dead Man
-awesome film with very unique, strange mood. Great cast and music. One of my favorite non-sw western.

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Just viewed EL MACHO.

A bit hard to get into at first, but then pretty much kept me interested.

Some funky 70’s hairstyles in this one!

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John Sturges: Hour of the Gun (1967)
-US western with very good cast. Made in the times of biggest sw boom and you can notice little Leone influence on the final scene but otherwise it’s just regular western in “old american style”.

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7 Men From Now
Budd Boetticher classic starring Randolph Scott and Lee Marvin.
A great 1950s U.S western

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7 MEN FROM NOW 1956 and HOUR OF THE GUN 1967

Excellent quality Westerns , I have both on DVD :smiley:

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Les pétroleuses. Pretty entertaining. Starring Claudia Cardinale and Brigitte Bardot. Not much spaghetti in this one though, so be warned.

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What release of the film did you watch?

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The German release from EMS. A mixed French (mostly) / English dub with German subtitles. Looks great and if you can handle the German subtitles or speak French it’s definitely recommended. Got the German dub aswell


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Cheers, been thinking of making a purchase on this one.

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All’ Ombra Di Una Colt. Had this one for ages and just got round to watching it finally. Nice looking film, though quite slow moving in places. Not bad. I did really like the music though, and seeing that the ost has recently been released, i might be making a purchase soon :wink:

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Marchent: Hands of a Gunman[url]http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Ocaso_de_un_pistolero[/url] (dvd-r)
-This one started quite boringly. Apart from nice title sequence and beautiful and strange dream scene it was just like many other early sw’s which still remind too much american westerns. But during the latter half of the movie it gets much better with some nice action and duelling scenes and the last scene is already pure spaghetti western. Recommended.

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The Gatling Gun with Robert Woods, which was O.K I guess, and John Ireland stole the show in this one for me.

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I believe I bought this film on DVD in Serbia last summer. Still have to watch it though. I watched the first few minutes and the print they used is the worst I’ve ever seen on dvd. Burn-holes and missing frames all over


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Un minuto per pregare, un istante per morire (1968, Franco Giraldi)

I’ll write something about it on the film’s thread.

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For a few dollars more

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Viva Django

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Saw this one myself last night. An fine spaghetti western but yes John “I hate witnesses” Ireland has the best part in this one.

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PATHFINDER (2006, Marcus Nispel)

I’m not sure if it can be called a genuine western.
It’s Native Americans versus Vikings, and it’s awfully bloody and gory, so those of you who thought 300 wasn’t violent enough know where to go 


Apparently the film adopts the presumption that Leif Ericson (not the guy from High Chaparral) reached the North-American shores.
In this film their are two landings, and a Viking boy that is repudiated by his people during the first invasion, saves the Native Indians fifteen years later, when the Vikings lance a new attack.

Beautifully looking and with a relatively straightforward script, it seems it can’t miss, but it does.
The problem is director Marcus Nispel, a German born specialist in videoclips.
The guy doesn’t know where to stop. We get crane shots, underwater shots, panning, circling, rising and falling shots, nearly every scene is filled with squirting blood, hacked limbs or chopped-off heads, and when he doesn’t sense an opportunity for a fierce battle, he throws in a grizzly bear, thunderstorm or avalanche. As a result the entire film looks like one gigantic videoclip.

Still, it has its moments. The opening scene - an indian women finding a Viking ship - is very strong and the lead Karl Urban isn’t bad.
And those Vikings 


Well, once again they’re portayed as wild beasts. I’m prepared to accept that they weren’t jolly good fellows, but neither were the Romans or Macedonians, I suppose.
I do not know if they reached New Foundland, but they certainly set foot in nearly every European country, from France and Italy to Russia. And what’s more: they left their imprint everywhere they spent some time, so they must have been a rather advanced culture. In most history books I’ve consulted (Dutch, Belgian, French, Italian - I’m talking about general history books, not about specialized studies) an allusion is made on their skills, but the emphasis still is on their brutality and cruelty.

I wonder what Scandinavian history books (used in schools etc.) tell about them.
I’m also interested in a decent study about their lifes and times.
So Vikings (or what’s left of them ;)) 


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Hmm, the vikings, that was a long time ago, a thousand years :wink:

All I can think of right now is they drank a type of alcohol called “mjöd”, they apparently had terrible table manners, and they used these signs “runor” that they carved in stones.

They were pirates and plundered, but their cruelty is maybe exaggerated in foreign books?

They were probably no more cruel than many other primitive people in history, but I have no idea?

What you can hear nowadays is for example if you don’t mind the cold in winter, then you are a true viking :smiley: