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Post by Charles Bronson on May 8, 2017 14:30:15 GMT
The Movies 4 Men channel (48 on Freeview.) are showing three Spaghetti Westerns in succession this evening, including the original Django film.
I will be watching one myself, anyway.
Charles.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on May 8, 2017 14:43:25 GMT
Before them at 5.20pm is 'The Body Stealers', 1969 British sci fi thriller with Patrick Allen & Sean Connery's brother Neil! Not a great film but good fun.
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Post by Charles Bronson on May 8, 2017 17:03:59 GMT
I'll have to catch that one next time it's on, too late now.
I like Patrick Allen. He's the actor who started his own TV voice over company for commercials and stuff isn't he?
From what I heard he became a wealthy man in that business.
I watched Patrick in a film not long ago, with Christopher Lee. It was a science fiction one, set on a Scottish island. His wife in the film was his wife in real life Sarah Lawson. Can't recall the title though.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on May 8, 2017 18:10:37 GMT
I'll have to catch that one next time it's on, too late now. I like Patrick Allen. He's the actor who started his own TV voice over company for commercials and stuff isn't he? From what I heard he became a wealthy man in that business. I watched Patrick in a film not long ago, with Christopher Lee. It was a science fiction one, set on a Scottish island. His wife in the film was his wife in real life Sarah Lawson. Can't recall the title though. Charles. 'Night Of The Big Heat', which is similar to The Body Stealers. I used to have the dvd of The Body Stealers, it had a commentary with Patrick Allen, vey friendly & down to earth bloke he sounded. There's a voice over guy working currently who obviously rips off Allen's voice, he does the announcements on The X Factor, the sad thing is that people who are too young to remember Allen's voice assume this new guy came up with it. |
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Post by Villain on Jul 14, 2017 11:25:14 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. Almeria was also where Dick Lester's 'How I Won The War' was shot in the Autumn of 1966. While John Lennon was there filming his part as Private Gripweed he became quite homesick and wrote 'Strawberry Fields Forever'. Villain  |
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Post by Charles Bronson on Sept 11, 2017 19:34:31 GMT
This is one of the Sartana series of Spaghetti Westerns. The Italian actor Gianni garko made about three of them, but there were some inferior imitations made later on.
I first came across them four years ago, and I'm quite fond of them.
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Post by Cartman on Apr 30, 2023 19:28:21 GMT
I've just finished the Dollars trilogy, in order, the last one was the Good the Bad and the Ugly. It's brilliant, but I agree that the best of the three is For a few Dollars More. I like spaghetti westerns, they are hugely better than the lame, sanitised Hollywood ones, I like the Spanish locations, the grimy, grittiness of them, probably how it would have been.
Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach are great in them. One point in the trains, they are Spanish ones slightly mocked up to look like American ones, the Spanish railways were still running stuff dating back to the 1860s in the 1960s!
Great films
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Post by Dirty Epic on Apr 30, 2023 20:39:29 GMT
Glad you enjoyed the Dollars trilogy Carty.  Yes 'For a Few Dollars More' is my favourite of these El Indio (Gian Maria Volante) is excellent and it's slightly better than Fistful and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly which is great but over long compared to the first two. Having said that Eli Wallach as Tuco in the final film is brilliant too and for me Tuco steals the show from 'Blondie' (Clint) and 'Angel Eyes' (Lee van Cleef) who are pretty good too. I'll try and watch these again sometime soon. |
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