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Country: Italy
Genre: Action
Director: Marino Girolami
Year: 1975
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Roma Violenta is an okay time waster, but not much more than that.
Screenwriter Vincenzo Mannino and director Marino Girolami maintain a quick paced, steady flow of action, but there’s a problem. We’ve seen it all before, many times over. Dirty Harry clones like Roma Violenta live and […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Drama/ Action
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Year: 1986
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Il Camorrista aka The Professor, begins with a statement: “The authors of this film…hope that by viewing this film, the spectators might find further motives to believe in the necessity of the state and laws, as the only and true protection of civil life.”
That’s kind […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western/ Action
Director: Giulio Questi
Year: 1967
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Django Kill… If You Live, Shoot! is ultimately undone by poor direction and less than lucid screenwriting, but it definitely has it’s moments.
In a rather disgusting prologue, a group of bandits, half Mexican and half gringo, slaughter some prospectors and steal their gold. One of […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western/ Action/ Suspense
Director: Antonio Margheriti
Year: 1970
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
A few days ago, I complained about Death Rides A Horse, saying “…revenge is all there is to Death Rides A Horse. There are no deeper issues involved.” God Said To Cain makes Death Rides A Horse seem like a multilayered wallow in philosophy.
And […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western/ Action
Director: Giulio Petroni
Year: 1967
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Meet Bill Meceita (John Phillip Law). He’s got three excellent reasons for revenge. And then there’s Ryan (Lee Van Cleef). He has a bone to pick with the same folks. You see, they sold Ryan out and left him to rot in prison for […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western/ Action/ Suspense/ Drama/ Comedy
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Year: 1970
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
For the most part, Compañeros is a solidly directed, well written piece, with a sturdy structure and a killer ending, but what really makes it work are the wonderful characters created by writer/director Sergio Corbucci and fleshed out by the […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi/ Action
Director: Giorgio Stegani
Year: 1974
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The leader of a Milanese gang, Paolo Mancuso (Antonio Sabato) is a total scumbag, even beyond what you would expect from a pimp and drug dealer. When the Calabrese mafia sends two prostitutes into his zone to turn tricks, he has one of them gang […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western/ Action/ Suspense/ Drama
Director: Sergio Sollima
Year: 1967
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Face To Face has gunfights in it to be sure, but it’s not an action picture. It’s really a character study, and at it’s heart, a philosophical inquiry, like Sergio Corbucci’s masterpiece, The Great Silence.
When Professor Brett Fletcher (Gian Maria Volonté) takes […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western/ Action/ Comedy
Director: Gianfranco Parolini
Year: 1971
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
At first The Return Of Sabata looks like it’s going to be a screed against taxation.
When Sabata (Lee Van Cleef) arrives in town, he finds that McIntock (Giampiero Albertini) is taxing everything in town, supposedly to finance future improvements to the town’s infrastructure.
By […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western/ Action/ Suspense
Director: Giorgio Capitani
Year: 1968
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Pity aging prospector Sam Cooper (Van Heflin). He’s been looking for gold all his life and when he finally gets a decent strike, his partner tries to dry gulch him. Cooper barely makes it back to town alive, but he’s determined to return to […]
