≡ Category: Action, Drama, Essential, Italy, Spaghetti Western, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
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 […]
≡ Category: Drama, Italy, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Drama/ Suspense
Director: Damiano Damiani
Year: 1976
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Giacomo Solaris (Franco Nero), a civic minded filmmaker, creates a film that is a thinly veiled expose of Judge Traini (Marco Guglielmi) who he considers to be crooked. To Solaris’ horror, life imitates art as the third act of his script becomes reality.
Immediately, politicians, […]
≡ Category: Action, Italy, Poliziotteschi, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi/ Action
Director: Michele Massimo Tarantini
Year: 1979
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Poliziotti Violenti gives us something a little different from the Dirty Harry clones common in Poliziotteschi flicks.
Altieri (the great Henry Silva) is an army major who has just been promoted to keep him away from an investigation into some defective parachutes that caused the […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi/ Action/
Director: Stelvio Massi
Year: 1978
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
For the record, I find nothing wrong with ripping off the Dirty Harry template. You’ve got the righteous cop who uses excessive force to get results, the corrupt legal system, the peripheral adventures that have nothing to do with the main thread of the narrative, […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi/ Action/ Comedy
Director: Stelvio Massi
Year: 1977
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
La Banda del Trucido aka Destruction Force starts out like a typical Italian Dirty Harry knockoff. In a pre-credit sequence, Commissario Ghini (Luc Merenda) deals with a trio of hostage takers in the typically hamfisted way we’re accustomed to while his boss does his […]
≡ Category: Drama, Highly Recommended, Italy | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Drama
Director: Damiano Damiani
Year: 1980
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
A Man On His Knees begins with a mystery. Someone has ordered a hit on Nino Peralta (Giuliano Gemma), who runs a small snack stall on a busy street in Palermo. Nino’s best friend, Sebastiano Colicchia (Tano Cimarosa), noticed hit man Antonio Platamonte (Michele Placido), […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi/ Action
Director: Mario Caiano
Year: 1977
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Weapons Of Death is outrageously entertaining from beginning to end. Just don’t expect anything like a serious movie. Every couple of minutes, there’s some gratuitous violence, stunt, or nudity. There’s nothing like a steady, logical buildup, leading to a denouement. Weapons Of Death is composed […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western/ Action/ Comedy
Director: Lucio Fulci
Year: 1966
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
At the center of Massacre Time is an old chestnut of a Western story.
Tom Corbett (Franco Nero) has been away for awhile (in this case panning for gold in California), when a family friend tells him to come home. When he gets there, […]
