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Una nuvola di polvere... un grido di morte... arriva Sartana (1970)
What the...Did I just see a mechanical tiki lighter in a horse barn?
I didn't come in to this flick in the beginning. I came in somewhere's near the middle, the main character walking into a bar with a plinky plink piano playing...at various tempos...and a cut scene to him playing A PIPE ORGAN, in a horse barn. (yes, you read that right) A sub character, comes in from the back and eventually shows his little mech project (with a goofy name of course)- a badly stylized "tiki" head that rolls, stops, flips its lid and lights a lighter inside...My suspended disbelief was also suspended.
Thanks, Sony for broadcasting barrel scrapers like this.
I would call this more of a peyote western.
No Down Payment (1957)
It's deja vu all over again
Bless the TMC Channel for making the older GOOD films available for my random viewing pleasure.
Spot-on social commentary. This film is has so many parallels to today's issues: -alcoholism thinly disguised as social drinking -racism -war veterans -overextending yourself by credit to live a life you cannot afford and the stress that puts on relationships -domestic violence -"lower middle-class pretending to be upper middle-class -The expectations of a woman's role in society
So frightening that we are STILL grappling with theses issues with very little progress. The progress for civil rights has been rolled back almost to this time period.
The Wind (1986)
a not so mighty wind
I picked this one up because the music was done by Hans Zimmer, a customer of Metasonix modular synths (made by someone dear to me). The jacket art says "the 2003 version".
I give it one point for a strong female, one point for cheezy dialog and one last point for meg foster's light blue eyes, of which there are plenty of shots of.
It was fun seeing David MacCullum casually swimming (the pool has a plexiglass viewing window!), while his lady love was being chased by a psycho in Greece.
The sets were marginally impressive-that is, rich people's houses in L.A. and Mendanassos (sp?), where the castle was. I found myself wondering how they were able to keep up the cleaning with all the dust blowing around. The wind wasn't fierce enough to be believable to me. I kept thinking that the animal pelts on the furniture must be nasty...etc. and realized that the film must be pretty boring if i am wondering these things when the supposed plot was unfolding. I stumbled over things like why did she light a fire, blow out the match, then throw the match into the fire?! Dumb stuff like that. It was clunky at best. Oh well. Robert Morely got to have a bit of fun with his kooky geezer character and a nice vacation out of it.
Il boia scarlatto (1965)
well aged cheez
I'm a bit odd in that I find enjoyment sifting the wheat from the chaff in life...If you are like me and have a penchant for cheezy B's -especially horror- then you will giggle with delight over this one. I just picked this one up at K-Mart, in the $5 bin. A find like this makes the last 5 sucky ones seem almost worth it. It works for me, mmkay.
The soundtrack is awesome and suits the action. The dialog has some sparkling moments, and the castle is pretty cool. What kind of car is that in the beginning? the light blue one... All modern girls should do their eyeliner like these chicks. Mickey Hargity went to the Frank Gorsham school of Villain-Acting, and I mean that in the nicest way.