I just watched the Wild East-release of Three Ruthless Ones/Gunfight At High Noon/Sons Of Vengeance/3 Implacables and found it specially interesting as a pre-Leone SW or paella western, but with several recognizable faces.
Looking at the different Almeria locations was the most intriguing, including Tabernas area and El Cabo de Gata. The rodeo scene obviously though was shot at Clomenar Viejo where it was possible to observe its caracteristic hill. The family ranch I suspected was rather close to Mini Hollywood, and I just found it on Google 3D here : https://tinyurl.com/y23shgvg
Maybe the film is a bit more American style in story telling, but I found it entertaining nevertheless, and I guess I will rate it as 6 of 10. It do lack the rather typical mood of many SW, and that genre’s best music.
Re-watched this one after more than a decade yesterday.
Still consider this one of the better pre-Leone spaghettis. Well shot, good story and well cast with Robert Hundar stealing the show as the angry elder brother intent on using violence to gain revenge on those who have done the family wrong.
Need to re-visit a few more of these older ones I think. It’s been a while.
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I have the German Explosive Media Blu ray of this:
Blu Ray is the Italian print and runs 97m31s (although version seen by Italian censors was 101m approx). There are English, Italian and German versions with German and English subtitles meaning I could watch it in Italian with English subtitles.
The Italian credits are much shorter than the English credits and have different people credited for the script.
Italian credits list only 7 people including ‘Billy Hyden’, ‘Evelyn Merril’ and ‘Andrew Scott’ (I didn’t spot Andrea Scotti at all). I assume the other 2 are aliases for Miguel Planzuela and Gloria Osuna to try and disguise the Spanish names.
Italian print credits the script to JR Marchent, M Fondato, the latter presumably an Italian form contractual reasons.
The Spanish credits are an extra on the Blu Ray - this credits the script to JR Marchent, RR Marchent and Jesus Navarro.
The extras include the missing 3m26s of footage - in Spanish with German subtitles. This is an extension of the dinner table scene after Jeff’s brothers have left in which Jeff tells his mum that he is leaving to be a US Marshal. That’s all he says in the Italian version but in the Spanish version there is about a 2m preamble to this in which he and mum converse as to whether the killers of Jeff’s father should be killed or brought to justice, repeating conversations held elsewhere so probably why it was cut. After Jeff leaves, the Italian version ends the scene on mum’s tears but in the Spanish version there is a follow-up conversation between her and Fernando Sancho about the matter. Nothing vital is cut though.
The UK theatrical print ran only 88m and also had several cuts for a U (unrestricted rating). It wasn’t released in the UK until March/April 1966
As this passed the Italian censors in December 1963 I assume Harrison made this after Gunfight at Red Sands, which was submitted to the censors in September 1963.
