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Gunman called Nebraska

SlimNaughton — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:12:55 CST

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Marty Hillman (Alfonso Rojas) isn’t really a nice guy. Once involved in the robbery of the bank of El Paso, he has delivered his old friend to the gibbet, married his young daughter Kay (Yvonne Bastien) by force and vanished with the booty. Now he lives as honest farmer, who has 50.000 dollars in his money sock and a sharp wife in his bed. But on the other side he has not much fun with both and furthermore lots of troubles on his backside: His wife hates him fanatically and wants to see him dead; the former members of the El Paso gang have settled in the near under leadership of evil Bill Carter (Piero Lulli), to wheedle the dough out of him. Moreover Carter is bent on Kay since she was a child.
One day a stranger called Jim shows up at Carter, who engaged the man who’s a real fasthand at the gun: 200 bucks plus fare. Jim, who is righteous in a nearly obtrusive way, which doesn’t bring him many friends. Real soon he has troubles with the Carter family. Carter, who has gained a certain influence in the community, lets kill the sheriff to blame the murder on Jimbo, This now starts playing hardball to elucidate the confusing coherences.
Because of his inquiries, which bring much **** to light, he can convert the new sheriff Brack and the citizens to his column. Now Carter is forced to let fall the rest of his civil carmouflage.

The Gunslinger says:

It’s modern to advertise this flick with the participation of Mario Bava, who’s said to be one of the directors. But his contribution to the film is quite obscure. According to some sources he took over directon from the credited Spaniard Antonio Román. Other participants like Renato Rossini, tell, that Bava only has played a minor part as director, but was quite important with his knowledge and creativity to satisfy the small budget.
Whatever: The result is a dashing hybrid of US- (look) and SW, which misses a position in the genre upper class. Its principal weaknesses are on one side the plot, on the other the montage. Some awkward cuts cause several strange segues and disturb the film’s rhythm: More than once a potentially important dialogue is interrupted unmotivated by an i.e. riding scene and not taken up again. The story falters especially concerning the setting. Why i.e. did the Carter gang buy a ranch instead of questioning Marty about the money first? I couldn’t figure it out. Later on they do it ;-).
Besides that the flick is made solidly and even rough at times. So the camera watches valiantly as Lully treats Clarke with a broken beer bottle and sometimes you’ll be able to detect the one or other bullet hole. Concerning the actors there’s not much to complain: Especially Piero Lulli once again is an entertaining villain. Yvonne Bastien, wife of director Román, is really luscious, and American Ken Clarke(e), who showed up in European cine in some peplums during the early Sixties, makes a good job. Guglielmo Mancori, responsible for the camera work, supplies some nice shots, and the score by Nino Oliviero is enjoyable to listen with its acoustic guitars, trumpet, small horn section and its whistling passages.

Rating: $$$+

Bodycount:

ca. 8 Gringos, 1 Mexicano

Explicit Brutalities:

Women, especially Kay, are walloped occasionally
Two bandidos gorge in front of some hungry Mexicanos and **** them

Luv':

Kay sees in Jim the possibility to flee her hated life. So she throws herself at him without inhibitions. But: no future, compadres. 1/10

Gore:

2/10

Specials:

Jim once has a strong desire for milk, but later on changes to whiskey.

Trailer:

by INUNAKITOGE

OT:
Ringo del Nebraska

AT:
Ringo de Nebraska (El Rancho maldito) (SP)
Ringo from Nebraska (USA)
Savage Ringo

R: Antonio Román (“Anthony Roman”), Mario Bava (not credited)
B: Jesus Navarro, Antonio Romàn, Adriano Bolzoni
K: Guglielmo Mancori
M: Nino Oliviero
D: Ken Clarke, Piero Lulli (“Peter Carter”), Yvonne Bastien, Renato Rossini (“Red Ross”)

Who's got the longest one?

Antonio Gradoli and Livio Lorentzon passing through the warming-up

Blain on the shoulder? Yvonne Bastien and Alfonso Rojas

Cinema in the year 1877

Ken Clarke breaks the hearts of the proudest women

Bloody thirsty: Piero Lulli

Want a smoke?

Piero Lulli starting his charm offensive

Anybody laughing? It's obviously not Ken Clarke

The Spaghetti-Western

SlimNaughton — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:10:24 CST

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It was in the middle of the Swinging Sixties, when the Wild West had migrated to Italy: after some half-baked, US-Western-inspirated efforts, Sergio Leone was kicking off the typical Spaghettiwestern with "A Fistful of Dollars", which rapidly breathed new life into a genre already considered dead and buried on Boot Hill. At the same time, this renaissance meant the cynical end of some basic American myths, such as the traditionally positive motivations of the American Western: exploration, settlement, the building of towns and railroads. These were replaced by new motivations: above all, the thirst for money and revenge. Once positive aspects of the genre, like the railway, suddenly became negative forces which eroded and destroyed human values. The West was no longer a place for idealism...

The Spaghetti (or Macaroni, or Italowestern) genre produced only a handful of really great films until the middle of the 70's. Most of the movies of the genre, usually produced in the former Yugoslavia or in Spain, were of average-to-low quality, and many -- to be honest -- were really crap. But, hey, who doesn't enjoy a good romp in the mud? So let's go, Companeros! This site offers reviews, pictures, and history of the good, bad, and ugly films of the Spaghetti Western -- plus, our own incompetent and highly subjective criticism! Enjoy!

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SlimNaughton — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:09:27 CST

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Get mean (Get mean) T
Get the Coffin ready (Preparati la Bara!) T
Go for Broke (Tutto per tutto) T
God forgives ... us not (Dio perdona ... Io no!) T
God’s Gun (Diamante Lobo) T
God was his Colt 45 (La Colt era il suo Dio) T
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo) T
Goodbye Texas (Texas addio) T
Gunman of Nebraska (Ringo del Nebraska) T
Gunman of one hundred Crosses (Una Pistola per cento Croci) T
Hands of a Gunman (Il Destino di un Pistolero)
Hate thy Neigbour (Odia il Prossimo tuo)
Have a nice Funeral (Buon Funerale, Amigos ... paga Sartana) T
Heads You Die... Tails I Kill You (Testa t'ammazzo, Croce... sei morto... Mi chiamano Alleluja) T
The Hellbenders (I Crudeli) T
Holy Water Joe (Acquasanta Joe) T
If one is born a Swine (Voltati ... ti uccido) T
If one is born a Swine ... kill him (Carogne si nasce)
If you meet Sartana, pray for your Death (Se incontri Sartana prega per la tua Morte)
I want him dead (Lo voglio morto) T
If you want to live … shoot! (Se vuoi vivere … spara!) T
Kill him (Mátalo!) T
Killer goodbye (Killer adios) T
Killer Kid (Killer Kid) T
King of the West (El Desperado) T
Kitosch, the Man Who Came from the North (Kitosch, l'Uomo che veniva dal Norte)

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SlimNaughton — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:46:44 CST

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Addobbati, Giuseppe "John McDouglas"		Death rides along The last Killer
Adinolfi, Ugo		A Fistful of Lead Bullet for a Stranger
Altamura, Tulio "Tor Altmayer"
Alvarez, Angel
Anchóriz, Leo
Andronico, Enzo
Anthony, Tony
Áranda, Angel
Ardia, Pinuccio "Joel Hardy"		Bullet for a Stranger El Cisco
Ardisson, Giorgio "George Ardisson"		May God forgive you ... but I won’t
Arena, Fortunato
Ariè, Bruno
Aureli, Andrea "Andrew Ray"		Chuck Moll Sabata
Bagolini, Silvio
Balbo, Ennio		Days of Wrath
Baldassarre, Raf
Balducci, Franco		Death rides a Horse
Barberito, Aldo		A Fistful of Lead Bullet for a Stranger Sartana's here ... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin
Barboo, Luis
Barnes, Walte		The big Gundown
Bartha, John		A Fistful of Lead Sartana's here ... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin
Barto, Dominic
Basile, Pasquale
Battaglia, Rik
Battista, Lloyd
Berger, William		Bullet for a Stranger California El Cisco Django strikes again If you meet Sartana, pray for your Death Sabata
Berling, Peter
Berti, Aldo
Betts, Jack "Hunt Powers"		A Barrel full of Dollars Ballad of Django
Biava, Claudio
Blanco, Hugo
Bloch, Lars
Bodalo, José		Companeros Django
Boido, Frederico "Rick Boyd" "Ryck Boyd"		A Fistful of Lead Anything for a Friend Sartana's here ... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin
Bojanic, Dragomir "Anthony Ghidra"		The last Killer May God forgive you ... but I won’t
Bonos, Luigi "Duane Bowland"
Bos, Roel "Glenn Saxson"
Bosic, Andrea		A Fistful of Lead Days of Wrath Death rides along Two Faces of the Dollar
Borgese, Sal		Adios Sabata
Brana, Francisco "Frank Brana"		A Coffin for the Sheriff A Gun for one hundred Graves Adios Gringo
Bravo, Carlos "Charlie Bravo"		Cemetery without Crosses
Brega, Mario "Richard Stuyvesant		A Fistful of Dollars Death rides a Horse
Calvo, Armando		A Coffin for the Sheriff Sartana's here ... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin
Calvo, José		A Fistful of Dollars Days of Wrath Dead Men ride
Camardiel, Robert		A Fistful of Lead Adios Gringo The big Gundown
Canalejas, José "Joe Camel"
Candelli, Stelio "Stanley Kent"
Cantafora, Antonio
Cardillo, Giuseppe "Steven Tedd"
Carey Jr., Harry
Caruana, Calogero "Ted Jones"
Casas, Antonio
Castel, Lou
Casale, Antoni
Ceccarelli, Lanfranco		The big Gundown
Cecconi, Aldo "Hal Chessman"		10,000 Dollars Bloodmoney
Cerulli, Fernando
Cevenini, Alberto "Kirk Bent"
Chaplin, Sydney		If you meet Sartana, pray for your Death
Chiantoni, Renato "Gary Gallwey"
Cianfriglia, Giovanni "Ken Wood"		Chuck Moll No Drums, no Trumpets
Clark, Ken
Cleri, Dante
Cobianchi, Franco "Peter White"
Cobos, German
Conte, Richard		Death Sentence
Conversi, Spartaco "Sean Convery" "Spean Covery" "Spean Convery"
Corazzari, Bruno
Cressoy, Pierre "Peter Cross"		Adios Gringo

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SlimNaughton — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:58:02 CST

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Ladies

Damon, Mark
Dawson, Anthony		Death rides a Horse
Dell'Acqua, Alberto "Cole Kitosch" "Robert Widmark"		Seven Guns for the MacGregors
Dell'Arti, Consalvo
del Pozo, Àngel
Di Benedetto, Giovanni
Di Marco, Gildo
Djrassimovic, Ivan "Ivan Rassimov" "Sean Todd"		Don't wait Django ... shoot!
Dominici, Arturo "Arthur Kent"
D'Orsi, Umberto
Eastwood, Clint		A Fistful of Dollars
Fangareggi, Ugo
Fajardo, Eduardo		A Coffin for the Sheriff A Gun for one hundred Graves Companeros Dead Men ride Django
Fantasía, Franco "Frank Farrell"		Adios Sabata Canadian Wilderness Sartana's here ... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin
Fargas, Frank		The last Killer
Faria, Celso		Don't wait Django ... shoot!
Felleghy, Tom		The big Gundown California El Cisco Two Faces of the Dollar
Fiermonte, Enzo
Franchi, Franco
Gaddi, Carlos "Charles Gate"		Beyond the Law Death rides along Django, the Bastard Sartana's here ... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin
Garcia, Tito
Gargiullo, Giorgio		Days of Wrath Death rides along
Garko, Gianni "John Garko" "Gary Hudson"		10,000 Dollars Bloodmoney Bullet for a Stranger Charge! If you meet Sartana, pray for your Death
Garrone, Riccardo
Gazzara, Victoriano "Fred Robsham"
Gemma, Giuliano "Montgomery Wood"		Adios Gringo California Days of Wrath
Girolami, Ennio "Thomas Moore"
Giornelli, Franco
Girotti, Mario "Terence Hill"		All the Way, Trinity
Gonzales, Gaspar "Indio Gonzales"		Dig your Grave, Friend ... Sabata's coming
Gora, Claudio "Emil Jordan"
Gozlino, Paolo		A Fistful of Lead Django, the Bastard
Gradoli, Antonio "Anthony Caldwell"
Guglielmi, Marco		You Die... But I Live
Harrison, Richard
Herlin, Jacques
Herter, Gerard		Adios Sabata The big Gundown Two Faces of the Dollar
Hill, Craig		Taste for killing
Hill, Jorge "George Hilton"		A Fistful of Lead Sartana's here ... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin
Hirenbach, Karl "Peter Lee Lawrence" "Arthur Grant"
Huerta, Chris		Cemetery without Crosses You Die... But I Live
Hungerford, Orton Whipple "Ty Hardin"
Induni, Luis
Ingrassia, Ciccio
Ireland, John		A Gun for one hundred Graves Blood River
Israel, Victor
Jaspe, José
Kinski, Klaus		A Barrel full of Dollars And God said to Cain Ballad of Django Black Killer If you meet Sartana, pray for your Death

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SlimNaughton — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:04:15 CST

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Adiutori, Patrizia
Aumont, Tina
Badou, Dominique
Baratto, Luisa "Liz Barrett" "Louise Barrett"
Baron, Emma
Benussi, Femi		Quintana - dead or alive
Bianchini, Erica "Erica Blanc"
Bresciani, Dalia "Dalia"
Broschero, Dominique
Carreddu, Stefania "Kareen O'Hara"
Cazorla, Anna-Maria "Diana Lorys"
Celi, Celina
Chelli, Alida
Cristal, Perla		Seven Guns for the MacGregors
Darel, Dominique
Fabrizi, Valeria
Fiè, Maria "Gloria Milland"
Flori, Agata		A Fistful of Lead Seven Guns for the MacGregors
Fontaine, Corinne
Galli, Ida "Evelyn Stewart"		Adios Gringo Chuck Moll
Genka, Gely
Ghia, Dana		All the Way, Trinity California The last Killer
Giordano, Daniela
Giorgelli, Daniella
Iosani, Cristina		May God forgive you ... but I won’t
Klein, Rita
Koch, Marianne		A Fistful of Dollars
Lembo, Lilli		Death Sentence May God forgive you ... but I won’t
Linder, Christa		Days of Wrath
Loncar, Beba
Macchiavelli, Nicoletta
Martin, Diana
Martinez, Maria "Maria Martin"		You Die... But I Live
Michelangeli, Marcella		And God said to Cain
Miranda, Soledad
Navarro, Nieves "Susan Scott"		Adios Sabata The big Gundown
Neri, Rosalba
Nilo, Alejandra
Nusciak, Loredana		10,000 Dollars Bloodmoney Django
Osuna, Gloria "Evelyn Merril"		A Gun for one hundred Graves
Palmich, Mariella
Paz Pondal, Maria
Penz, Cristina
Pierangeli, Maria
Rassimov, Rada		Don't wait Django ... shoot! Taste for killing
Ross, Sara(h)
Rovere, Rossana
Rubini, Giulia		Canadian Wilderness
Sannoner, Milla "Jill Powers"
Sarasa, Aurora Julia "Monica Randall"		Sartana's here ... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin
Sini, Linda "Lynn Shane"
Sommer, Yanti		All the Way, Trinity
Stanic, Mila
Tolo, Marilu
Tudor, Pamela		Canadian Wilderness
Zalewska, Halina "Ella Karin" "Ilya Karin"
Zichel, Rosy
Zurakowska, Dyanik "Dianik"

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SlimNaughton — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:02:49 CST

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Sabato, Antonio		Beyond the Law
Salerno, Enrico Maria		Death Sentence You Die... But I Live
Sancho, Fernando		10,000 Dollars Bloodmoney The big Gundown Dig your Grave, Friend ... Sabata's coming If you meet Sartana, pray for your Death Seven Guns for the MacGregors Taste for killing
San Martin, Conrado
Santacruz, Alfredo
Santaniello, Enzo
Sanz, Francisco		Dead Men ride
Saunders, Ray "Rai Saunders"
Scarciofolo, Giovanni "Jeff Cameron" "Glenn Fortell"
Scotti, Andrea "Andrew Scott"
Scratuglia, Giovanni Ivan
Severini, Attilio
Southwood, Charles		A Fistful of Lead Sartana's here ... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin
Spalla, Ignazio "Pedro Sanchez"		Adios Sabata Don't wait Django ... shoot! May God forgive you ... but I won’t Quintana - dead or alive Sabata
Spoletini, Guglielmo "William Bogart "William Spolletin"		Death rides a Horse
Staccioli, Ivano "John Heston"		Bullet for a Stranger Cemetery without Crosses
Stander, Lionel		Beyond the Law
Stefanelli, Benito "Benny Reeves"		A Fistful of Dollars All the Way, Trinity The big Gundown Cemetery without Crosses
Strano, Dino "Dean Stratford"		Chuck Moll Quintana - dead or alive
Suarez, José "Joseph Mitchell"
Susani, Angelo
Tate, Lincoln
de Teffè, Antonio "Anthony Steffen"		A Coffin for the Sheriff Django, the Bastard
Testi, Fabio		Blood River Dead Men ride
Tordesillas, Jesús
Tordi, Pietro "Peter Tordi" "Peter White"
Torres, José		Death rides a Horse
Torres, Tomás
Tozzi, Fausto
Trilli, Amadeo "Michael Moore" "Mike Moore"
Ukmar, Franco "Frank Ukmar"
Undari, Claudio "Robert Hundar"
de la Vega, Alfonso
van Cleef, Lee		Beyond the Law The big Gundown Days of Wrath Death rides a Horse God’s Gun Sabata
van Husen, Dan
Vargas, Daniele		Cemetery without Crosses The last Killer
Vida, Piero
Viotti, Feruccio
Volonté, Claudio "Claudio Camaso"
Wallach, Eli
Wyler, Richard
Wynn, Keenan
Zacharias, Steffen
Zamperla, Nazzareno ("Neno") "Nick Anderson"		Seven Guns for the MacGregors
Zarzo, Manuel

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SlimNaughton — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:45:01 CST

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Last Gun (Jim il Primo)
Last Gunfight (Il Venditore del Morte) T
The last Killer (L'ultimo Killer) T
Little Rita of the West (Little Rita nel West) T
Long Days of Hate (I lunghi Giorni dell'Odio) T
The long Day of the Massacre (Il lungo Giorno del Massacro)
Long live the Revolution (Tepepa) T
Magnificient Texan (Il magnifico Texano) T
Man and a Colt (Un Uomo e una Colt) T
Man from Nowhere (Arizona Colt) T
Man with the golden Pistol (L'Uomo dalla Pistola d'Oro)
Massacre at Grand Canyon (Massacro al Grande Canyon) T
May God forgive you ... but I won’t (Chiedi perdono a Dio... non a me)
Minnesota Clay (Minnesota Clay) T
The Moment of Killing (Il Momento di uccidere) T
My Name is Mallory ... M means Death (I mio Nome e Mallory ... M com Morte) T
My Name is Nobody (Il mio Nome é Nessuno) T
My Name is Pecos (Due Once di Piombo) T
A Name that cried Revenge (Il suo Nome gridava Vendetta) T
Noose for Django (Una lunga Fila di Croci) T
One by One (Ad Uno, ad Uno ... spietamente)
One more to Hell (Uno di piu all'Inferno) T
One silver Dollar (Un Dollaro bucato) T
Quintana – Dead or Alive (Quintana) T
Quinto: Fighting Proud (Quinto: non ammazzare)
Poker with Pistols (Un Poker di Pistole) T
Pray and rest (Requiescant) T
Pray to kill and return alive (Prega il Morte e amazza il Vivo)
The Price of a Man (El Precio de un Hombre) T
The Price of Power (Il Prezzo del Potere) T
Pride and Vengeance (L'Uomo, l'Orgoglio, la Vendetta) T
A professional Gun (Il Mercenario) T
Raise your Hands, dead Man! You're under Arrest! (Su le Mani Cadavere! Sei in Arresto) T
Rattler Kid (L'Uomo venuto per uccidere) T
Return of Halleluja (Il West ti va stretto, Amico ... he arrivato Alleluja!) T
The Return of Clint, the Stranger (Il Ritorno di Clint il Solitario) T
The Return of Ringo (Il Ritorno di Ringo) T
Return of Sabata (È tornato Sabata... hai chiuso un'altra volta) T
Revenge of Trinity (La collera del vento) T
Reverend's Colt (Reverendo Colt) T
Ride and kill (Cavalca e uccidi) T
Ringo and his golden Pistol (Johnny Oro) T
Ringo, Face of Revenge (Los cuatro Salvajes) T
Ringo: The Killer (Una Pistola per Ringo) T
Ringo, the lone Rider (Dos Hombres van a morir)
The Road to Fort Alamo (La Strada per Forte Alamo) T
Royal Mounted Police (Giube rosse)
Run, Man, run! (Corri Uomo corri) T
Ruthless Colt of the Gringo (La venganza de Clark Harrison) T

Run, Man, run!

SlimNaughton — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:42:51 CST

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After the peon and notorious tramp Cuchillo (Tomas Milian) has been chased through the Sierra Madre, despite he was innocent, he returns home to his bride Dolores (Chelo Alonso). But shortly after his arrival he is arrested again because of his bad reputation. In jail he meets Ramirez (José Torres), author and head of La Revolución. Although he will be released the next day, he bets Cuchillo to help him to escape right now, because there are lots of bandidos and killers on behalf of the government waiting for the rebel to kill him against a nice fee.
Well, it’s not as that much difficult for Cuchillo to break free and deliver Ramirez safely to his hideout, where his comrades are waiting for him. But there’s new trouble rising: Riza (Nello Pazzafini), a bandido, who once has killed for the revolution, shows up to get his part of a certain amount of gold, Ramirez has “collected” for his revolutionary plans. Because he doesn’t like to share, Ramirez and some other peones are killed in the following “argument”. With his last breath he tells Cuchillo the whereabouts of the gold, appealing to the honour of the rogue. And now Cuchillo starts running again, chased by professional gunmen, Mexican bandidos, bigoted Salvationists and sinister ex-Sheriff Cassidy (Donal O’Brian).

The Coffinnail says:

The third Western stroke by Sergio Sollima after „The big Gundown“ and „Face to Face“.
Pushed by his ambitions to complete his trilogy, Sollima staged this flick with less money and time as he had for “Face …” But his tense love to the genre, his bunch of great actors and a tight story are the constants of this trilogy.
Even if you realize, that Sollima worked with smaller resources: He didn’t save on the main ingredients. The details are coherent and carefully, the motivation of the characters is comprehensible, the atmosphere is great. Like in its predecessors we get much message inhere too, despite Sollima denied having made “political” Westerns: Cuchillo only steals that, what he needs for living; Dolores rats Cuchillo for 1000 $, because she fears, that the gold will destroy their common life; everyone, who tries to enrich himself with the treasure ends up with empty handy hands or dead.
Tomas Milian acts with incredible enthusiasm and embodies the naïve, loveable and even tricky Cuchillo with great verve. Beside him all other actors pale to sidekicks, but warhorses like Luciano Rossi, Freddy Boido, Nello Pazzafini, Dante Maggio, John Ireland (who even sparkles as a general of the revolution) and many others top the whole thing off.
It’s a pity, that Sollima hadn’t got the money and the time, which would have been appropriate to the final of the trilogy. But for all that this last part doesn’t pale against its predecessors. Great pleasure without regrets! He runs and runs and runs … ;-)

Rating: $$$$+

Explicit Brutalities:

Cuchillo has to undergo several partial fanciful tortures:

Bound with his hands on a gibbet, he is tickled by Cassidy with a knife
Bound the same way, Mexican soldiers put him a stick of dynamite in his mouth … with burning fuse
The two agents fix Cuchillo at a windmill vane and off we go

Luv':

Despite all of his wedding vows Cuchillo’s love for Dolores grows stronger and stronger the farther he’s away from her. 2/10
Marginal note: Chelo Alonso and Tomas Milian both are born Cubans, what according to Sollima was fitting like a glove concerning her characters. Rrrrright!

Gore:

3/10

Specials:

Cuchillo still didn’t learn shooting: He uses knifes – the weapon of the poor - skilfully and has one hidden all over his body ;-)

Trailer:

by ItaloWestern

OT:
Corri Uomo Corri

AT:
The Big Gundown II

Year: I 1968
D: Sergio Sollima
S: S.S., Pompeo De Angelis
C: Guglielmo Mancori
M: Bruno Nicolai, Ennio Morricone
with: Tomas Milian, Donal O´Brian, Federico Boido, John Ireland, Linda Veras, Luciano Rossi, Nello Pazzafini, Chelo Alonso, José Torres

As born Cuban Tomas Milian naturally is expert concerning cigars

In the (Salvation-) Army now. (T.M., Linda Veras)

If you mett Donal O'Brian it usually ends deadly

Nello Pazzafini appreciates more than a good swig

Marco Guglielmi and Luciano Rossi try to be natives

Chelo Alonso ogles Tomas Milian

Last exit Brooklyn

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SlimNaughton — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:05:15 CST

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10,000 Dollars Bloodmoney (10 000 Dollari per un Massacro)
30 Winchester for El Diablo (30 Winchester per El Diablo) T
A Barrel full of Dollars (Per un barra piena di Dolari) T
A Coffin for the Sheriff (Una Bara per lo Sceriffo) T
A Dollar a Head (Navajo Joe) T
A Fistful of Dollars (Per un Pugno di Dollari) T
A Genius, Two Partners And A Dupe (Un genio, due compari, un pollo) T
A Gun for one hundred Graves (Una Pistola per cento Bare)
A long Ride from Hell (Vivo per la tua Morte) T
A Man called Blade (Mannaja) T
A Man called Joe Clifford (Un Uomo chiamavato Apocalisse Joe) T
A Man from the East (... E poi lo chiamarono il Magnifico) T
A Stranger in Paso Bravo (Uno Straniero a Paso Bravo)
Adios Gringo (Adios Gringo) T
Adios Sabata (Indio Black sai che ti dico: Sei un gran Figlio di ...) T
All the Way, Trinity (...continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità ) T
And God said to Cain (E Dio disse a Caino ...) T
Anything for a Friend (Amico, mio, frega tu ... che frego io!)
Arizona (Arizona si scateno … e li fece fuori tutti) T
At the End of the Rainbow (Anda Muchacho, spara!) T
Ballad of Django (Giù la testa ... Hombre) T
Beyond the Law (Al di là della Legge)
The big Gundown (La Resa dei Conti) T
The big Silence (Il grande Silencio) T
Black Jack
Black Killer (Black Killer)
Black Tigress (Faccia a Faccia con El Diablo) T
Blood River (Dieci bianchi Uccisi da un piccolo Indiano)
Bulldozer is back, Amigo (Si può fare … Amigo) T
Bullet for a Stranger (Gli fumavano le Colt ... lo chiamavano Camposanto) T
California (California)
Canadian Wilderness (I Tre del Colorado)
Cemetery without Crosses (Une corde, un colt) T
Charge! (Campa Carogna ... la Taglia cresce) T
Chuck Moll (Ciakmull, l'Uomo della Vendetta)
El Cisco (El Cisco)
Companeros (Vamos a matar, Companeros) T
Cut-Throats Nine (Condenados a vivir) T
Days of Wrath (I Giorni dell’Ira)
Dead Aim (Lucky Johnny)
The deadliest Gunfight (I lunghi Giorni della Vendetta) T
Dead Men don't count! (¿Quién grita venganza?) T
Deaf Smith and Johnny Ears (Los Amigos)
Death rides a Horse (Da Uomo a Uomo) T
Death rides along (Con lui cavalca la Morte)
Death Sentence (La Sentenza di Morte)
Dig your Grave, Friend ... Sabata's coming (Abre tu Fosa, Amigo, llega Sabata ...)
Django (Django) T
Django kill ... if you live shoot (Se sei vivere, spara!) T
Django kills softly (Bill il Taciturno) T
Django shoots first (Django, spara per Primo) T
Django strikes again (Django 2: il grande Ritorno)
Django, the Bastard (Django il Bastardo)
Don't wait Django ... shoot! (Non aspettare Django ... spara!)
Drop them or I'll shoot (Gli Specialisti)
Drummer of Vengeance (Il Giorno del Giudizio)
Even Django has his Price (Anche per Django le Carogne hanno un Prezzo)
Fast Hand is still my Name (Mi chiamavano ‚Requiescat’ … ma avevano sbagliato) T
Few Dollars for Django (Pochi Dollari per Django) T
Find a Place to die (Joe ... cercati un Posto per morire)
The 5 Man Army (Un Esercito di cinque Uomini) T
For one thousand Dollars per Day (Per mille Dollari al Giorno)
For 100.000 Dollars for a Killing (Per 100.000 Dollari ti ammazzo)
Fury of Johnny Kidd (Dove si spara di più) T

Django kill ... if you live shoot

SlimNaughton — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:02:57 CST

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S-Z
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Content:

What a happy day this could have been, especially if one considers the successful ripping of a Yankee gold transport. But as it comes to the sharing of the booty, Oaks (Piero Lulli), leader of the pack, isn’t up for letting his Mexican partners to share to the gold. Instead of gold dusk the Mexicanos get a load of lead, followed by a first class funeral in the desert sand. Only one of them (Tomas Milian) succeeds in escaping his dusty grave and is found by two Indians, who revive him rapidly and go along with him from now on. As a special present they found him some bullets out of some booty-gold.
in the meantime Oaks and his boys reach a little town, among Indians known as “The unhappy Place”. The citizens thump law, order and God, but maltreat women, children and animals at the same time to the worst. Spokesmen are saloon owner Templer (Milo Quesada) and the local shop-owner Hagerman (Francisco Sanz), who both discover very fast, who the newcomers are and what kind of goodies they carry. Under the cloak of love of justice they organize a lynchmob, which makes a good job of it. Additionally Hagerman and Templer make sure for the gold for themselves.
Then the stranger with his two companions enters the scene and perforates Oaks with some golden bullets without killing him. This is prevented by Mr. Zorro (Roberto Camardiel), who owns the whole neighbourhood: Zorro wants to save Oak’s life, because he needs some information from him. But as the citizens discover, that the bullets in Oak’s body are of pure gold: They eviscerate the man nearly with their bare hands. Bad luck, for Mr. Zorro.
After all Zorro realizes, what Hagerman and Templer, who antagonized each other in the meantime because of problems with dividing the gold, had cashed on. Now Zorro and his mob, dressed in black completely, reach out their greedy hands for the gold too. In the middle we see the stranger, whom everyone wants either to ally with or even better get to rid of.

The Gunslinger says:

Even a few days after starting, Questi’s single SW has vanished out of the Italian cinemas. The reason was not only, that the flick supplies some hardship, but also and even more, that there are a lot of political and religious allusions.
So Questi pampers us with an extreme rough pace, which offers some really hard physical brutalities. To begin with the killing of the Mexicanos, the lynchmob, the literal disrupture of Oak’s by the greedy citizens or the scalping of one of the Indians, with is shown at length. Hard stuff, even if you consider the year of origin. Furthermore the film includes with the character of gay Zorro and his mob, who rape Templer’s son Evan and drive him to commit suicide, a touch, which one can call homophobic.
But this is qualified, because anything and anyone get one’s just deserts. For example society and religion: Whereas Zorro and his mob make no bones about their ambitions, which they even opine offensively, the “honest” citizens conceal their greed, their racism, their horniness under a façade of decency and values. But they are demasked over and over: So the bandits are killed quite brutally; Templer immolates his son for the gold and later hides it in his coffin; the lynchmob kills an Indian only for being one; children serve as footstools, to mention only a few examples. The gold, which nearly everybody excepting the stranger tries to get, doesn’t bring good luck to any of its temporary proprietors, but only death. If you like, you can interpret this as critique against capitalism, but you can leave it be just as well ;-).
The Stranger’s character is interesting: It seems as if the Indians succeed in reviving him, but there are some indications, that he is returned as a living dead, to pay for his guilt. For example his astonishing fast recreation isn’t possible, even if you have got special Indian herbs ;-); the Indians always question him about his experiences in the afterworld; the bullets, Oaks fired on him at point-blank range seem to miss him; the number of golden bullets he owns, determines the duration of his stay in the village; he washes his hands frequently and intensively.
Despite of the rhythm, which to me is a bit slow, there’s hardly anything to complain about. The actors all are at their best, especially Roberto Camardiel, we usually know as humorous sidekick, comes across well as villain. The score by Ivan Vandor is very fine: It’s not outstanding, but supplies a catchy title theme, orchestrated basically with guitars and strings.

Rating: $$$$+

Bodycount:

ca. 30 Gringos, ca 8 Mexicanos, 2 women

Explicit Brutalities:

Oak’s men force the Mexicans to dig their own graves and bump them off cold blooded
Children are used as footstools
Lynchmob: The bandits are drowned, slew with rifle-butts, hung up with their feet, etc.
The Stranger warps Oaks with some golden bullets without finally killing him. This is done later on by the citizens, who wrench the gold from him with bare hands
Evan is raped by the Zorro gang
The inhabitants scalp an Indian
Zorro’s gang crucify the Stranger to question him fort he gold. The following torture with geckos and bats however is a bit cute

Luv':

There is some kind of love between Elisabeth, the „mad“ wife of Hagerman, held as a prisoner by her husband ... but, well, love's short and has no future: 0/10

Gore:

5/10

Specials:

The stranger uses golden bullets
A horse serves as demolition charge
Well ... a blowtube

Trailer:

by ItaloWestern

OT:
Se sei vivere, spara!

AT:
Oro maldito (SP)
Oro hondo (SP)

Year: I/SP 1967
D, S: Giulio Questi
S: Franco Arcalli, Maria del Carmen Román
C: Franco Delli Colli
M: Ivan Vandor
with: Tomas Milian, Roberto Camardiel, Milo Quesada, Francisco “Paco” Sanz

Piero Lulli doesn't want to devide the dough

It's the same old song: Some people have the guns, ...

... the others have to dig

Pleas don't perforate my sombrero, hombre

Tomas Milian is coming to town

Soo we'll have some action ... in gold, please

If Mr. Milian doesn't want to ...

... the peroquet sure will

Tomas Milian seems to pass a casting for "Jesus Christ Superstar"

Ray Lovelock as the ountry cousin

Roberto Camardiel takes the complaints of "Paco" Sanz and Milo Quesada

The Actors

SlimNaughton — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:45:27 CST

Directors

Actors

Composers, Authors, Cameramen

Name	Pseudonym
Addobbati, Giuseppe Altamura, Tullio Ardia, Pinuccio Aureli, Andrea Baldassare, Raffaele Barbara, Paola Bayona, Pilar Bayona, Emilia Baratto, Luisa Batzella, Luigi Bellini, Adriano Benedetti, Luciano Berger, Wilhelm Bianchi, Erica Blasco, Maite Bomba, Enrico Bono, Luigi Boni, Maurizio Borelli, Franco Brana, Francisco Brega, Mario Betts, Jack Boido, Frederico Bojanovic, Dragomir Boes, Roel Buzzanca, Gino Calisti, Calisto Candelli, Stelio Capponi, Pier Paolo Cardillo, Giuseppe Caruana, Calogero Casella, Paolo Cassellato, Luigi Careddu, Stefania Cazorla, Anna Maria Cecconi, Aldo Cevenini, Alberto Chiantoni, Renato Cianfriglia, Giovanni Conversi, Spartaco Conti, Luciano Cressoy, Pierre Dardanelli, Marco Davis, Marco Dell'Acqua, Alberto de Luca, Lorella De Nardo, Gustavo de Teffè, Antonio Djrassimovic, Ivan Domenici, Arturo Dottesio, Attilio Egger, Joseph Fantasia, Franco Farnese, Alberto Fiè, Maria Fiermonte, Enzo Gaddi, Carlos Galli, Ida Garisa, Antonio Garko, Gianni Gazzara, Victoriano Gemma, Giuliano Girolami, Ennio Girotti, Mario Giuliani, Luigi Gora, Claudio Gradoli, Antonio Hargitay, Miklosz Hill, Jorge Hirenbach, Karl Hungerford, Orison Whipple Lange, Claudia Landi, Aldo Bufo Lanfranchi, Mario Lantieri, Franco Leone, Ignazio Leoni, Amerigo Lollobrigida, Guido Lorentzon, Livio Maggio, Dante Malfatti, Marina Manzella, Leonardo Manni, Ettore Marano, Ezio Marchetti, Giulio Martellanza, Pietro Martinez Celeiro, Francisco Martinez, Maria Miali, Roberto Mercedes, Germana Monteverdi Muniz, Manuel Nero, Franco Osuna, Gloria Otero, Carlos Pacifico, Benito Padovan, Marta Palenzuela, Miguel Pallavicino, Gianni Palmara, Mimmo Pamer, Renzo Pannaro, Alessandra Pazzafini, Nello Pedersoli, Carlo Petrucci, Giovanni Pizzuti, Riccardo Poggi, Ferdinando Poli, Maurice Prete, Giancarlo Pulcrano, Enzo Puppo, Romano Radici, Luigi Induni Rafaelli, Giuliani Rosin, Spela Rossi, Luciano Rossini, Renato Salerno, Maria Sannoner, Milla Sarasa, Aurora Julia Saunders, Ray Scarciofolo, Giovanni Scotti, Andrea Serrato, Massimo Sivero, Florencia Spalla, Ignazio Spoletini, Guglielmo Staccioli, Ivano Steffanelli, Benito Stern, Helga Stella, Luciano Strano, Dino Suarez, José Tensi, Francesco Trilli, Amedeo Turini, Gino Unger, Goffredo van Nutter, Rik Varelli, Alfredo Vitelli, Simonetta Volonté, Gian Maria Zalewska, Halina Zamperla, Nazzareno	John MacDouglas Tor Altmayer Joel Hardy Andrew Ray Raf Baldassare, William Baldwyn Pauline Baards Phyllis Bay Millie Bay Liz Barrett, Louise Barrett Paolo Solvay Kirk Morris Lucky Bennett William Berger Erica Blanc Margaret Grayson Steve Saint-Clair Duane Bowland Maurice Boone Stanley Gordon Frank Brana Richard Stuyvesant Hunt Powers Rick Boyd, Ryck Boyd Anthony Ghidra Glenn Saxson Bill Jackson Anthony Stewens Stanley Kent Norman Clark Steven Tedd Ted Jones Paul Sullivan Louis Cassel Kareen O'Hara Diana Lorys Hal Chessman Kirk Bent Gary Gallwey Ken Wood Sean Convery Lucky McMurray Peter Cross Max Darnell Mark Davis Cole Kitosch, Robert Widmark Hally Hammond Dean Ardow Anthony Steffen Ivan Rassimov, Sean Todd Arthur Kent William Burke Joe Edger Frank Farrell Albert Farley Gloria Milland Glen Forster Charles Kent Evelyn Stewart Anthony Garuf John Garko, Gary Hudson Fred Robsham Montgomery Wood Thomas Moore Terence Hill Jim Reed Emil Jordan Anthony Caldwell Mike Hargitay, Mickey Hargitay George Hilton Peter Lee Lawrence, Arthur Grant Ty Hardin Claudie Lange John Levery Johnny Jordan Frank Liston, Frank Lantier Clive Stancon Custer Gail Lee Burton Charles Lawrence Dan May, Jean Mean Marina Mulligan Leonard Mann Red Carter Alan Abbott James Hill Peter Martell George Martin Maria Martin Jerry Wilson Pat Greenhill Pajarito Frank Nero Evelyn Merril Charles Otter Dennis Colt Martha Dovan Billy Hyden Gordon York, Charles Webber Dick Palmer Lawrence Palmer Topsy Collins Ted Carter, Peter Surtess Bud Spencer John Petty Rick Piper Ferd Poger Monty Greenwood Philipp Garner, Timothy Brent Paul Craine Roman Barrett Luis Induni, Lewis Induni Julian Rafferty Sheyla Rosin Lu Karmante, Edward Ross Howard Ross, Red Ross Marta Monterrey Jill Powers Monica Randall Rai Saunders Glenn Fortell, Jeff Cameron Andrew Scott John Barracuda Flo Silver Pedro Sanchez William Bogard John Heston Benny Reeves Helga Liné Tony Kendall Dean Stratford Joseph Mitchell Harry Cotton Mike Moore John Turner Freddy Hungar Clyde Rogers Fred Warrell, Fred Farrell Simone Blondell Johnny Wels Ella Karin, Ilya Karin Nick Anderson

Gents L - R

SlimNaughton — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:39:58 CST

Gents A-C

Gents D-K

Gents L-R

Gents S-Z

Ladies

Lanfranchi, Mario "Johnny Jordan"
Lantieri, Franco "Frank Liston" "Frank Lantier"		10,000 Dollars Bloodmoney
Leone, Ignazio "Clive Stancon"
Leroy, Philippe
Loddi, Loris
Lollobrigida, Guido "Lee Burton"		And God said to Cain Cemetery without Crosses Charge!
Lorentzon, Livio
Piero Lulli "Peter Carter" "Peter Lull"		A Gun for one hundred Graves Taste for killing
Macchi, Valentino
Madison, Guy		No Drums, no Trumpets
Maggio, Dante "Dan May"
Maggio, Mimmo
Manni, Ettore "Red Carter"		Anything for a Friend
Maran, Evar "Evaristo Maran"
Marano, Ezio "Alan Abott"
Marquand, Serge		Cemetery without Crosses
Martellanza, Pietro "Peter Martell"		Chuck Moll May God forgive you ... but I won’t
Martin, José Manuel		No Drums, no Trumpets Taste for killing
Martinez Celeiro, Francisco "George Martin"		Canadian Wilderness Taste for killing
Mateos, Julian
Miali, Roberto "Jerry Wilson"
Milian, Tomas		The big Gundown Companeros Death Sentence
Mitchell, Gordon		A Barrel full of Dollars Anything for a Friend Ballad of Django Beyond the Law
Möhner, Carl
Montefiori, Luigi "George Eastman"		Chuck Moll The last Killer
Mulock, Al
Nero, Franco		Companeros Deaf Smith and Johnny Ears Django Django strikes again
Nieto, José	(?)	Dead Men ride
O'Brien, Donal "Donald O'Brian"
Ojinaga, Cesar
Pacifico, Benito "Dennis Colt"		A Barrel full of Dollars Anything for a Friend Ballad of Django
Palacios, Ricardo
Palance, Jack
Pallavicino, Giovanni "Gordon York" "Charles Webber"
Palmara, Mimmo "Dick Palmer"
Pazzafini, Nello "Ted Carter" "Peter Surtess"		Adios Gringo The big Gundown Bullet for a Stranger
Pedersoli, Carlo "Bud Spencer"		All the Way, Trinity Beyond the Law
Peña, Julio
Pesce, Franco		A Fistful of Lead A Gun for one hundred Graves Don't wait Django ... shoot! If you meet Sartana, pray for your Death May God forgive you ... but I won’t Taste for killing
Pevarello, Osiride
Pigozzi, Luciano "Alan Collins"
Pinciroli, Renato (?)
Pistilli, Luigi
Pizzuti, Riccardo
Poggi, Ferdinando "Ferd Poger"		No Drums, no Trumpets
Poli, Mimmo "Johnny Lerman"
Puppo, Romano "Roman Barrett"		Beyond the Law The big Gundown Chuck Moll Deaf Smith and Johnny Ears Dead Men ride
Preston, Wayde
Prete, Giancarlo "Timothy Brent" "Philip Garner"
Pulcrano, Enzo "Paul Craine"
Quesada, Milo
Raffaelli, Giuliano "Julian Rafferty"		And God said to Cain
Ressel, Franco "Frank Ressel"		All the Way, Trinity Bullet for a Stranger California Sabata Taste for killing
Rey, Fernando
Richardson, John
Rigaud, George "Jorge Rigaud"
Righi, Massimo "Max Dean"		Adios Gringo Seven Guns for the MacGregors
Robledo, Lorenzo
Roca, Vicente "Vincent Rocca"
Rojas, Alfonso
Rojo, Gustavo
Rojo, Antonio Molino
Roland, Gilbert
Rosato, Lucio "Luc Rosat"
Rossi, Luciano "Lu Karmante" "Edward Ross"		Chuck Moll Death Sentence Django, the Bastard Sartana's here ... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin
Rossini, Renato "Howard Ross" "Red Ross"
Rossi-Stuart, Giacomo
Ruffini, Claudio		A Fistful of Lead
Runachagua, Aysanoa

S - Z

SlimNaughton — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:48:59 CST

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G-K
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L-R
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S-Z
(Spaghettiwestern)

Sabata (Ehi, Amico ... c'e Sabata: Hai chiuso!) T
Sartana's here ... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin (C'è Sartana... vendi la Pistola e comprati la Bara) T
And Sartana killed them all (Lo irritarono ... E Sartana fece Piazza polita) T
Seven Dollars on the Red (7 Dollari sul Rosso) T
Seven Guns for the MacGregors (Sette Pistole per i MacGregor)
Seven Hours of Gunfire (Sette Ore di Fuoco)
Seven Pistols for a Massacre (Sette Pistole per un Massacro)
Seven Winchesters for a Massacre (Sette Winchester per un Massacro)
Shoot first … ask Questions later (Il Bianco, il Giallo, il Nero) T
Shoot, Gringo ... Shoot! (Spara, Gringo, spara) T
Sometimes Life is hard – Right, Providence? (La Vita, a Volte, è molto Duro, vero Provvidenza?) T
Sons of Trinity (Trinità & Bambino … e adesso tocca a noi)
A Stranger in Town (Un Dollaro tra i Denti) T
Stranger in Sacramento (Uno Straniero a Sacramento)
Stranger... make the Sign of the Cross! (Straniero, fatti il Segno della Croce!) T
The Stranger returns (Un Uomo, un Cavallo, una Pistola) T
Sugar Colt (Sugar Colt) T
Sundance Cassidy and Butch the Kid (Vivi o, preferibilmente, morti) T
The tall Women (Donne alla Frontiere)
Taste for killing (Per il Gusto di uccidere)
Terrible Day of the big Gundown (Quel maledetto Giorno della Resa dei Conti)
Tex and the Lord of the Deep (Tex Willer e il Signore degli Abissi)
Three Musceteers of the West (Tutti per uno … Botte per tutti) T
Three silver Dollars (Dai nemici mi guardo io!)
Train to Durango (Un Treno per Durango)
The Tramplers (Gli Uomini dal Passo pesante)
Trinity and Sartana are coming (Trinità e Sartana Figli di ...) T
Trinity plus the Clown and a Guitar (Prima ti suono e poi ti sparo)
Twice a Judas (Due Volte Giuda )
Two Faces of the Dollar (Le due Facce del Dollaro)
Two Sons of Trinity (I due Figli dei Trinità) T
Vengeance (Joko invoca dio ... E Muori)
Vengeance is a Dish served cold (La Vendetta é un Piatto che si serve freddo)
The Violent Breed (Keoma) T
Viva! Django (W Django!)
Wanted: Johnny Texas (Johnny Texas)
Why go on killing? (Perché uccidi ancora?) T
A Woman for Ringo (Una Donna per Ringo)
(Yankee) T
You Die... But I Live (Bandidos) T
You're Jinxed, Friend, You've Met Sacremento (Sei jellato Amico, hai incontrato Sacramento) T

And Sartana killed them all

SlimNaughton — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:45:50 CST

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(Spaghettiwestern)

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Content:

Sartana (Gianni Garko) and his buddy Marcos (Guglielmo Spoletini) raid a bank together with the two Burton brothers, who vanish with the booty. From now on the betrayed try to get back the 100,000 dollars. And luck is not on the side of the Burtons: Sartana and Markos get the younger brother; the older one is kept with the money by mad Richard Kirby and his four sons. In the meantime our duo is joined by greedy Maria Anderson (Maria Silva). They kill the Kirbys and get back the dollars. But now Marcos and the lady take the money and run. At the end Maria betray good old Marcos too and opens a casino with the dollars. But last word is not spoken yet, because Marcos and Sartana get together again.

The Gunslinger says:

Flabby Italo by Rafael Romero Marchent, even if you consider the fact, that it contains many brutalities, which we somewhat appreciate, compadres ;-).
Purely technically there is not much to complain about, because actors, atmosphere and score are passable, but the story supplies only a poor version of the well-known basic structure.

Rating: $$

Bodycount:

ca. 21 Gringos, 4 women

Explicit Brutalities:

Marcos and Sartana bind the younger Burton brother to a wood chair and blow him up with a bar of dynamite.
Sartana kills a man only due to a bet.
Marcos and Sartana hang the deputy of Piedas Negras short hand, after they have hit him strongly.
Sartana kills the unarmed Kirby sitting in the wheelchair.

Luv':

... is only a word: 0/10

Gore:

0/10

Trailer:

(friendly provided by ItaloWestern)

OT:
Un par de Asesinos

AT:
Lo irritarono ... E Sartana fece Piazza polita (I)

Year: SP/I 1970
D: Rafael Romero Marchent
S: Joaquin Romero Marchent, Santiago Moncada, Mario Alabiso
C: Guglielmo Mancori
M: Marcello Giombini
with: Gianni ("John") Garko, Guglielmo Spoletini ("William Bogard"), Maria Silva, Luigi Induni Radici ("Luis Induni")

Guglielmo Spoletini and Gianni Garko are real Italian stallions ;-)

Maria Silva likes Garko's "intrinsic values"

Gianni Garko is in top shape

Andres Mejuto (?) still without a hole in hi forehead

Dead Aim

SlimNaughton — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:02:02 CST

There are some nice bullet holes: 4/10

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S-Z
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Content:

As Deek’s (Carlos East) wife Sarah (Barbara Angely) with their little son and her lover Sonny (Sonny Vandeusen) flees from home, the cuckolded husband starts the chase. The denouement is fatal: Deek and Sonny die of their bullets, whereas Sarah dies of thirst. Only the boy survives, because he is rescued by the travelling undertaker John Applebee (James Westerfield), who passes accidentally and who calls him simply John.
As Johnny (Glen Lee) is grown up, he still travels the desert with his “stepdad”, whom he helps burying corpses. When they are running out of bodies, what is possible even in the times of Civil War ;-), Johnny, who is a psycho before the Lord, provides for some new bodies with his fast hand.
Both men dream of a better life: a funeral home of their own up in the north. Whereas Applebee wants to reach this aim with legal methods, Johnny would prefer to go on the fast lane and rob a bank. But then luck seems to be on their side: Just as they arrive in the “province capital” to visit the local brothel, the Yankees obviously had the same idea and burn the city down. After Johnny has killed a man in the turmoil during one of his violence attacks, they find a nice amount of gold in the dead man’s pocket.
The signs bode well for them, to say Adios to their miserable life. But unfortunately Johnny felt in love in the meantime, namely with Maria (Venetia Venello), who he only ”knows” from afar and a drawn warrant. Maria is an ex-hooker, who robs or better tries to rob banks with her lover Jack (Virgil Frye). The problems is, that the banks don’t hold any money because of the war. And this unreachable Maria engrosses Johnnie’s dreams more and more.

The Gunslinger says:

Quite unusual and unknown SW, produced in Mexico under Mexican control. Because of its meditative character and the veeeery fluffy staging, it seems as if the involved persons have awarded to certain country-specific, fungoid refreshments during the shooting. That means: not bad, folx.
Strictly speaking he plot tells three different strands, which converge not until the end: the undertaker story, the strand about Jack and Maria plus a short digression to Lucius, the black deserter. this could be irritating over large parts, because one doesn’t know, where the hell the story’s going to. If you’re over such a critical analysis or if you haven’t started at all to make considerations like this, the real nucleus of the flick comes to light: puuuure atmosphere, brothers and sisters.
The film plays only in the desert: the towns are deserted, the humans are completely beside themselves – morally degenerated, without even traces of respect. Material wealth is the only thing, that counts, and because this is out of reach, there’s nothing left, what counts. The two undertakers bury on credit, what means on payment forms of an authority, which has ceased to exist. For them a human being has his worth not till he’s dead. Because of an early trauma Johnny gets the urge to kill, what he does without hesitating and emotionless. Strange government representatives – soldiers – can’t hardly be hindered to rape Maria; others – a Commissioner (Jorge Russek) – engage in chasing “niggers” and outlaws. Great “end-of-the-world-atmo” without hope for improvement, and finally also the film’s title turns out as an euphemism.
The score is quite bizarre too. With its Wah-Wah-effects, strings and horns or in its piano passages it remembers me more on a 70s-crime-flick then a Western. In my opinion you love or you hate this film which stands in a row with glimmering masterpieces as “Kill him!”: there’s nothing in between. Thumbs up from me!

Rating: $$$$+

Bodycount:

ca. 16, 2 women

Explicit Brutalities:

The Commissioner und his right hand (Tony Monaco) enjoy the show, as Lucius and a white cell mate (Billy Joe Rouck) fight for live and death in the Black Maria

Luv':

Johnny adores Maria, but they never really meet: 0/10

Gore:

There are some nice bullet holes: 4/10

OT:
Lucky Johnny

AT:
Lucky Johnny: born in America
Arde, Baby, arde (MEX)
Il Serpente a Sonagli (I)

Year: MEX/I 1973
D, S: José Antonio Bolaños
S: Pedro Miret, Tony Monaco
C: Alex Philips
M: Luchi de Jesus
with: Glen Lee, James Westerfield, Venetia Venello, Evaristo Márquez

James Westerfield puts the child in a good humour with a snake's rattle

A new customer gets on

Everything hunky-doryt, mate? Glen Lee and Billy Joe Rouck

The public servant of your trust: Jorge Russek

With best regards of the shotgun

Venetia Venello: You really wanna get me in my underwear?

Virgil Frye plays the bigshot

Beyond the Law

Sargnagel — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:23:17 CDT

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European engineer Ben Novak (Antonio Sabato) arrives in the West to start a new job in the silvermine of James Cooper (“Bud Spencer”). To give this greenhorn the wages for the mineworkers to take with him, was not such a good idea: Novak is duped by three devious crooks (Lee Van Cleef, Lionel Stander, Al Hoosman), who steal the whole money. But Billy Cudlip (Cleef), leader of the pack, feels himself somewhat like responsible for the poor Novak and takes him a bit under his wings. Shortly after Novak has to get some new money to pay the angry workers, and he pleads Cudlip to escort him. This has brewed a new trick to steal the money again, but Novak has notelessly seen through the rogues. So the plan fails, and to cap it all, Cudlip and his friends have to defend the money against the gang of evil Burton (Gordon Mitchell), who is mainly interested in capturing the silver of Cooper’s mine. He sends some men to check the situation, but these are taken in and captured by the “Cudlip Crew”. From now on Cudlip’s reputation reachs a new high, and he is nominated as the new sheriff of Silvertown. But Burton follows “Plan B”, and he holds all women and children for ransom: the whole silver. Furthermore Cudlip’s old mates wanna get the silver too.

The Gunslinger says:

Skillfully made routine production, which didn’t really capture me until its unexpected hard final. Up to this point the film is an iffy comedy, in which however especially Lee Van Cleef and Lionel Stander credibly give quite sympathetic shortys. This prevailing mood changes, as Cudlip suddenly gets the sheriff-star. Instead of using it to “earn” some more money, as expected by his mates, he becomes a real law-abiding cop. The result is an increasing strangement between the former friends. Cudlip decides himself consequently against his old comrades and his old life, without having a new alternative: Finally he gives back the star – disgusted, lonely and embittered. Beardless "Bud Spencer", plays the nasty capitalist, who sits on his silver until the first girl is killed. Ortolani supplies a classic orchestral score.

Rating: $$$

Bodycount:

37 Gringos, 1 Woman

Explicit Brutalities:

The Burton-Gang kills a young woman, as Copper refuses to come out with his silver

Luv':

0/10

Gore:

1/10

Trailer

by rodneyedge

OT:
Al di là della Legge

Year: 1968 (I/FRG)
D, S: Giorgio Stegani
S: Mina Roli, Fernando di Leo, Lorenzo Sabatini ("Warren D. Kiefer")
C: Enzo Serafin
M: Riz Ortolani
with: Lee Van Cleef, Antonio Sabato, Lionel Stander, Al Hoosman

Antonio Sabato, rolled over by "Bud Spencer"

Gordon Mitchell nd his plans

Lee van Cleef needs a horse

Whatta nice little star, mates

Antonio Sabato has the longest ... gun

Royal Mounted Police

SlimNaughton — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:10:13 CDT

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Tough Sergeant Bill Cormack (Fabio Testi), member of the Mounties, is getting alarmed as evil „Cariboo“ (Guido Mannari) escapes out of jail. „Cariboo“, once a friend of Cormack, has sweared revenge because the latter has arrested him because of murder and has married his former fiancee (Lynne Frederick). The gangster kidnaps Cormack’s little son Jimmy (Renato Cestiè) to lure the desperate father in a trap. But also „Cariboo’s“ former gang under leadership of sadistic Wolfe (Claudio Undari) is on the run, because only their ex-boss knows about the whereabout of the booty of a robbery. During the chase through the wintry landscape hostage and kidnapper build up a certain kind of friendship. Then little Jimmy falls sick heavily. But what for are there some Indians and sottish Doc Higgins (Lionel Stander)?

The Gunslinger says:

Thrilling snow western, made really skilfully by multitalented Aristide Massacessi („Joe D’Amato“). The film keeps tension up to its end, and its story finally presents something Hitchcock perhaps would have called a „McGuffin“. Good actors and supply, a tighten plot and the great wintry nature enhance this film over the Spaghetti standard. Even if some purists don't see this flick as a SW ;-)

Rating: $$$$-

Bodycount:

ca. 18

Explicit Brutalities:

Nada

Luv':

Testi and Mannari court for nice Brit actress Lynne Frederick. But Mannari is better in beating her up instead of kissing her, whereasTesti stays a little bit uninvolved the whole time. Know what I mean? 0/10

Gore:

1/10

OT:
Giube rosse

AT:
Cormack of the Mounties
Red Coat (USA)

Year: I 1974
D, S, C: Aristide Massaccesi ("Joe D'Amato")
S: Claudio Bernabei
M: Carlo Rustichelli
with: Fabio Testi, Guido Mannari, Claudio Undari ("Robert Hundar"), Renato Cestiè, Lars Bloch, Lionel Stander

Guido Mannari wears the hottest coat north of the Pecos ...

... but does is still look nice with a hole in it? Fabio Testi checks it out

Lionel Stander delivers from behind

Revenge of Trinity

SlimNaughton — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:34:55 CDT

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Marco ("Terence Hill") and his half brother Jacobo (Mario Pordo) are professional killers with irreproachable reputation. A group of landowners under the direction of Don Alfonso (Fernando Rey) take on both to keep their peons down, who become increasingly rebellious. Shortly after he is arrived in the village, Marco kills an agitator (Carlo Alberto Cortina), who plants ideas of liberty and human working conditions into the heads. But these ideas become effective, and also Marco doubts about he bumps off the right people. He changes sides and pulls together with the exploited peons from now on. But finally his brother Jacobo prevents, that Marco and the pretty tavern boss Soledad (Maria Grazia Buccella) can ride together into the sunset: The disaster is inevitable.

The Gunslinger says:

Serious Spaghetti Western with socialcritical background, directed by Mario Camus in 1970. "Terence Hill" shows a convincing transformation from a ruthless killer to a thinking man. Even more impressive however is Fernando Rey in his minor role as obstinate, merciless landowner Don Alfonso, who loses everything by his attitude.

Rating: $$$$

Luv':

Ayayay: Soledad and Marco seem to love each other: 3/10

Gore:

0/10

Trailer:

by SpoonMHD

OT:
La Collera del Vento

AT:
The Wind's Anger (USA)
The Wind's Fierce (GB)
Trinity sees red (USA)
Non perdono, Nessuno sono (I)
La Cólera del Viento (SP)

Year: SP/I 1970
D: Mario Camus
S: Alberto Silvestri, Mario Cecchi Gori
C: Roberto Gerardi
M: Augusto Martelli
with: Mario Girotti ("Terence Hill"), Maria Grazia Brucella, Angel Lombarte, Maximo Valverde, Fernando Rey, Mario Pordo, William Layton

The blue-eyed killer (M. Girotti)...

... sometimes brings his victims alive...

... but he mostly prefers them dead.

No pity for the majority

Reverend's Colt

SlimNaughton — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:27:21 CDT

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Dexter is a quiet little town, where live goes on slowly. If there are some problems, Sheriff Donovan (Richard Harrison) re-establishs law and order – with the little help of his nice mustache. Things are-a-changin’, as Daniel Miller (Guy Madison), an old friend of Donovan, enters the scene. Miller, once forced by a traumatic experience in his childhood to become a hard-boiled bountyhunter, is now a priest and wants to build a church in Dexter. But as a bunch of mobsters attack the bank and kill the cashier, things are blamed on Miller. To avoid being lynched and to gain the confidence of the citizens, he chases the bandidos. On his way Miller and his fast colt .45 help some settlers against the same bandits, who want to rob a treasure of the Confederate Army, hidden in one of the waggons. The group reachs an abandoned fort. Now the poor people have to suffer under the siege of the gangsters, the limited water store and the hoooooot sun. To crown it all, a group of Mexicanos is interested in the treasure too.

The Gunslinger says:

Well, this film starts quite OK, but looses its line to reach ist poor end nearly without tension nor action. The direction – credits go to Argentinian Leon Klimovsky, but in fact Marino Girolami did the work – isn’t able to dramatize the situation of the locked. Furthermore the gangsters act without ambition: Even as the settlers destroy the doors of the fort by mistake, Mestizo (Ennio Girolami) doesn’t have the nuts to attack. Why this hippiesque pansy is searched by a 20k-warrant? I don’t know, folx. A poor oeuvre, despite of the fact, that we’ve got a capable staff: no technical mistakes. Gianni Ferrio contributed quite a good scor, which is a mixture aof classical spaghetti- and 60s-instrumenal club-sounds in its best moments.

Rating: $$

Bodycount:

ca. 16 Gringos, 3 Mexicanos, 1 child

Luv':

Ex-Bandit Gary (Giuseppe Cardillo aka „Steven Tedd“) loves Katy (Maria Salerno), and gambler Fred Smith (German Cobos) falls in love with his sister-in-law, the widow Dorothy (Perla Cristal), who uses to hate him: 2/10

Gore:

1/10

Specials:

blind

Trailer:

by SpoonMHD

OT:
Reverendo Colt

Year: I 1970
D: Leon Klimovsky
S: Tito Carpi, Manuel Martinez Remis
C: Salvatore Caruso
M: Gianni Ferrio
with: Guy Madison, Ennio Girolami ("Thomas Moore"), German Cobos, Richard Harrison, Maria Salerno ("Marta Monterrey")

Guy Madiso as a living "lead thundery front"

German Cobos gets a bullet by Guy Madison

Richard Harrison and his pornstache ...

... don't like Hippies very much: Ennio Girolami