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Post by Dirty Epic on Apr 25, 2017 7:21:31 GMT
I think I'd rather watch 'For A Few Dollars More' as I prefer the story & score, TGTBATUgly is a long haul at nearly 3 hours & Eli Wallach's scenery chewing can grate a bit, Rod Steiger does the same in 'A Fistful Of Dynamite'. Yes, I think that's hit the nail on the head there Arthur. I've not seen a Fistful of Dynamite but will try to at some point. I remember an older Rod Steiger in The Specialist. Brilliant post Charles. Do love the 'Dollars' trilogy and many of the others mentioned. Agree TGTBATU is a bit too long - the Angel Eyes camp scene particularly but sort of disagree about Eli Wallach thought he was brilliant as Tuco. Have to go with A Few Dollars More as my pick of the bunch particularly for Van Cleef's Mortimer and Gian Maria Volante's explosive performance as El Indio.
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Post by Brown Cortina on Apr 25, 2017 15:34:30 GMT
I re watched the Trio scene that Gene posted earlier in the thread. It is a great scene and all three had great faces for the roles they played.
The music is excellent too. As Arthur said it's a main part of the enjoyment of watching these films. I have got the Vinyl LP soundtrack for The Good The Bad and the Ugly and also the CD version which has extra tracks on it if I remember correctly.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Apr 25, 2017 17:13:04 GMT
I don't think Sergio Leone would be held in such esteem if it wasn't for Morricone. I watched 'A Fistful Of Dynamite'/'Duck You Sucker' last night & it's the score that holds everything together & gives the film much of its weight.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Apr 25, 2017 17:43:33 GMT
Yes Morricone's music is brilliant. I've loved it for years. He's one of the best film score composers ever. Leone was a good director, but he was very lucky to have Morricone's music in his films. I have some C.D.'s with film scores on them. Once every blue moon I play them in the car.
Another case where a film would be poorer without it's particular score is Psycho. Imagine that film without the theme we all know and love.
Charles.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Apr 25, 2017 17:55:48 GMT
Talking about Lee Van Cleef, I remember reading an article on him about two years ago.
The piece said that Lee had just about given up on acting, and was carving out a career for himself as an Interior Designer or somthing like that. This was just before he got the offer from Leone.
Imagine Hollywood wasting a talent like his ?
After the Dollars trilogy, Lee went on to make a lot of Italian Westerns.
Charles.
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Post by Gene Hunt on Apr 25, 2017 18:32:28 GMT
Talking about Lee Van Cleef, I remember reading an article on him about two years ago. The piece said that Lee had just about given up on acting, and was carving out a career for himself as an Interior Designer or somthing like that. This was just before he got the offer from Leone. Imagine Hollywood wasting a talent like his ? After the Dollars trilogy, Lee went on to make a lot of Italian Westerns. Charles. Lee went into interior decorating after suffering severe injuries in a car crash in 1958. He almost lost his life and was told that the extent of his knee injury would prevent him from ever riding a horse again. He suffered with his injury for the rest of his life. He was also a talented sea & landscape artist. He passed away at 64 years of age from a heart attack (he had heart disease) and throat cancer.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Apr 25, 2017 18:41:30 GMT
Talking about Lee Van Cleef, I remember reading an article on him about two years ago. The piece said that Lee had just about given up on acting, and was carving out a career for himself as an Interior Designer or somthing like that. This was just before he got the offer from Leone. Imagine Hollywood wasting a talent like his ? After the Dollars trilogy, Lee went on to make a lot of Italian Westerns. Charles. Lee went into interior decorating after suffering severe injuries in a car crash in 1958. He almost lost his life and was told that the extent of his knee injury would prevent him from ever riding a horse again. He suffered with his injury for the rest of his life. He was also a talented sea & landscape artist. He passed away at 64 years of age from a heart attack (he had heart disease) and throat cancer. Thanks for that information Gene. Very interesting. I wasn't aware of all those facts. It's great that Lee had the most succesful part of his career after that bad car crash. Charles.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Apr 26, 2017 13:59:13 GMT
Found these on a LVC blog- Who used to watch 'The Master' shown years ago on ITV in the early hours, the tv series featuring LVC as a ninja? I used to love it back in the 80's, particularly the weapons, the throwing stars in particular which I bought a few of & threw them about at school ( I once threw one across a road & a motorbike drove over it, luckily he didn't notice & nothing happened other than the star being mangled ). I watched an episode recently & it was pretty poor!
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Post by Brown Cortina on Apr 29, 2017 18:28:27 GMT
Not seen that before Arthur. Looks a bit like an A Team sort of series perhaps ?
Great story about the throwing stars lol. Reminds me of making some at school in the metal work room out of bits of tin and a pair of snips. They weren't very good stars and of course we got caught making them...school boy error !
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Apr 29, 2017 19:57:36 GMT
Similar sort of thing BC, it was shown on ITV in the late 80s, not sure if it was ever repeated. I enjoyed it at the time but it looks pretty silly today. It featured Sho Kosugi as a 'bad' ninja, famous for a handful of ninja films- Enter The Ninja, Revenge Of The Ninja, Nine Deaths Of The Ninja & Pray For Death. Pray For Death was written by & starred none other than Kenny Ames, James Booth! He even wears the same hat. Booth was in a couple of westerns, 'The Hellions', one of the few British westerns & 'Macho Callahan'.
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