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1/21/09 at 4:37pm
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Re: The Spaghetti Western

Had to add this link to this thread...


Quentin Tarantino's Top 20 favorite Spaghetti Westerns - The Spaghetti Western Database
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1/25/09 at 7:12am
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Re: The Spaghetti Western

Who cares about what Tarantino likes? Anyway, you should check LUST IN THE DUST from 1985.
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6/2/09 at 9:04am
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Re: The Spaghetti Western

Just thought I'd mention that I have just reviewed Matalo.

It is one of a small selection of genre titles that completely shed their American influences and embraced European surreality. Certainly not for the faint hearted, it does come recommended if you think you have seen everything the Western has to offer.
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6/4/09 at 3:20pm
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Re: The Spaghetti Western

Has anyone gotten ahold of this: Spaghetti Westerns 20 Movie Pack? It's another Mill Creek public domain extravaganza, so the prints will look like hell - but are the movies any good?

I've got The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe on another Public Domain set, so I know that one's pretty good - but any word on the rest? I imagine if I keep the ratio of 30% crap, 40% so-so and 30% Awesome that I usualy get with these sets, I'm par for the course, but I was hoping for some words of encouragment.
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7/25/09 at 1:12pm
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A couple more reviews to peruse - New reviews of Have a Good Funeral, My Friend... Sartana Will Pay (1970) and Light the Fuse... Sartana Is Coming (1971).

I've also written an all new biography of Spaghetti Western regular Gianni Garko.
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7/28/09 at 11:47am
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Tim, speaking of Sartana have you checked out this collection yet and do you have any thoughts?

http://www.amazon.com/Sartana-Saga-Spaghettie-Western-Bible/dp/B001HY3B4K/ref=pd_bxgy_d_text_b
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7/31/09 at 4:29am
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Tim, speaking of Sartana have you checked out this collection yet and do you have any thoughts?

http://www.amazon.com/Sartana-Saga-Spaghettie-Western-Bible/dp/B001HY3B4K/ref=pd_bxgy_d_text_b

It does look very interesting, but all bootlegs (one print even still has the television channel logo on it) so I'm not sure I will pick it up. There is more information on the Spaghetti Western forum.
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7/31/09 at 4:32am
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I've got more new reviews of the latest two-film pack from Wild East, this time some seriously obscure genre entries:

Kill or be Killed is a very American style Western, but it is well made and certainly worth watching.

Kill the Wickeds was made at the same time, by the same director, but is something very different - a harsh, brutal and distinctly Italian Western it has an amazing ghost town set and some solid scripting. Recommended to genre fans.
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8/21/09 at 1:03pm
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Two more reviews, although these are not Spaghetti Westerns, being made a full decade after the Italian Western boom came to a spluttering close.

From infamous exploitation director Bruno Mattei, these films have gained a reputation as mere exploitation pieces and do include a lot more blood and sex than we are used to in the Western, but also have some quite impressive storyline and direction (interestingly, Scalps uses a lot of ideas from the earlier American Western Soldier Blue, but uses them a lot more effectively than that often tiresome production).

Available on some nice looking Spanish DVDs, I have just reviewed Apache Kid and Scalps, venganza india (caution, this review has some gory images from the film). They are certainly of interest to fans of the Italian Westerns.

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