Barquero (1970)

[Scott]

If your a Lee Van Cleef fan then you may like BARQUERO (1970). The film starts out with an small army of bandits killing everyone in town. It's quite brutal and I'm surprised I've never heard of it before. Van Cleef plays a ferry operator/owner in the next town and the bandits must use his boat to get their plunder to Mexico. Van Cleef with the help of a crazy mountain man and a some towns people take on the bandits in this better than average western. The crazy mountaim man is well played by Forest Tucker. If you like westerns then you'll like BARQUERO.

My "to view" list below is based on available rentals to view in the future:

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Sons of Katie Elders
McCabe and Mrs Miller
Andrei Rublyov (1969)
Navajo Joe (Western)
Little Big Man (Western)
Cable Hogue (Western)
Mountain Men (Western)
Purgatory (Western)
Yojimbo (Kurasawa)
Kugemesha (Kurasawa)
Vamp (Grace Jones)
Birth of a Nation (Film History)
John Wayne Films
Puppet Master III & IV
Jason Goes to Hell
Phantasm III (and maybe part II, kinda forgot how that goes)
Lepracaun II & III

Searching For These:

A Bullitt for the General
Companeros
Keoma
The Great Silence
Fist Full of Lead
Texas, Adios
Four of the Apocalypes
El Topo
The Holy Mountain
The Man in the White Suit
On The Beach

[BoyScoutKevin]

Seen it. Not as fond of it as Scott, but, there is an interesting role reversal in this one. Lee Van Cleef, who usually plays the villain in westerns, is the hero in this one, and Kerwin Mathews, who usually plays the hero, especially in fantasy films, is one of the villains. Enjoy the film.