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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: 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 […]
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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, […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western/ Action/ Comedy
Director: Sergio Sollima
Year: 1968
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I have a confession to make. After watching five lackluster movies in a row, I was dreading a sixth. I knew I had to find as close to a sure thing as I could to rinse the bad taste out of my […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western/ Action
Director: Sergio Martino
Year: 1977
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Here in the United States, we are starting to recognize the nature of laissez faire capitalism. It sucks the resources out of a region until exhaustion or collapse and diverts wealth to the very top, creating a tiny class of the super rich, a […]
