Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
Stop what you are doing and watch this.Joel Macrae and Virginia Mayo star in a standard western that is lifted out of the rut by sheer star power. I watch this every couple of months. Its brilliant.
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Stop what you are doing and watch this.Joel Macrae and Virginia Mayo star in a standard western that is lifted out of the rut by sheer star power. I watch this every couple of months. Its brilliant.
Stop what you are doing and watch this.Joel Macrae and Virginia Mayo star in a standard western that is lifted out of the rut by sheer star power. I watch this every couple of months. Its brilliant.
not a bad cast, but I preferred the book
Stop what you are doing and watch this.Joel Macrae and Virginia Mayo star in a standard western that is lifted out of the rut by sheer star power. I watch this every couple of months. Its brilliant.
not a bad cast, but I preferred the book
I didnt know there was a book.
Too much dialogue can easily ruin a film in my opinion. ...Spaghetti Westerns, the best ones, have great cinematography, brooding characters, inspiring music ... but no pithy dialogue. Almost no dialogue at all.
Too much dialogue can easily ruin a film in my opinion. ...Spaghetti Westerns, the best ones, have great cinematography, brooding characters, inspiring music ... but no pithy dialogue. Almost no dialogue at all.
Italian film director and father of the spaghetti westerns was a master of letting the scene speak for itself.
The sweat dripping off the villain's face in the hot midday sun. The squeaking windmill slowly turning as the intensity of the scene builds.
One of the three bad guys sent to kill the man who just got off the train says, "Looks like we didn't bring you a horse". And the man replies, "No, you brought two to many horses".
Stop what you are doing and watch this.Joel Macrae and Virginia Mayo star in a standard western that is lifted out of the rut by sheer star power. I watch this every couple of months. Its brilliant.
not a bad cast, but I preferred the book
I didnt know there was a book.
Louis L'amour
has about 100 books out, mostly about the old west
Sacketts were a series he did
I am not a fan either. I find the plots a bit far fetched, particularly when it comes to the fights.Why I don't like Spaghetti Westerns.
What makes a good movie of any genre is dialogue. You can have a good movie with no action but great dialogue. You can have a good movie with a weak plot but great dialogue. You can have a good movie with no soundtrack at all but great dialogue.
Spaghetti Westerns, the best ones, have great cinematography, brooding characters, inspiring music ... but no pithy dialogue. Almost no dialogue at all.