I’m hoping someone can help me identify a Spaghetti Western I saw on television as a kid… so it would have been from the 60’s or very early 70’s. The film opens with a group of outlaws riding peacefully into a ranch/town, before brutally slaughtering everyone there… it was a violent scene with children being shot down, a girl being hacked with a machete, etc. The ranch owner’s son was the only man in town and he was sick in bed, and they killed him as well. I specifically remember one of the bandits got a pitchfork to the face and had the scars throughout the rest of the film (like I said, a violent movie). Does anyone have any idea what film this might have been?
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Welcome to the SWDB, NilsHelstrom.
It definitely sounds to me like ‘Big Jake’ (1971), starring John Wayne.
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Oh, wow, thanks, I need to check this out. I would not have guessed it was a John Wayne movie (I guess that’s why I couldn’t find it), the violence left an impression on me as a kid and I wouldn’t have thought it was ‘mainstream’. Much appreciated!
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Yes - this definitely sounds like Big Jake. Contains the old ‘I thought you was dead’ dialogue every time Wayne is seen that later turned up in Escape From New York.
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I just ordered up the blu-ray. It will be interesting to see if I feel the same about it as I did when I was a kid!
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Nils, let us know what you now think after you’ve watched it again… 