Just caught this film on FLIX today. You all have to see this spegetti western. The main character played by James Colburn get shot about 3-4 times and has a 10 minute death scene and I'm not exagerating. During the scene I could have swore he was dead about 5 times, but he would just kinda open his eyes again everytime to talk to his friend, until finally he gets blown up.
The films is about acouple of revolutionaries fighting the Mexican army. The movie has this soft gentle modern tune with a female voice singing "shum shum" while people are being executed and while other massacres are taking place. It really brings the film into the mystical realm.
This is the type of film I could watch over and over again.
It's not the best of Leone's Westerns, but it is a favorite of mine. I want a DVD of the full uncut version rarely seen in America.
Besides it has one of my all time favorite movie lines: "If you shoot me, I'll fall. If I fall, they'll have to alter all the maps."
I remember some scenes of it, because I watched it once as a kid. I tried to watch it again a couple of years ago but couldn't get through the first 15 minutes. It was so slow and over the top that it really annoyed me. I have to watch it again with more patience, this one and "Once upon a time in the West".