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Post by pimpinainteasy on Jan 3, 2019 10:38:49 GMT
THE BIG GUNDOWN (1966) - came out in the same year as THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY. frankly, THE BIG GUNDOWN is as good or even better than any SERGIO LEONE western. man, this movie is full of thrills. in fact, there are two great shootouts in the end played out to two exquisite MORRICONE compositions. MORRICONE packs it in with the good tunes - right from the bombastic title track and the catchy tune filled with animalistic growls that accompany TOMAS MILAN's escapades to the melancholic acoustic guitar piece. the film seems to have some political overtones. i know next to nothing about mexican politics. NIEVES NAVARRO who acted in a couple of giallos i watched last year, is the femme fatale who appears in a brief interlude and tries to turn the men against each other. but the saintly CORBETT (LEE VAN CLIFF) rejects her overtures. what can i say about LEE CAN CLIFF that hasnt already been said? some guys are just born to play tough men on screen. TOMAS MILAN is always great playing sleazy lowlife characters and he does a great job here.
(9/10)
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Post by wmcclain on Jan 3, 2019 12:59:58 GMT
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Jan 5, 2019 11:44:53 GMT
I'll add my support for sure!
If you don't kill me right now, it'll be the last mistake you make.
La resa dei conti (The Big Gundown) is directed by Sergio Sollima and written by Sollima and Sergio Donati. It stars Lee Van Cleef, Tomas Milian, Walter Barnes and Gerard Herter. Music is by Ennio Morricone and cinematography by Carlo Calini.
Superior Spaghetti Western with shades of Zapata for good measure, The Big Gundown finds Van Cleef as bounty hunter - cum - unofficial lawman Jonathan Corbett, whose reputation for bringing in the criminals, dead or alive, has caught the attention of business baron Brockston (Barnes). With an interest in getting into politics, Corbett is sold on Brockston's offer of political help if he will do a job for him. The job is to hunt down a Mexican rogue by the name of Cuchillo (Milian) who is alleged to have raped and murdered a 12 year old girl. Tracking Cuchillo across the land, the Mexican proves to be a slippery customer, and more importantly, Corbett begins to doubt the veracity of the charges against him.
Adios Amigo.
What do you need for a great Italo Western? A leading man with screen presence supreme? Check! Rogue antagonist able to overact opposite the leading man whilst still exuding charm personified? Check! Scorching vistas? Check! A musical score so in tune with the story it's a character all by itself? Check! And violence? Check! Sollima's movie has it all.
Much of the film is about the manhunt and how the two men involved develop a relationship. Cuchillo claims he's being set up and seems to have friends in every town featured in the play. Corbett is a dandy with a gun, but he's not perfect, he can be outsmarted and get caught cold. There's good thought gone into the screenplay in this respect, not putting the anti-hero up as an infallible superman.
Then there's the side-bar narrative strands that show Sollima's political bent, even though this is hardly a heavily politico piece. From class struggles and racism, to asides on the justice system and the fat cats who operate around the system, Sollima does enjoy dangling such carrots. With zippy set pieces fuelled by brooding machismo that is in turn enhanced by the top work from Carlini and Morricone (it's one of Moricone's best scores, real dynamite), this is grade "A" Spaghetti and well worth feasting on. 9/10
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Jan 5, 2019 12:02:26 GMT
you write very well, hitchcok the legend.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Jan 8, 2019 22:30:02 GMT
you write very well, hitchcok the legend. Thanks mate
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Post by Aj_June on Jan 8, 2019 22:33:28 GMT
you write very well, hitchcok the legend. Thanks mate Double bonanza for us who post on sports board and here as well. We get your quality posts on both places.
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