Death Rides a Horse (1967)
(Da uomo a uomo)
Country: IT
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 120m
Director: Giulio Petroni
Cast: John Phillip Law, Lee Van Cleef, Anthony Dawson, Luigi Pistilli
Synopsis:
Two men, a young one seeking revenge for his murdered family, and an old timer after the fellow bandits who let him take the fall, leapfrog each other in pursuit of their identical quarry.
Review:
Not unlike For a Few Dollars More in its set-up, as well as in some of its set pieces, this otherwise routine Spaghetti Western is notable for its sardonic look at how you could scrape off the veneer of respectability in a public citizen of the old west and find a criminal underneath. It even extends this political agenda at its climax, as the villagers unite with the good guys to rid their land, Magnificent Seven-style, of the bandidos, but throws it all away by making them expendable for the sake of a more conventional showdown.
(Da uomo a uomo)
Country: IT
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 120m
Director: Giulio Petroni
Cast: John Phillip Law, Lee Van Cleef, Anthony Dawson, Luigi Pistilli
Synopsis:
Two men, a young one seeking revenge for his murdered family, and an old timer after the fellow bandits who let him take the fall, leapfrog each other in pursuit of their identical quarry.
Review:
Not unlike For a Few Dollars More in its set-up, as well as in some of its set pieces, this otherwise routine Spaghetti Western is notable for its sardonic look at how you could scrape off the veneer of respectability in a public citizen of the old west and find a criminal underneath. It even extends this political agenda at its climax, as the villagers unite with the good guys to rid their land, Magnificent Seven-style, of the bandidos, but throws it all away by making them expendable for the sake of a more conventional showdown.
(Da uomo a uomo)
Country: IT
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 120m
Director: Giulio Petroni
Cast: John Phillip Law, Lee Van Cleef, Anthony Dawson, Luigi Pistilli
Synopsis:
Two men, a young one seeking revenge for his murdered family, and an old timer after the fellow bandits who let him take the fall, leapfrog each other in pursuit of their identical quarry.
Review:
Not unlike For a Few Dollars More in its set-up, as well as in some of its set pieces, this otherwise routine Spaghetti Western is notable for its sardonic look at how you could scrape off the veneer of respectability in a public citizen of the old west and find a criminal underneath. It even extends this political agenda at its climax, as the villagers unite with the good guys to rid their land, Magnificent Seven-style, of the bandidos, but throws it all away by making them expendable for the sake of a more conventional showdown.