The Magnificent West / Il magnifico West (Gianni Crea, 1972)

korano · August 16, 2008, 7:19pm

Database entry: Magnifico west, Il - The Spaghetti Western Database

I meant to put this one here in the forum but mest up and put it on the database. Anyway, as I posted before, this one interested me because of it’s supposed attmept to be a “sprawling, pictaresque,” tale of the west which I think is pretty atypical for most spaghettis. If anyone has any info on this one, please let me know. I am very curious. ???
starring: Vassili Karis and Gordon Mitchell

korano · September 11, 2008, 2:24am

I would also like to locate a DVD-R of this. Anybody?

korano · September 21, 2008, 9:42pm

Can someone please help me. Very curious about this one.

alk0 · September 22, 2008, 9:00am

It’s Gianni Crea’s movie so it’s probably shit.

Silver_Wolf · September 22, 2008, 10:13am

You can get DVD-R copy in italian language from Cine City. Italian & Greek tape releases are the only ones I know, both in italian. You can also get original Italian tape from Kult Video, it only costs 75 euros. ;D If you order a copy, please trade a copy of it for me, I’d like to see this one too. It’s Crea and it stars Karis so it’s propably no-budget trash but at least it has great title…

korano · September 24, 2008, 10:56pm

[quote=“alk0, post:4, topic:1215”]It’s Gianni Crea’s movie so it’s probably shit.[/quote]Maybe so but even the worst directors have there moments. By reputation, Bruno Corbucci’s westerns are pretty bad excpet for Shoot, Gringo, Shoot. Maybe this one could be Crea’s Spara, Gringo, Spara.

alk0 · September 25, 2008, 11:36am

Crea’s Spara, Gringo, Spara is probably [haven’t seen all of his movies] “Law of violence”, but it was still mediocre

Bill_san_Antonio · September 25, 2008, 12:50pm

[quote=“alk0, post:7, topic:1215”]Crea’s Spara, Gringo, Spara is probably [haven’t seen all of his movies] “Law of violence”, but it was still mediocre[/quote]Me neither but you might be right here. It wasn’t that bad film.

Cool poster by the way

Silver_Wolf · October 16, 2009, 9:02pm

I finally managed to watch this today. What a terrible, terrible film. Is it low-budget? Well, as an example there’s a scene in the sheriff’s office but the only way you can tell it’s the sheriff’s office is because it has a jail… and that’s it. Because of budget limitations there are no guns, no “wanted” posters on the walls, no desk or chair… or anything. It’s completely empty room!

The western town that we see in every(?) Crea western is used again, mostly during the first half of the film, which is quite serious. The second half is more Trinity-style stuff and locations also change to Cave Studios and locations near it, mostly green hills that look nothing like the wild west. Music is (again!!) recycled from The Stranger Returns and maybe some other films. The film ends with a 15 minute (or so) funny fistfight that has big fat guys dressed up as women beating the bad guys… it just goes on and on. And of course there’s the inevitable funny old man too… and a goat.

The only good things I can think about this is that Karis is slightly more charismatic than usual and that there weren’t any recycled scenes.

1 star…

Silence · November 3, 2009, 6:45am

Won’t Crea get tired of that song?

Reverend_Danite · October 25, 2010, 1:40pm

There’s a (coverless) vid on ebay uk at the mo with a more reasonable buyitnow. I might add it isn’t me selling it, and neither do I wish to own it.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Magnificent-West-Gordon-Mitchell-Spaghetti-Western-VHS-/300484863388?pt=UK_DVD_Film_TV_Videos&hash=item45f64b259c

ION_BRITTON · January 27, 2013, 12:38pm

Another shitty one with tons of filler scenes, endless gravel pits, the mandatory, awful “funny” character etc. Cipriani’s score was quite nice, but it’s probably recycled from another film. 1 star for the score.

Admin · January 30, 2024, 9:24pm

This film’s page in the database has been updated to the new layout. Contributions welcome.

Mickey13 · November 6, 2024, 3:48pm

Copied from the Spagvemberfest 2024 thread:

Spagvemberfest 2024 - 30 coffins won’t be enough

The story basically boils down to the gunfighter acted by Vassili Karis assisting the townsfolk in ridding their territory of the bandits headed by the baddie played by Gordon Mitchell. First, Karis’s character is incarcerated along with a handful of resistance fighters, then springs out of jail with them so as to prepare the local population for the final confrontation with Mitchell and his wrongdoers… or so it seems at first.

This is what would have happened had the project been penned and executed with minimal honesty and competence. In reality, the moment Karis breaks out of prison, the narration actually grinds down to a stop and fails to go anywhere, instead turning its attention to people pelting one another with pebbles, doing acrobatics, digging holes in the ground with pickaxes and shovels for no apparent reason, dancing, stuffing their faces with chicken, all in anticipation for the climax which comes down to a scuffle between the bandits and the good guys dressed in drag.

As if that were not enough, there is a comic relief character by the name of “Pistola” whose antics and general aptitude for comedy are as pitiable as they are annoying. On the whole, considering that almost one third of the movie shows people essentially whiling away their time doing absolutely nothing and that the rest of the flick includes the usual succession of Creastic shootouts in which everybody shoots and misses their target, one would be hard-pressed to find an actual reason to willingly subject themselves to a viewing experience as excruciating as this one. Then again, if you are a deviant film scrounger in need of a rotten fix, this might very well do the trick, though at that point, you should probably consult a trained specialist.