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Post by Charles Bronson on Apr 16, 2017 13:43:58 GMT
I've just ordered a Spaghetti Western collection, (Forty four films in the set.) I was into this genre several years ago, and I've been watching them again lately on the Movies For Men channel, and YouTube. I just can't get enough of these films. There's so much unbelievable crap on the "Terrestial" channels these days that personally I probably wouldn't have a telly at all if it wasn't for DVD's, and YouTube.
The occasional bad dubbing doesn't bother me, it's a bit of a laugh sometimes. I love the action in these films which usually starts immediately. There's no messing around in them. I watched Django again last night for the first time in years.
There's a series of these films with a character called Sartana which I enjoyed a lot several years back, so I will probably give them another viewing soon. I've been a fan of Italian films since I was in my early teens. Can't wait till that collection arrives.
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Post by Gene Hunt on Apr 16, 2017 13:49:55 GMT
I have a fondness for some of them too Charles. The Eastwood / Eli Wallach / Lee Van Cleef trio were a particular favourite for me. Great soundtrack to them too.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Apr 16, 2017 13:58:29 GMT
Yes Gene, The Good The Bad And The Ugly is rated the best of the lot. I haven't seen it all the way through yet. I have a copy upstairs which I bought several years ago. I will have to watch it properly.
I'm a big fan of Once Upon A Time In The West, but the other one is rated the best, and I think that's a correct evaluation. The music is great in some of them, which really adds to the atmosphere. This piece is brilliant. Charles.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Apr 16, 2017 17:09:28 GMT
I'm also a fan of Italian Westerns, probably my favourite is 'Il Grande Silenzio' ( 'The Big Silence' or 'The Great Silence' ), also 'A Fistful Of Dynamite' & 'The Big Gundown', but there are many great ones ( also very many average & poor ones ). The music has a lot to do with my enjoyment of them.
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Post by Bojan Scores on Apr 16, 2017 17:58:46 GMT
The opening sequence to 'Once upon a time in the west' is sheer genius by Leone. As an aside, 'The battle of Algiers' is an Italian production from the same era and is deeply impressive.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Apr 16, 2017 18:16:28 GMT
There are quite a few mentioned here that I've not seen yet, but then again they did make a hell of a lot of them in the sixties and seventies. There's certainly a lot of action in the Italian westerns, I was reading up on them the other day and as the writer said they were a breath of fresh air after the increasingly tame Hollywood westerns produced in the fifties and early sixties.
Yes Bojan that opening sequence in O.U.A.T.I.T.W. is fantastic. Jack Elam played it great. Brilliant direction by Leone. One of the all time great scenes.
Definately men's films though.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Apr 16, 2017 20:21:26 GMT
Quite a while ago I went to Spain & took a train from Madrid to Almeria in the South, Almeria was the location of many Westerns including the Leone classics. I was rather disappointed when I arrived as the main town is not very interesting, I hadn't thought but it's the interior with its dry landscape where the films were shot. It was favoured as a filming location in the 60's & 70's partly due to the intense white sun, something I noticed the day after I arrived. The Sean Connery film 'The Hill' was filmed there. It was only during the train journey from Almeria to Madrid that I saw any of the Western looking locations.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Apr 16, 2017 20:45:42 GMT
I'd love to see the settings in Spain where they filmed the Italian Westerns. The bits of Spain I've seen so far I wan't all that keen on, but I've not seen all that much of it. (I prefer Italy itself.)
The films of course, must have been a hell of a lot cheaper to make there, than the cost of an American made Western though.
Clint Eastwood said one of the reasons he signed up for A Fistful Of Dollars was because he wanted to see Europe as he'd never been there before.
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Post by Vienna on Apr 17, 2017 17:02:01 GMT
I like spaghetti westerns, particular the Dollars trilogy. I recently watched the darker 1969 film Cemetery Without Crosses, which was directed by and starred Robert Hossein. It was actually a French-Italian production.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Apr 17, 2017 17:43:58 GMT
I like the look of this one Vi. Did you watch the dubbed version? the trailer was in Italian. Perhaps it will be in the DVD collection I've ordered anyway.
What I like about these films is that they're undemanding escapism.
I will definately try and get hold of this one.
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