An Italian spaghetti western directed by Guiseppe Colizzi, starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer.
Gunfighters, brawlers and gamblers clash while a circus is in town. Something about a deed to a mining claim.
This was totally incoherent. I usually like Terence Hill and Bud Spencer films, but this one was so poorly made as to destroy it's own plot. The camera-work was the worst part because everything was shot in extreme close-up and literally all of the film was underexposed. It is hard to convey a story using only single characters peering out of inky and nebulous blackness. The audio was a little better than the video, but still far from good. This is definitely in the running for "Worst Film Ever Made". I rate it shit.
A Spanish Italian French spaghetti western directed by Maurizio Lucidi, starring Bud Spencer.
A lone cowboy is being chased by a man who claims that the cowboy impregnated his sister. A lawyer and his nephew are nearby and the lawyer is shot, leaving the young nephew in the care of the first cowboy. The cowboy finds that the child owns a ranch and has a wad of cash. They go to the town where the ranch is and are not welcomed. People try to buy the ranch from the boy and cowboy because they know what the main characters do not.
The complex plot was not clearly communicated. Part of this was because the pacing was too slow. The other part is because the editing and camera angles were weird and didn't make sense. What looked like a scene change would only be a change of camera angles. The continuity was extremely choppy because of this.The video was poor quality, with overexposed lights and underexposed darks. The audio was harsh and annoying. Despite the poor production quality, it still maintained the style of a classic spaghetti western. Bud Spencer is a classic actor of this genre and The other actors did an alright job as well. All of the main characters were easily differentiated and relatively memorable. This is one of those movies that I think should have been better than it is. They had the right people and style, but poor production and murky communication spoiled it. I rate this poor.
Westerns directed by E. B. Clucher and Enzo Barboni, starring Terrence Hill and Bud Spencer.
A filthy cowboy roams the wild west doing good deeds with his brother, an ex horse thief.
The films are called They Call Me Trinity and Trinity is Still My Name. They star "Nobody" from My Name is Nobody, so I thought they would be as good as that masterpiece. Unfortunately, they weren't directed by Sergio Leone. The main characters are really good, but the plots are not so great. The style is classic spaghetti western and the pacing is decent. I'm rating these films adequate.
