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It was time for a little more Charles Southwood for me yesterday. I think Three Silver Dollars gets a rating a shade above Southwood’s prior Make the Sign of a Cross, Stranger. Minor spoilers ahead, trying to limit my spoilers going forwards…
5/10. It’s possibly a 4.5 as I believe this is slightly below average but at the same time, I’d not cry about it if I had to watch it again. A generous 5/10.
There’s been one or two posts about the bad dialogue in this, but I quite liked it for some reason - I thought it was clever and witty at times. Perhaps because the last SW I watched was Mallory Must Not Die! and I thought it contained some of the worst writing and delivery I’ve seen in the genre.
I liked the premise, but don’t think the overall execution of it was great. Found it a bit muddled and it seemed to drag on a bit. The finale was also extremely predictable, I found myself throughout the film saying to myself “please don’t end this how I think it will end” and of course, it did end like that. Big flop.
I liked the bromance that Southwood and Mateos had (which is probably why I hated the finale so much). Some nice locations (albeit repetitive after a while).
Two ludicrously funny moments too, the first being when Southwood’s character proves his shooting prowess by firing a nail into a wall and then of course, the quicksand which was basically just sand. Hilarious.
Similar thoughts on this as I did with Make the Sign of a Cross, Stranger - at first I thought this was below par and a bit meh, but after sleeping on it, I can’t help but feel that it did have some redeeming qualities.
This ist already a nice made b-movie. I like it. Nothing spectacular but in his own way entertaining. The german DVD is cheap made. Only a VHS ripp, I guess. But good to collect. It’s cut for sure. The killing of wife and husband is truly a cut scene. But I’m fine with that. The german dub offers no lame dialogue. The dub is a little bit funny sometimes…
This is an ok movie, probably one of the better of the very cheap SWs.
It has many spaghetti-esque ingredients that not all of the lesser SWs have. It was filmed in Spain not Italy, it takes place partly in Mexico, there is some catholic stuff, there is a male relationship between a gringo and a mexican, there is a treasure hunt, et cetera.
Southwood is a bit like Clint Eastwood, more genuinely so than Tony Anthony of the Stranger series, he was more or less a parody of “The man with no name”. Anthony was probably better as Blindman, have to rewatch this one.
The extremely Hollywood-like music when Southwood and the mexican girl kissed stood out for me in a bad way.
I watched the old fandubbed TV print. The film is on Youtube as well, maybe this has better picture quality.
I downloaded the film from Youtube and watched on a small TV in my bedroom. Very good print, english audio, and most likely uncut.