Saturday, August 21, 2010

Spaghetti Western Sub-Genres




Within the Spaghetti Western genre (which is itself a sub-genre) there are sub-genres. Bounty Hunter - Lone anti-hero faces bad guys. Zapata - Mexican revolution storyline. Revenge - Highly motivated main character pursues wrong-doer.

Friday, August 6, 2010

Blind Man



I really like this film. It is a cool idea, and a very well done Spaghetti Western. It is about a blind, but deadly, gunman, who is hired to escort fifty mail order brides to their new husbands (some guys in a mining camp). His business partners double cross him, selling the women to a bandit named Domingo. So the blind man heads into Mexico to get the women back and complete the job he was hired to do.

Tony Anthony as the blind gunman is one of the most memorable characters of all! He is so cool. There are touches of humor and satire here and there, and Ringo Starr is in there too!

Awesome flick!!

My Spaghetti Western Collection





I am once again in a Spaghetti Western mood. I really do enjoy these things! I also enjoy collecting them. Here is a complete list of my Spaghetti westerns to date. Note: this list will change. Anyway, here it is as of now... 32 Caliber Killer $10,000 Blood Money ($10,000 For A Massacre) $10,000 For A Massacre A Bullet For A Stranger (aka they call him graveyard, cemetery, etc.) A Bullet For Sandoval A Bullet For The General A Fistful of Dollars A Genius Two Partners and A Dupe A Long Ride From Hell A Man called Django / W Django A Man Called Sledge A Minute To Pray, A Second To Die A Pistol For 100 Coffins A Pistol For Ringo A Reason To Live, A Reason To Die (Massacre at Fort Holman) A Sky Full of Stars For A Roof A Stranger In Town A Town Called Hell Ace High Adios Gringo Adios Sabata (Indio Black) And God Said To Cain Any Gun Can Play Apache Blood Apocalypse Joe Bandidos Ben & Charlie Between God, The Devil, and a Winchester Beyond The Law Black Jack Black Killer Blind Man Blood At Sundown Blood For A Silver Dollar Blood Money ("The Stranger and the Gunfighter") Boot Hill Cain's Cutthroats Cemetery Without Crosses (aka Rope and the Colt) Charge! (aka Those Dirty Dogs) China 9, Libert 37 Cjamango CompaƱeros Cowards Don't Pray (Taste of Vengeance) Cut-Throats 9 Day of Anger Dead For A Dollar Dead Men Ride Deaf Smith and Johnny Ears Death Rides a Horse Death Sentence Deep West (aka Heads I Kill You, Tails You're Dead! They Call Me Hallelujah) Django Django and Sartana's Showdown In The West Django Kill: If You Live, Shoot Django Shoots First Django! The Last Killer Django Vs. Sartana Don't Turn The Other Cheek (a.k.a. Long Live Your Death) Duck You Sucker Dynamite Jim Face To Face Find A Place To Die Fistful of Lead Five Man Army For A Few Dollars More Forgotten Pistolero Fort Yuma Gold Four For The Apocalypse (aka Four of the Apocalypse) Four of the Apocolypse Full House For The Devil Garringo God's Gun God Forgives, I Don't Gunfight at Red Sands Hands Up Dead Man Hate For Hate Have A Good Funeral My Friend, Sartana Will Pay Hellbenders His Name Was Holy Ghost His Name Was King I Am Sartana I Am Sartana, Trade Your Guns For A Coffin If You Meet Sartana, Pray For Your Death In A Colt's Shadow It Can Be Done, Amigo I Want Him Dead Jesse/Lester ("Two Brothers in Trinity") Johnny Hamlet Johnny Yuma Jonathan of the Bears - italian language only Keoma Kill Them All, And Come Back Alone Light The Fuse, Sartana Is Coming Lone and Angry Man Long days of Vengeance Machine Gun Killers (Gatling Gun) Man From Nowhere (Arizona Colt) Manneja Massacre at Grand Canyon Massacre Time Minnesota Clay My Name is Nobody My Name Is Pecos Navajo Joe No Room To Die Once Upon A Time In The West One Dollar Too Many One Man and A Colt One Silver Dollar (Blood for a Silver Dollar) Red Blood, Yellow Gold Resquiescant Return of Shanghai Joe Return of Sabata Revenge Of The Resurrected Revenge of Trinity Ringo: Face of Revenge Rope and the Colt (aka Cemetery Without Crosses) Run Man Run Sabata Sartana In The Valley Of Death Sartana: Angel Of Death Savage Guns Seven Dollars on the Red Shanghai Joe (aka Fighting Fists of... & My Name is...) Shoot The Living, Pray for The Dead Shoot Gringo Shoot Sugar Colt Sundance and the Kid Te Deum Tepepa Texas Adios The Beast The Big Gundown The Bounty Killer (The Ugly Ones) The Dirty Outlaws The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly The Grand Duel The Great Silence The Hills Run Red The Mercenary / A Professional Gun The Moment To Kill The Price of Death The Price of Power The Proud and the Damned The Return of Ringo The Reward's Yours, The Man's Mine (El Puro) The Ruthless Four The Specialist (Subtitled) The Stranger's Gundown There's A Noose Waiting For You, Trinity (return of Clint The Stranger) They Call Him Graveyard (Cemetery) aka A Bullet For A Stranger They Call Me Halleluja (aka Deep West) They Call Me Trinity This Man Can't Die Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die Trinity and Bambino Trinity and Sartana Trinity Goes East Trinity is Still My Name Twice a Judas Vengeance Viva Django Wanted Water Hole #3 White Comanche Yankee 168 and counting... [updated 12/26/11]