Showing posts with label Ferdinando Baldi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ferdinando Baldi. Show all posts

11.8.13

crazy westerners (1967)

aka Little Rita nel West. Rita of the West.
"Is that supposed to be frontier humour?"
Little Rita (Rita Pavone) is a gunfighter, better than any man, who dreams of a better world, a world without the greed for gold. So with her friend Chief Silly Bison (Gordon Mitchell) and Gratz (Lucio Dalla) she sets about gathering all the gold she can get her hands on. Having confronted Ringo and Django the Mexican bandit Sancho (Fernando Sancho) captures her. Rita is then rescued by Black Stan (Terence Hill), but what is his motive?
Enthusiastic spoof, full of song and dance numbers, that cannot fail to raise a smile, as long as you don't take it as a straight up western.

26.11.12

viva django (1968)

aka Preparati la bara! Django Sees Red. Django, Prepare a Coffin. Get the Coffin Ready.
"I've only one thing left, hate."
Django (Terence Hill) is left for dead when a gold shipment he is guarding is ambushed. Whilst plotting his revenge he comes up with a novel way of recruiting a gang of his own. He becomes a hangman, saving innocent men, and sets them against the gang that tried to kill him. Unfortunately, whilst saving the wife of one of his men, the husband decides he would rather keep some of the gold for himself...
whilst not a patch on the original Django, this still trots along nicely, with enough variants and twists to keep the viewer happy.

22.7.09

blindman (1971)

aka Il cieco. Il pistolero cieco.
A blind gunman (Tony Anthony) has been double crossed. He was given the job of escorting fifty mail order brides to a mine, where their husbands to be are waiting. But his partner decided to sell them to the Mexican bandit Domingo instead. Once Blindman finds out what has happened and has dealt with his by now very ex partner, he tracks Domingo down and asks for them back, but Domingo is disinclined to do so. After all, what can a blindman do?
This is a spaghetti western version of the Japanese Zatoichi character, and once you get over the inherent daftness of a blind gunman it plays out rather well, if in a surreal and incoherent way.
Watch out for a guest starring role from Ringo Starr (who is surprisingly good).