DEATH WALKS IN LAREDO isn't a great movie but it is an entertaining oddity and definitely in on its own gimmick--the tone is lighthearted and it's never far from a laugh, years before the success of the Trinity movies made those things an unfortunate element in spaghetti Westerns.
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It's #SpaghettiSunday and do you want to see something different? Track down Enzo Peri's DEATH WALKS IN LAREDO (1967), a wonderfully nutty genre mash-up of spaghetti Western and, of all things, peplums, with some James Bondian gadget fetishism thrown in for good measure.
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The Unholy Four (1970) Prison escapees looking for gold make it to the home town of one of the title quartet, an amnesiac, who is given conflicting accounts of his backstory. Leonard Mann, Woody Strode, George Eastman, and one more. #SpaghettiSunday
That annoyance aside, this is a great, great movie--the best from the "twilight spaghetti Western" era. Among other things, a good antidote to those who, for many years (when the movies weren't widely available), thought Euro-Westerns began and ended with Sergio Leone's pictures.
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KEOMA's only real shortcomings is the soundtrack. Spaghetti Westerns often featured great music. This one takes its inspiration--quite badly, alas--from McCABE & MRS. MILLER. But musically, it ain't no McCABE & MRS. MILLER. Results not so pretty or overly easy on the ears.
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Keoma returns home from war to find that a local thug has taken over the town and that his half-brothers have allied with the tyrant. Keoma, stalked by Death himself, becomes the protector of a pregnant woman--bearing the hope for the future and targeted by the regime.
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After the major spaghetti Western cycle had run its course, Enzo Castellari provided the genre with one of its best. KEOMA (1976) starred Franco Nero, in an endlessly visually inventive, allegorical, even mystic tale of life & death, freedom & tyranny, brother against brother...
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Duck, You Sucker! aka Fistful of Dynamite (1971) A Mexican Bandito and an Irish revolutionary are unlikely allies in Sergio Leone's epic. Rod Steiger and James Coburn star, Morricone score and Margheriti FX #SpaghettiSunday
Don't Wait, Django... Shoot! (1967) Ivan Rassimov is Django in this one. He shoots a lot of people who also shot a lot of people with the usual vengeance and gold on the line. Mediocre. #SpaghettiSunday
Two Crosses at Danger Pass (1967) Raised by religious pacifists after the brutal murder of his parents, a young man returns to his home town for revenge but finds himself conflicted as he was raised to reject violence. w. Peter Martell, Mara Cruz, Diyanik Zurakowska. Paella western #SpaghettiSunday
Arizona Colt aka Man From Nowhere (1966) Wanted outlaw Gordo liberates a prison to recruit for his gang of banditos, but Giuliano Gemma (Tenebre), with the whitest teeth in the west, prefers to ride alone. w Corrine Marchand & Rosalba Neri. At 1:56, it's about 20 minutes too long. #SpaghettiSunday
Man, Pride & Vengeance (1967) An army sergeant's infatuation with a beautiful but conniving prostitute leads him to become a fugitive and an outlaw. Tina Aumont & Franco Nero star in this different, Euro-set western based on Carmen from the director of the Fifth Cord. w Klaus Kinski #SpaghettiSunday
Forgotten Pistolero aka Gunman of Ave Maria (1969) Separated since an in-home massacre & killing of their father, a brother & sister are reunited by vengeance against their murderous mother & her dastardly darling. Great Movie w. Pilar Velázquez & Luciana Paluzzi d. Ferdinando Baldi #SpaghettiSunday
Comin' at Ya! (1981) A gunslinger goes to war with bad guys who kidnapped his bride into a prostitution ring. The 1st 3D movie in years, saw it theater but remember not a single thing! I wasn't into spaghetti westerns when I was 11. Something flew at the camera about once per minute #SpaghettiSunday
Roy Colt & Winchester Jack (1970) Sheriff & Outlaw are looking for treasure while vying for the affection of a native prostitute w/ wedding bells in her eyes & trying to keep it from a Russian killer who calls himself "Reverend" in this spaghetti western/buddy comedy from Mario Bava #SpaghettiSunday
Franco Nero is a half-breed who returns home to find his village infected by disease, and the townsfolk, including his three half-brothers really, really want to murder a pregnant woman whom the believe to have the plague in Enzo G. Castellari's Keoma (1976) #SpaghettiSunday
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The Hellbenders (1967) Post civil war confederates sneak a stolen fortune across the country under the guise of relocating a dead Colonel's body. With Joseph Cotten and Norma Bengell (Planet of the Vampires) From Sergio Corbucci (The Great Silence, Django) #SpaghettiSunday
Antonio Sabato stars as an amnesiac gunfighter mixed up in a murder plot and a war over land involving Klaus Kinski in director Nando Cicero's TWICE A JUDAS, a good little mystery tale from the spaghetti West from 1969 (cinematography by Joe D'Amato).
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Sometimes you just wanna spend #SpaghettiSunday with a proven classic. This was a 2003 restoration of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) I had in my DVR form a @tcmtv.bsky.social showing. Never gets old
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One of the high-points of the EuroWestern and _the_ high-point of Sergio Corbucci's career--the movie in which he perfected his project of creating an anti-Western that still functions entirely as a Western. Great, great movie.
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Il Grande Silenzio aka The Great Silence (1968) Snow Hill, surrounded by horse-eating mountain people, is visited by a mute hunter of bounty hunters and a new sheriff. Klaus Kinski isn't afraid of any of them. Great cast, Morricone score. One of the best westerns I've seen. #SpaghettiSunday
and rounding out the Spaghetti Western posters from the Alamo, one with Marisa Mell, and another with Soledad Miranda! #SpaghettiSunday (3/3)
8 more Spaghetti Western posters from the Alamo, that one with Tina Aumount, Klaus Kinski and Franco Nero is called Man, Pride & Vengeance in English and it looks like it streams, what a cast! Got a couple with George Hilton in there and one with Adam West! #SpaghettiSunday (2/3)
I want to share the wonderful Spaghetti Western posters on display at the @alamodrafthouse.bsky.social on Mueller in Austin. I don't think I've seen any of these, so I need to get busy! #SpaghettiSunday (1/3)
Chuck Conners and his gang of killers is hired by the Confederate Army to steal Union gold, but honor among thieves is put to the test when he's ordered to Kill Them All and Come Back Alive (1968) From Enzo G. Castellari and featuring zero females. #SpaghettiSunday
A widow seeks help from an ex to avenge her husbands death, but finds revenge is a bad seed that bears bitter fruit in Cemetery Without Crosses (1969). Written, directed by, and starring Robert Hossein (Argento has a co-writing credit) and with Michèle Mercier. #SpaghettiSunday
A Jehovah's Witness and a preacher, both pacifists, find themselves in the unlikely position of being hired guns to protect a town from bank robbers in Pistol for 100 Coffins (1968) from the great Umberto Lenzi. With a cool side plot about an asylum break-out. #SpaghettiSunday
Day of Anger (1967) Tired of being the town whipping boy, a shit-sweeper hitches his wagon to an ambitious gunslinger who was passing through, learns the tricks of the trade, and returns a changed man. With Giuliano Gemma and Lee Van Cleef, from the director of My Dear Killer. #SpaghettiSunday
