The western!

Possibly the best spaghetti western outside of the Leone bunch. Sergio Corbucci injects this film full of dread and unpredictable resolutions. The setting is so unique to the spaghetti western climate. It all takes place in a blizzard ravaged mountain village. The snow cover territory adds a touch of surreal beauty.
The ever reliable Klaus Kinski is as intense in the role of the bounty hunter, Loco, as he is with his roles in Herzog films. Jean-Louis Tritignant has to carry his role as the great mercenary known as Silence without ever speaking a single word or cry. Amazing on his part, for he brings alot to the character of Silence. I love how he shoots peoples thumbs off. Great concept. The Great Silence also benifits from having the talents of Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicholi score the film. The score is perfect. The main theme is so freakin cool. I have to get my filthy paws on a copy of it A.S.A.P!!!
With an ending that left my jaw dropping to the floor, The Great Silence has fast become one of my all time favorite films. Highly recommended!!!!!

Ive never been a John 'fascist' Wayne fan. Hes pretty one dimensional. But in his long list of films, there are a few i like. But True Grit is a great western. With a couple great scenes featuring alot of killer supporting acts like Strother Martin, Dennis Hooper and Robert Duvall. Glenn Cambell was soso. But the character of Rooster Cogburn is great and i actually liked Wayne here.

Fantastic western. Exellent story and great acting. Even on Costners part.

The one that started the whole spaghetti western kick. Fantastic film a true Eastwood and Leone classic. And a cutting edge score by mastreo Ennio Morricone. He invented the spaghetti western sound!

Exellent sequel to Fist. And better. Possibly my favorite Eastwood western. At least tied with The Good The Bad. Lee Van Cleef adds that extra bit of coolness to this classic. And if i recall Klaus Kinski plays the Hunchback Cleef lights his match off of. Classic scene.

Leones gritty classic brings the Dollars trilogy to a glorious end. Exellent performances from a steller cast. And oh what a beautiful score by Morricone. I still get shivers when ever i hear The Extasy of Gold. Possibly my favorite Eastwood western.

great gritty western in the style of Peckinpah and Fuller.

great Eastwood western.

its like Eastwoods swan song to his western carrer. Hackman is brilliant as the ruthless Sheriff. And Eastwood and Freeman are a fantastic team. Watching this film you feel like this is were the character Eastwood played in the dollars trilogy ended up.

Sergio Leones awsome western is one of the greatest films ever. Henry Fonda is a badass and Bronson does one of his best performances ever.

This film shows Willie Nelson can act with the best of them. Great western. Busy is great. Barbarosa!

The Violent Men benifits from a steller cast. Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyk, Edward G Robinson and Brain Keith. The story is a pretty typical one but doesnt ever feel old or rehashed. The traps Ford uses to ambush Keith in the mountains is great.

This is a gritty, filthy, ultra violent western set in Austalia. The cinematography is amazing. And the use of yellow is unique. This is one of the best westerns made in the last 30 years. Everything about this film kicks ass. Seriously essential veiwing for the fan of westerns!

Django is a classic. Its the most famous spaghetti western outside of the Leone bunch. Although its not as incredible as Sergio Corbucci's later film The Great Silence, its still a great film. The classic story of the lone man who takes on armies. Its violent and paced well. The story is solid and the score is one of the best. Ive been a fan of the score for some time, so seeing it actually put to the film is a real treat. This is essential veiwing for spaghetti western fans and its the film that made Franco Nero a star. Great stuff!

The chemistry between Harris and Mortensen is one of the better "buddy" chemistries ive seen. They really sink their teeth into their roles and made me believe these guys had some history together. I would love to see these guys work together again!!
Its a familiar story thats been told hundreds of times. But its a reliable one. Two hired guns protect a small town from the ruthless clutches of a powerful rancher. Jeremy Irons plays the ruthless rancher with as much bite as Harris and Mortensen put into their characters. In fact all the performances were right on...including ol' lemon biter Zellweger. Lance Heriksen even shows up almost unrecognizable. Is it me or did he look just like Charles Bronson!?
Appaloosa is a great western with a descent dose of good comedy. There really wasnt anything about the film is could pick apart! The score was good too evoking a spaghetti western esque' main theme.

Spaghetti Maestro Enzo Castellari conjures up a really atmosphereic western with a good heaping of symbolism. The story is great and the action top notch...as always with Castellari films. Franco Nero is magnificent as the half breed Keoma who returns home to find it ravaged with plague and over run by baddies. The shoot out near the conclusion is great. Franco Nero is seriously one of my favorite actors and the more films i catch him in the more i love the guy! His emotional range leaves most in the dust. Keoma also benifits from the genius of Woody Strode. His character is definatly a major high light of the film. The score is rather unusual. Some find it detracting of the film...personally i love it and i own it.
One of the better spaghetti westerns!

This little known western is truly a great film. Michael J Pollard chews up his role as the teenage loser Bill The Kid. Pollards a great actor and as far as i know this is his only headline-starring role?
The film has a really weird tone to it, almost documentary. Billy is portrayed as a loser-slacker. He is forced to runaway from home and falls in with a crazy bandit and his prostitue girlfriiend. Theres a great knife fight between the prostitute and another female. The violence is brutaly real! The knife sequence has you on the edge of your seat. Well filmed. And the film ends right were the Kids story really starts. Highly recommended!

If You Live Shoot! is the proper title here. Django Kill was the title given when the film was distributed overseas, as were alot of Spaghetti Westerns at the time to cash in on the Django name.
If You Live Shoot! is a classic Italian Western. It has the nihilistic tone of all Spaghetti Westerns yet its also one of the most depraved of the bunch that ive seen. Its a very violent sadistic film filled with disembowellings, scalping, hangings, molten gold coverings and a gay sex hungry squad of Muchachos! This film is fucking odd to say the least. A very young Thomas Milian stars with an even younger Ray Lovelock. Two of my favorite genre actors. This was way better than i expected it to be.

Incredibly well made Spaghetti western from the director of highly stylish Giallo The 5th Cord, Luigi Bazzoni . Man, Pride & Vengence is not your typical Spaghetti western. For one thing it doesnt even take place in the states. It takes place in Spain. This is a tragic love story first and a western second. Tina Aumont plays a Gypsy whos charm even casts a spell on the viewer. Franco Nero is a soldier who like the viewer falls for the seductive Aumont.
Well photographed, great cast and a seriously cool score from Carlo Rustichelli.

Another total oddity in the Spaghetti Western genre. Rumored to be directed mostly by Mario Bava. I dont see it at all. Its stylish but not Bava stylish. Bava had more control than this. I could see maybe some parts that could of had his touch but thats about it.
Matalo is a really weird film. The bandits dress like cowboy hippies. The style of the camera is all over the place. At times spinning out of control. And one cowboy uses a boomarang to subdue his opponents.
This one is so wierd it has to be seen by lovers of the Italian Western. But its not one to see if your just getting into this genre.

"Somebody once wrote that revenge is a dish that has to be eaten cold. Hot as you are, you're liable to end up with indigestion."
There is some truly great dialogue going on in this fantastic spaghetti Western. This is a great film and one of the very best in the genre. It feels like it had a decent budget behind it. Petroni is a very skillful director here with lots of great camera shoots and a very well paced film. Ive never heard of Petroni until i watched this and now I am curious about the rest of his filmography. Van Cleef and Law share great chemistry on screen. You can tell Van Cleef was having a blast. The dialogue is great and memorable. Van Cleef spouts lots of wisdom to the inexperienced Law. Van Cleef's gunfighter, Ryan, is mysteriously sympathetic and protective of Laws hot headed vengence seeker. Theres several great scenes were Ryan leaves Bill in the middle of nowere so that he is able to get to the gang first.
. The film doesnt shy away from the violence either. Theres alot of great shoot outs. The end climax is a balls out shoot em up that lasts a good ten minutes or so. Petroni films the action well. Lots of great revealing camera shots and some seriously haunting locations.
All of that and Ennio Morricone contribute another classic spaghetti western score here!
BEWARE that this is a title in Public Domain. Its pretty hard to see a good print of this unless you look hard with some research.

A bit of a mixed bag with this one. Its a damn good movie thats bogged down by one of the worst spaghetti western scores ive ever heard in my life. And its composed by three rather competant fellows, Fabio Frizzi, Franco Bixio and Vince Tempera. Its rather 70's rock-folk in a bad way. There are some cool orchestral pieces but the sung songs really annoy!
This ones got a great cast with Fabio Testi, Tomas Milian and the very underrated genius of Michael J Pollard. Pollard i felt was underused and so was Milian's character. Milian says he was cast to cash in on his name. Although his role is great and he does sadistic almost too well. He has some of his finest moments here when playing off of Pollard.
Fulci is an amazing director and this film is full of trademark Fulci style thanks in part to cinematographer, and Fulci regular, Sergio Salvati. From the soft interior lighting to the close up shots.
This is a pretty surreal film for Fulci.. It seems he could not make up his mind were he wanted this one to go atmospherically. The last act stalls and looses pace when we spend waay too much time in snowbound mining town were there is no woman in sight and the men like it that way. The last 7 minutes make up for it though.