Italy
1967
Director: Alfonso Brescia
Screenplay: Palli Gicca
Photography: Fulvio Testi
Music: Robby Poitevin
Silver , who likes to be called Mr. Silver is a very peculiar gunman characterized by his dandyism and his good manners. After freeing some Mexicans of his oppressive employer, will be hired by the forces of a people in order to find out who is behind a series of robberies at the measures, as well as the murder of the passengers in the last assault.
the 1967 Italian production, ie at the height of spaghetti, directed by Alfonso Brescia under the pseudonym Al Bradley (like the director most of the participants in the film are American names to facilitate the distribution of western), an SUV that began in the peplum and continued with the spaghetti, a giallo, poliziescos, fantasy and science fiction, comedy, etc., and in this case try, for me, so failed to combine the typical detective film with the western.
for which it received from a script by Lorenzo Gica Palli (writer resume as a writer and director, in 1972 the character of Silver in the lower "Deadly Pursuit" , this time played by Gianni Garko ) that develops the story in a jumbled, progression-free and with a succession of scenes in which events occur for free (the protagonist from the first moment the identity of two of the assailants because yes, the deputy sheriff accused of conquistador hardly know ...), cheesy and ridiculous (like the scene where it's love between the protagonist and Sara, the daughter of slain book, which is solved with a couple of those Silver usual phrases supposedly deep but actually quite topical: "It's not an idiot, referring to the deputy Judel and Sara's fiance is in love and lovers behave like idiots" "Marry Judel, will make you happy . have the habit of losing battles, eventually you will see that not a bad attribute for a husband ". So if he says ...) or embarrassing (the sequence Sara bank's final beating Judel and saying that he has ruined everything is more like a vaudeville). In addition, there is a vacuous dialogue and quite grotesque, which does not help the horrible dubbing of the film, pretending to be solemn: "Unfortunately I can not shoot a woman. I like too. Then I thank you ".
The address, on the other hand, Alfonso Brescia has seemed routine, except in some isolated and the night scene of the confrontation between Silver and Spot, a fact shown in the typical and topical fights, stuck in the plot with a shoehorn and announce that somehow which would be comical spaghetti scrimmages, which are awkwardly shot. In addition the Director fails to provide the required tension and suspense to a film that much of your footage is like detective movies in this sense is very significant for me the scene of the failed game of cards.
On the positive side, it would indicate basically two
-The soundtrack composed by Robby Poitevin that has a good theme repeated throughout the film and that even the protagonist whistles, which identifies the subject with him. Interestingly, I do not know if it's only in the copy I've seen in a scene you hear the main theme composed by Ennio Morricone for "Guns do not discuss" .
-Silver's character himself, a fine gentleman and bon vivant, who rejects the colt 45 and shoot silver bullets (because of their name) away from the typical anti-heroes of the spaghetti and clear record of two mythical characters of this subgenus: Sabata and, above all, Sartana. It is also of a cowboy-adventurer who works for money but has its own code of honor (at a time says "You man of his word, like me" , later stating: "I play fair, I've always done" and end commenting "Just kill criminals, even if they are, give them a chance" ).
To give life to this character was chosen in me a casting error, Peter Lee Lawrence, actor Alfonso Brescia to collaborate on several occasions, which is not all bad but I think that age is not doing its part, also because I think his physical features did not fit tough-guy roles and experienced. The rest of the cast I recognized Alberto Dell'Acqua, under the pseudonym Kitosch Cole, another actor with features and quite limited childish plays Spot, a quite absurd that aims to learn the craft of Silver. Also appear Mirko Ellis, interpret that before turning to spaghetti had appeared in many peplums, as the sheriff of the population; Andrea Bosic, a certain resemblance to Robert Shaw, as the banker who hires Silver, Helene Chanell under the name Sherrill Morgan, who plays the worldly Dolly the saloon owner, Nello Pazzaffini as Red Carter, the role of Fitch, a character that looks like an excuse to shoot a long sequence of fight in the saloon and Massimo Righi (Max Dean) in Judel paper, the giddy deputy sheriff from the beginning and not knowing why he rowed to Silver (the characteristics of this character would be taken up by Gica Palli in that "Persecution deadly ). All of them are limited to comply clear that their characters are not for more.
Ultimately, for me, a mediocre spaghetti made with a very limited budget, a fact evident in the scarcity of locations (a mine, a village and a cottage), which lacks even a Good shooting and I felt a little heavy.
SCORE:
HISTORY: 3
AMBIENTE: 3
ADDRESS: 4
ACTORS: 5
MUSIC: 6
MEDIA: 4.2
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