The Big Gundown (1967)

[Scott]

Encore Western Channel today showed THE BIG GUNDOWN (1967) Starring Lee Van Cleef, Tomas Milian, and directed by Sergio Sollima. Tomas Milian's character is fun and well done. His character is an expert with a knife and the slingshot. There is a german marksman in it as well and he has a gunfight with Van Cleef at the end. Lee Van Cleef is good in all the films I'v seen him in yet.  Very good Speghetti Western. Story is interesting also.

MY FUTURE VIEWINGS - My list below is based on recent purchases and available rentals to view in the future:

Return of Sabata (8pm April 4th on western channel)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Sons of Katie Elders
Andrei Rublyov (1969)
Django Kill (If You Live, Shoot ! )
Mannaja (A Man Called Blade)
Run Man Run
Trinity is Still My Name
Zombie Flesh Eater (Blind Dead III)
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:

El Topo
The Holy Mountain
The Man in the White Suit
On The Beach

[Scott0]

Good lord. You're actually going to try to make it through the second and third Leprachaun?? There is only so much poking fun at oneself in a movie that I can take, and Leprachaun 3 set those standards. Uggh.

Scottie

[Scott]

I'm having a hard time finding Horror films Scott0. Seen a few for $6.99 that might be fun. Netflix has about 100 that I haven't seen. I will be viewing ZOMBIE FLESH EATER (a.k.a. Blind Dead 3) soon and a french horror classic b/w LES DIABOLIQUES (1955) and NOSFERATU (1922). Then again if I could just purchase some films from IMAGE, SOMETHING WEIRD, ANCHOR BAY, and SINISTER VIDEO then I could continue my sci-fi/horror quest.

Right now I'm mowing down the Westerns and the sub-genre of Speghetti Westerns and also the Classics department.

[Chris K.]

Say Scott, THE BIG GUNDOWN is actually followed up by RUN, MAN, RUN (1968), which features Tomas Milian playing the same knife-throwing character  and also directed by Sergio Solima. If you got it on DVD, then you'll enjoy it in it's original 2.35:1 Cromoscope (in Italian with subtitles over the so-so English dub, of course).

But really, you're on a roll with the Speghetti Westerns.

[Scott]

Yea, I've really been enjoying the Speghetti Westerns. They are so different from other Westerns. Not that the other westerns are bad, but I have just liked italian style a bit more.