Sergio Corbucci made some of the
finest B genre revenge spaghetti westerns and along with ‘Django’, this is my
second Corbucci film which I enjoyed even better than the first one. It’s quite
early to say watching just two of Corbucci films but I must say this is perhaps
the best of Corbucci! The film stars Jean-Louis Trintignanat as silent stranger
who is the fastest gun with a personal vendetta. He is hired hand to avenge
justice by a young widow in the godforsaken land of outlaws, bandits and bounty
hunters running on killing spree. The other man to watch is cunning and sadistic
evil bounty hunter named Loco played brilliantly by Klaus Kinski.
Quite rare and unusual to
western, the setting of the film is snow-clad frozen west land called Snow
hill. Ennio Morricone’s haunting distinctive score, Trintignant’s muteness,
Kinski’s ruthless evil company, enough action and killings and above all that tension
filled cold blooded mayhem and massacre in the climax leading to shocking end…it
all works damn well on screen and treat for any western fans. Quentin Tarantino
rated it as one of his personal favorite western too.
Highly recommended to all western
fans.
Ratings-8/10
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