“Ford has John Wayne, Leone has
Clint Eastwood, I have Franco Nero.”
Sergio Corbucci is cult and one
of the most influential figures of Italian spaghetti western genre. After his
grand success of ‘Django’ his teaming up with Franco Nero gave some of the most
entertaining spaghetti western to watch without fail for all die hard fans of
this genre. His western has everything on platter that we expect from genre-
brilliant extreme wide shots, spectacle of blazing gun action witch stylish
macho in search of bounty and climax with gun duel. But than he brings
something extra too- machine gun instead of Winchester guns in western (Django),
psychopathic villain & mute western hero (The Great Silence) and here a
political edge stuffed in routine formula.
Sergei Kowalsky is gringo to rely
for ambitious Mexican named Paco and his bunch of bounty hunters. He hired
Sergei in his ambitious quest for revolution. With his company the amigos keep
on robbing banks, trains, army but the gringo is too demanding man. Not the
best Ennio Morricone’s score but love that particular whistling sound with
Nero’s appearance. Compared to Leone, Corbucci’s spaghetti westerns tried to
push the action and violence with modern ammunition whether its machinegun,
tanks or an airplane dropping bombs; quite hard to imagine in western genre
before. The climax here is just compelling powerhouse till the last frame.
Surely an essential spaghetti
western from the man who gave us ‘Django’ & ‘The Great Silence’.
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