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rmahaney4 2012-05-24 02:11:59

Good spaghetti but nothing special

3 rogues steal a mining company's payroll from Antonio Sabato'sCzechoslovakian mining engineer at the beginning of this rather routineSpaghetti Western. They then spar with the black-clad villain Burton.The story of the transformation of Lee Van Cleef's Cutlip from criminalto marshal is interesting and could have made a really good film, butit is poorly executed with unimaginative direction and music. However,a few of the scenes, particularly those with the hostages, areeffective. If you like SW, then you will find something in this film toenjoy. I did. But if you do not, then avoid. I saw a rather poorquality pan and scan VHS. The film would really benefit fromwidescreen.Lee Van Cleef's performance is good, but as usual with SW there aresome priceless dubbed lines like, "I never saw nor heard so manyb*****ds in all my life. All you men got families that came from allover the world, right? The kid just got here and gets and little badluck and you treat him like a dog. Who the hell do you think you are?You act like you all got hit in the head with a horse!"Top spaghetti western list http://imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=21849907Average SWs http://imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=21849889 For completists only (bottom of the barrel)http://imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=21849890

2012-05-23 12:35:13

Unbalanced

This is a somewhat curious movie, an odd mixture between Italo western,comedy and drama (even melodrama at times!).The main problem is that it isn't quite sure about what it is supposed tobeon the whole. The shooting and fighting scences are pretty trashy. Lee vanCleef and Lionel Stander save some of the scenes although it becomesobviousthat van Cleef is the wrong chap for the role of Cudlip: He's tootalkativeand witty in a conventional way. In the end he's torn apart between hisnewduty as a sheriff and his former life as a thief. You cannot even remotelycompare his role to that of Sentenza or Col. Mortimer in theDollar-trilogy.When nothing better is on, you can probably watch this movie and get alittle bit of entertainment out of it. Also see whether you can reckognizeBud Spencer. He's playing a quite untypical role which does not involvehisfists.