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SIX BULLETS ... A ... A PRAYER

Six bullets ... a Revenge ... a prayer (Diamante Lobo)
1976
Italy v Israel
Director: Gianfranco Parolini
Cast: Lee Van Cleef, Jack Palance , Richard Boone, Sybil Danning, Leif Garrett, Rafi Ben Ami, Heinz Bernard, Chin Chin, Ricardo David, Didi Lukov, Zila Carni, Robert Lipton, Cody Palance, Ian Sanders, Pnina Golan, Carolyn Stellar

Screenplay: John Foncesa, Gianfranco Parolini
Photo: Sandro Mancori
Music: Sante Maria Romitelli

Menahem Golan is an Israeli producer, along with his cousin Yoram Globus and after stay in the United States under the tutelage of king Roger Corman b-series, returned home with the intention to develop in him a strong film industry to back the U.S. found the Cannon Group, the company responsible for much of the films of Jean Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris. Among the road projects in their countries of origin include two westerns of dubious quality played by Lee Van Cleef in decline along with a strong and very young Leif Garrett, who by then had become the idol of teenage girls through their participation in series "Three for the Road" (1975), and those who took advantage of the possibilities of the Israeli desert to recreate the old west, this being the first and better of the two (the other be released in Spain under the name of "Bloody Vengeance" directed by TV Joseph Manduka and Jim Brown to accompany the main couple.)

The Clayton, a band of outlaws led by Sam Clayton, after robbing the bank of Crane City, head to Juno City with the intention of robbing a stagecoach next to arrive. They murdered a citizen and only father they will face John. After finishing with him as Johnny, an orphan boy who maintained a special relationship with the priest, to search for the brother of John, a former gunslinger Lewis called refuge in Mexico, in order to finish with the bandits.

This time the Golan-Globus tandem commissioned a regular direction of this subgenre, Gianfranco Parolini (creator of two mythical characters of spaghetti: Sabata, played twice by Lee van Cleef, and Sartana who gave life, mainly, Gianni Garko), I guess to facilitate the marketing of the product by passing it through the U.S., I use the pseudonym of Frank Kramer. The result of their work, far from that obtained in other spaghetti, it is quite common and does not exceed that of any TV movie of the time, highlighting just the idea (I guess you look) that what we are seeing is not real but a representation (as well as the images of the principle as the end appear framed in a puppet theater) and the long sequence that ends with Lewis the gunmen do not use the guns and that gives Parolini supernatural and fantastic aesthetics (the use of fog but not knowing where it goes, image distortion, use of twisted frames, etc), but from the narrative point of view that scene does not make much sense (you do not quite understand why a gunman Johnny decides to help and avenge his brother without using their tools).

If the address is vulgar, Parolini the script work with John Fonseca (writer I have no references) is nonsense from the initial premise (the kid looking in Mexico at the Lewis and clear, as the country is small finding it upon arrival), to the speech disorder in which Johnny gets miraculously recovered in the end, to the turn in the script in relation to the true parent of the child. Moreover, as history did not allow for much more, both are invented several scenes that do not contribute to plot development, especially on a long flashback to the past Lewis.

The soundtrack composed by Sante Maria Romitelli main theme has a passable, though the rest weakens much, especially one that is repeated constantly and it became unbearable, with a whistle followed by a touch guitar.

As for the acting cast is headed, as would subsequent "Bloody Vengeance" (1977), by American actors. First, we are doubly, as the father and his twin brother John Lewis, with Lee Van Cleef as interpretation, but not bad far from those carried out in its heyday (the two with Sergio Leone spaghetti, "The day of wrath," "Man to man" or "The Flame and the prey" ) plus wear a wig really ridiculous. Jack Palance, one of the greatest bad that in this sub-genre gave us a couple of unforgettable characters under the direction of Sergio Corbucci is really overacting in the role of Sam Clayton, the head of the bandits. Richard Boone, another great side of Hollywood (" The lawless prairie," "The Alamo," "Rio Conchos" ) merely provides the physical the cowardly sheriff of Juno, a character who disappears after half an hour and not appear again until the final cut-scene. Leif Garrett, as unbearable as the usual, gives life to Johnny and the Austrian Sybil Danning plays Johnny's mother Jenny, a character who keeps a terrible secret regarding the true father of her son, secret to be revealed through another unnecessary flashback.

As curious comment that the ill-fated son of Jack Palance, Cody Palance, plays in the film Zeke Clayton, one of his nephews.

As for the DVD sold by Wild West, and as often the case with the products of this company has poor quality, does not respect the original format, the image appears in a video obtained in poor condition and in many scenes the picture and sound are out of sync. A new joke for fans of this subgenre. As for the extras, put back the same documentary, a series of trailers for spaghetti with image burn and the usual chips Filmography and technical and artistic.

Definitely a late spaghetti clearly shows the decline of this sub-genre and one of its icons, the great Lee Van Cleef. So I think it is only recommended for fans of actor or hardcore subgenre


SCORE:

HISTORY: 2
AMBIENTE: 3
ADDRESS: 3
ACTORS: 4
MUSIC: 4

MEDIA: 3.2

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REVENGE DEATH OF A PRESIDENT

Death of a President (Il prezzo of potere )
1969
Italy / Spain
Director: Tonino Valerri
Cast: Giuliano Gemma , Fernando Rey, Van Johnson, Warren Vanders, Antonio Casas , Benito Stefanelli, Frank Brana, Jose Calvo , Angel Alvarez, Maria Jesus Cuadra, Ray Saunders, Jose Suarez, Manuel Zarzo , Mike Harvey, Julio Pena, Lorenzo Robledo, Massimo Carocci, Angel Well, Norma Jordan, Franco Meroni, Luis Rico Pelaez, Maria Luisa Sala, Francisco Sanz, Ralph Neville, Lisa Iglesias, Joaquin Parra, Jose Canalejas , Riccardo Pizzuti, Carlos Bravo
Screenplay: Massimo Patrizi, Ernesto Gastaldi
Photography: Stelvio Massi
Music: Luis Enríquez Bacalov

Valerri Tonino, for me one of the best and, along with Sergio Sollima, directors finest spaghetti western, with a brief but very original films in this subgenre. So, after first and more impersonal raid "bounty hunter" (1966), in which still cherishes the strong influence of his master Sergio Leone with whom he collaborated on "A Fistful of Dollars" and "Death had a price ", made a handful of films that are characterized by their originality: " The day of wrath " (1967), great depth film with an unusual moral and character development is a major the peaks of spaghetti; "A reason for living and another to die" , a kind of adaptation of "Dirty Dozen" to the world of western but lacking the heroic vision of that and which highlights the slow pace with which it is told until the explosive finale, and "My name is none" (1973 ) made and, from what I read, co-directed by his teacher Leone which involved the death certificate not only overcome by the classic western spaghetti, but it concluded by the current comic arising from the success of "I called Trinidad ".

This Italian-English co-production in 1969 and based on the actual murder of President James Garfield in 1881, transferred, for me, quite rightly, the world's spaghetti western The Assassination of John F. Kennedy happened in Dallas in 1963, whose shock was not even spare the world in the year of completion of the film. So we have a sort of western fiction policy denouncing political corruption, the sewers of the state and the control of the press by the economic power with the intention to create currents of opinion favorable to their interests and reflects on the reason of state as the supreme good above the individual and the danger posed by the knowledge of the truth. Therefore, it is the western most politicized by Valerrii I think is a background of a series of American films popular in the seventies, with which entroncaría, whose central theme was the political conspiracy: "Executive Action" (1973), "The Last Witness" (1974) or "Three Days of the Condor" (1975).





Civil War has ended. To try to heal the wounds, the U.S. President James Garfield decides to move to Dallas to explain to the reluctant inhabitants of the state of Texas the outlines of his political views, continuous of Abraham Lincoln. But both his attempts to end racial discrimination and to impose a greater redistribution of wealth through a fairer tax policy clash with the reactionary mentality and immobility of the notables of the state (governor, large landowners, bankers, etc) planning to kill him.


Valerii to put up the project had a budget higher than average in these products by Bianco Manini, responsible for the extraordinary "I am the revolution" , and with the collaboration of his usual screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi and Massimo Patrizi, who wrote a script spaghetti making this complaint in a movie and while respecting the tenets of this subgenre. Thus we find a very entertaining movie, despite the few flaws that later comment, in which the scenes are perfectly combined reflexive: president's speech, talks with dialogues between the protagonists in that slide a bit naive about messages ( "A gun can not kill an idea", "We want justice and equal rights but we hope that someone would serve them on a silver platter" ) with the few but great action scenes (especially the confrontation the pass).


Work in the direction of Valerii is brighter and closer to classical than to European models, except for some awards as the repetitive use in certain scenes of the zoom. We're going to find exquisite camera work, framing and abundant beautiful long shots that I love, plus filming with great success shooting scenes.


Other highlights include: the Stelvio Massi great work as a cinematographer, the great atmosphere and superb soundtrack composed by Luis Bacalov with a large and melancholy theme that begins with the predominant sound of a harmonious and gradually to incorporate the various orchestral instruments, in addition to good incidental issues, especially one of more rhythmic and classical inspiration, well used and enhance the action.





As actors, we note that the absolute star is Giuliano Gemma, who offers another good performance as Bill Willer, a young man who will be involved in the conspiracy to assassinate the president and who saved a first attack. As happened to Mary Scott "The day of wrath" , is a character who suffers a major change in this case will be an idealistic young man capable of dealing with their neighbors and even his father to defend the ideals Civil War, to end up giving in their attempt to uncover the whole truth about assassination of the president and the people around him, assuming it could be very damaging to the future of the nation, beating, so, state the reason for the truth. Next to him a group of veterans side were a luxury for the films involved and, as it used to be common, embroider their roles: Fernando Rey as the treacherous banker Pinkerton, a symbol of the great and corrupt capitalists used in their interests to political power and the press, Jose Calvo as drunk but lucid and honest doctor who attend to the president after the attack, Antonio Casas in the role of the hapless and unsuspecting father Bill, and Joseph Smith in the role of Vice , which the great men of Dallas blackmailed by his past and try to keep alive the memory of the slain president, in a clear allusion to Lyndon B. Johnson, also born in Texas, with a somewhat murky political past (he was elected as a senator after a vote a little irregular), and a continuation of the great social and economic reforms Kennedy after his death. Also the film has good performances Manolo Zarzo, not too much known actor, who plays the idealistic young journalist who becomes the great support from Bill, Benito Steffanelli in the role of the corrupt sheriff, the truth is I do not understand how this actor did not have much projection in this genre, and Ray Saunders as Lee Harvey Oswald on duty, that is the scapegoat. The cast is completed with special guest Van Johnson, already in decline, a star of Hollywood during the forties and fifties, while maintaining its contract with Metro Goldwyn Mayer powerful ( "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" (1944), "Sublime decision" (1948), "The Caine Mutiny " (1954), " The Last Time I Saw Paris " (1954), " A 23 steps of Baker Street " (1956), etc.) that this time President Garfield plays the well-intentioned, and normal faces this subgenre: Ángel del Pozo, Frank Brana, Lorenzo Robledo, José Canalejas, Paco Sanz.

emphasize on the negative aspects include:


"Some scenes seem a filler, such as the black singer in the lounge or the very" spaghettera "and dramatic clash dark and with a cigar between Bill and the sheriff, narratively, it makes no sense.


"The little big city feeling that gives the city of Dallas, as it resembles a small village (I think it would have taken more houses and, above all, many more extras for the scene of the attack).


-Speech and forced too naive to reinforce the parallel between Garfield and Kennedy, the president. Even pronounce a sentence, "I dream of how it could be and say why not" could have signed the infamous assassinated U.S. president.


These are minor faults which, for me, prevent the group considers the best spaghetti.
Through a friend lent me, I've been enjoying the copy put on sale by Filmax, which for once has good sound and picture.
Ultimately I think this is a great, original and unusual spaghetti that perfectly combines two genres in principle very different as are the western and the political thriller and is, as was usual with him, brilliantly directed by Tonino Valerii.

SCORE:

HISTORY: 8

AMBIENTE: 7
ADDRESS: 8
ACTORS: 8
MUSIC: 8

MEDIA: 7.8

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Book: The Spanish of western

Published by Editorial Diciembre/2010 Red Circle. Book

interview format.

Throughout its 400 pages, the author, Juan Gabriel García ( "The Bean, a Almeria life cinema-2007 "," Yellow, the player I wanted to be actor-2008 "), takes us back to the years in which hundreds were shot Almeria eurowesterns.

is wonderful to watch as, over time, we have not mutated in Castilian published almost nothing about the spaghetti to have plenty of books on the subject. That probably enabled the author of "The English in the western" decided to get out a bit from normal, and raise a series of interviews with actors, directors, producers and other actors in those years.

Thus, among others, we know something more about the life of Eduardo Fajardo, the recently deceased Aldo Sambrell or Simon Andreu, some of those faces we see on the spaghetti.

Or know in the words of Joaquin Luis Romero Marchent the difficulties of shooting in those days. O

know everything from the standpoint of a producer and José Frade.

But apart from these big names, film cameras behind a host of workers who rarely come to know almost nothing.

Fortunately, thanks to the work of Gabriel Garcia, we see more of this unknown world for the viewer, a world that hides things good, some bad, but above all, lots of love to the movies.

With a foreword by director Enzo G. Castellari, "The English of the western" is in short an entertaining book of interviews, a formidable tool to get closer to those golden years of English cinema, and a must for any lover of spaghetti western.