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Outlaw Film Productions

Outlaw
1964
Spain
Director: Leon Klimovsky
Cast: George Martin , Jack Taylor, Junya Brunell, Tomas Blanco, Luis Induni , Esther Grant, Sambrell Aldo Alberto Dalba, Tota Alba, Simon Arriaga, Jose Canalejas Margot Cottens, Claudio Denis, Gaspar 'Indio' González, Henri Macedo, Henry Nunez, Lorenzo Robledo, Jose Luis Zald.
Roadmap : Angel del Castillo, SG Monner, Bob Sirens
Photography : Manuel Hernández Sanjuán
Music: Daniel White

Film produced by a small English company (Carthago Film Cooperative) in 1964 (some sources date back to 1963) led by Leon Klimovsky, a dentist with a passion for Argentine cinema, having shot several films in his country, he emigrated to Spain where a successful career development more characterized by the variety and quantity of films filmed (over sixty in twenty years) that by its quality. So shoot, so tireless, dramas ( "Peace never begin ', 1960), comedy (" Torrejón City " also 1960), musicals ( Scale in Tenerife from 1962 to the glory of the Dynamic Duo), war (" June 1944: landed in Normandy "or 1968" Do not mind dying "filmed the following year, both in co-production status and liability of " Dirty Dozen ") and westerns (" A man came to kill ' 1967, "Reverend Colt" and "One dollar for Sartana" both 1971), with special emphasis on gender fantaterrror and suspense during the seventies, thanks largely to their collaboration with Paul Naschy ("Night of Walpurgis " Waldemar Daninsky fourth film, " Rise of the dead "the giallo" A dead dragonfly for each "," Hell quarterback "of a character very dear to Paul Naschy had already appeared in " The fear comes from the grave " "The saga of Dracula or" The Night of the vampire orgy " the latter two without Naschy).


Billy Carter lives with his parents raising cattle on a ranch in the town of Colver, but soon his interests clash with those of farmers, supporters of open spaces, led by Price. In the assault on his ranch by Price's men while he was away, his father is killed and Billy swear revenge on who killed him and burned the ranch.


typical western preleoniano using a real character well known to fans of the genre, although the historical accuracy of your life is zero, to encourage the marketing of the film. In this case we chose the figure of William Bonney, alias Billy the Kid (the movie in English is called precisely Billy the Kid), a young gunman who was involved in the famous Lincoln County War in the murder of his patron, John Tunstall, ended up being shot by an old friend, Sheriff Pat Garrett, whose life has been more or less success and rigor, the film on numerous occasions: "Billy the Kid" (1941) by David Miller Robert Taylor, "El Zurdo" (1958) by Arthur Penn with Paul Newman, " Chisum" (1970) focused on the Lincoln County War with John Wayne and Chisum, "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" (1973) by Sam Pekinpah with Kris Kristofferson, "Young Guns" (1988) and even within the spaghetti "The man who killed Billy the Kid's July Buchs Peter Lee Lawrence.


We are facing another western Mediterranean slavishly imitating the issues and arguments of American westerns, made acceptable because of the host that had already taken some Western movies filmed in Spain, but with means that seem significantly lower than those of the latter, so the result is lower.

addition to the problem of lack of means, the film has a script in a confusing mix different themes developed in no time: the confrontation between supporters of the fences and the spaces free love story, Romeo and Juliet, between the protagonist and the sister of his greatest enemy, the latent racism in the southern population of the U.S., corruption among law enforcers to be of service the powerful, the confrontation between civil and military power and, above all, the interior drama of the protagonist and his desire for revenge, to opt for the typical scenes thrust to one side to another are endless and the equally typical fights, made with a shoehorn, which stretches over. Moreover, the dialogues are flojísimos and proliferate naive or implausible sequences as one in which Jack Blak, Hector Price, Carter after killing him to his ranch, deposits it in and, not content with this, set fire to the house and all this without anyone hears or sees it, one in which Billy, pursued by men of Price and the army, is hiding in a cabin that is better known than the saloon of the village and, of course, there happens worldwide or as simple as you discover the true identity of the murderer. And all this in the service a false story which seeks to explain the reasons which led to Billy, who did not even has its original name, to become an outlaw, and the army captain will go to the end of the movie the corrupt sheriff and Price in these terms: "Billy the Kid, riding to a new destination. Might be a good man but you have become a lawless " (hence the name of the movie.)

With respect to the direction of Klimovsky has seemed ill-advised, hasty, labored and rather sloppy, the film also contain serious errors of raccord (at the scene of the fire of the ranch first is dark, then dawn to see, then return to be at night). Only in some isolated sequence, as the successful Billy's father's funeral, is seen by the director is some concern about the composition.

Regarding the soundtrack, its authorship corresponds to Daniel White Scottish-born musician has wrongly been confused on occasion with Jesus Franco. It features two songs sung, the first and foremost to listen to the credits of a typical sound when sung by a big band crooner Dean Martin to him and I thought totally inappropriate, while the latter fits better with the scene where it appears (the aforementioned burial); also heard two or three items incidental to the clear influence of jazz that are not appropriate for western and are dramatically poorly utilized; Thus, for example a theme with drums and guitar based jazz is heard while being pursued Billy.

As actors, we tried to pass by the producer to the three protagonists as Americans, although George Martin, Francisco Martinez Celeiro actually, was a former gymnast who saved English miracle of life by not taking 1959, the plane that killed the gymnastics team led by European champion Joaquín Blume. In this second foray into the western Mediterranean with its obvious limitations plays Billy, in which the film portrays us as an obedient boy formal worker and dragged into a life of crime by the circumstances. Billy as the main antagonist is Jack Black a violent, impulsive and racist gunman capable of killing a unarmed black and knees, true to his name, wears a black and gives life so unconvincing in his first foray in this subgenus Jack Taylor, an American actor who developed virtually all of his career in Europe and become indispensable for a face fantaterror made in Spain. Alongside them some western Mediterranean usual faces who do a little more bearable soporific film: Luis Induni more credible than usual as Price, Aldo Sambrell leaving, for once, your typical villain roles to play in this movie the sheriff, even a corrupt and assistant Lorenzo Robledo as the previous. Also there an acceptable swarm Thomas White giving life to the unfortunate father of Billy, a blank Juny Brunell as Helen Price and, for me, unbearable Margot Cottens on the role of women in Price.

In short, film flojísimo, to the exasperation slow, very boring and made an alarming scarcity of resources I think is difficult to meet even the most fans of this subgenre.


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

MEDIA: 2.4