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‘When a man with a .45 meets a man with a rifle’: the stranger (Clint Eastwood) faces Ramon in the finale to 4 Fistful of Dollars (1964).  — eee ee ee ee eS eee eee ee, lUrhr Ol eee LV eee oe eee  Sands, Jolly were hoping for a greater return on their next western ventures.  Jolly and Constantin made another western concurrently with Fistful, called Pistols Don’t Argue (also known as Bullets Don’t Argue) starring 54-year-old Rod Cameron. Cameron starred as Pat Garrett, the Sheriff of Rivertown, who has his wedding day interrupted when Billy and George Clanton rob the local bank. Garrett tracks them to Mexico and most of the film is devoted to the trio’s trek back across the desert (Devils Valley) and their battle with a Mexican bandit gang. Pisto/s was very old- fashioned (the US cavalry ride to Garrett’s rescue at the climax), and with hindsight it seems incredible to think that the producers had a higher regard for this film than Fistful. The only interesting aspects of Pistols were the locations (including the town set, which Leone reused) and Morricone’s score. Without Leone’s visuals to inspire him, the music is average, but does hint at a talent to compose a catchy tune. Pistols has a traditional title song (‘Lonesome Billy’, sung by Peter Tevis), but it introduces the villainous Billy, rather than the hero. Packed with clichés and awful rhymes, the lyrics read: ‘A rough man who plays with danger, to whom trouble was no stranger’. No wonder Leone wanted a lyric-free title theme.
‘When a man with a .45 meets a man with a rifle’: the stranger (Clint Eastwood) faces Ramon in the finale to 4 Fistful of Dollars (1964). — eee ee ee ee eS eee eee ee, lUrhr Ol eee LV eee oe eee Sands, Jolly were hoping for a greater return on their next western ventures. Jolly and Constantin made another western concurrently with Fistful, called Pistols Don’t Argue (also known as Bullets Don’t Argue) starring 54-year-old Rod Cameron. Cameron starred as Pat Garrett, the Sheriff of Rivertown, who has his wedding day interrupted when Billy and George Clanton rob the local bank. Garrett tracks them to Mexico and most of the film is devoted to the trio’s trek back across the desert (Devils Valley) and their battle with a Mexican bandit gang. Pisto/s was very old- fashioned (the US cavalry ride to Garrett’s rescue at the climax), and with hindsight it seems incredible to think that the producers had a higher regard for this film than Fistful. The only interesting aspects of Pistols were the locations (including the town set, which Leone reused) and Morricone’s score. Without Leone’s visuals to inspire him, the music is average, but does hint at a talent to compose a catchy tune. Pistols has a traditional title song (‘Lonesome Billy’, sung by Peter Tevis), but it introduces the villainous Billy, rather than the hero. Packed with clichés and awful rhymes, the lyrics read: ‘A rough man who plays with danger, to whom trouble was no stranger’. No wonder Leone wanted a lyric-free title theme.
Imperialism in action: Franco Nero as Captain Sergei Kowalski (the Polak) in Sergio Corbucci’s Mexican revolution film 4 Professional Gun (1968).  Robert Mitchum sleepwalked though his role as a biplane-flying gringo in Villa Rides, while Yul Brynner looked unusually hairy as Pancho Villa; in one scene he takes a ride in Mitchum’s biplane and doesn’t lose his wig. Bald Telly Savalas played Villa in Pancho Villa (1972), but bypassed the hair problem by having his head shaved in prison in the film’s opening sequence; Savalas also crooned the title song, ‘We'll all end up the same’ (lyrics by Don Black). The film /00 Rifles (1968) was only noteworthy for good performances by Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch, Jim Brown and Aldo Sambrell. In The Five Man Army (1969) Peter Graves embarked on a mission impossible to rob a steel-plated ‘bank on wheels’ (a train), while Leone’s Duck You Sucker (1971 —also called A Fistful of Dynamite) was the most disappointing of all. Rod Steiger’s overbearing performance as Juan, a peasant bandit (who pre- dictably becomes a revolutionary) ruins the film. Only Morricone’s exceptional score (including the mythical nine-minute ‘Inventions for John’) and James Coburn’s appearance as John H. Mallory, a motorcycle-riding IRA dynamiter, make the outing worthwhile. Apart from 4 Professional Gun, only three revolution-set westerns of the era emerged with any dignity: A Bullet for the General, the US western The Professionals (1966 — starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Claudia Cardinale and Jack Palance) and Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (1969). The Wild Bunch featured the best machine-gun shootout of the revolution genre, with its fiery ‘Battle of Bloody Porch’ climax, when the Bunch take on General Mapache’s army in Agua Verde. More blank ammunition (90,000 rounds) was fired during the
Imperialism in action: Franco Nero as Captain Sergei Kowalski (the Polak) in Sergio Corbucci’s Mexican revolution film 4 Professional Gun (1968). Robert Mitchum sleepwalked though his role as a biplane-flying gringo in Villa Rides, while Yul Brynner looked unusually hairy as Pancho Villa; in one scene he takes a ride in Mitchum’s biplane and doesn’t lose his wig. Bald Telly Savalas played Villa in Pancho Villa (1972), but bypassed the hair problem by having his head shaved in prison in the film’s opening sequence; Savalas also crooned the title song, ‘We'll all end up the same’ (lyrics by Don Black). The film /00 Rifles (1968) was only noteworthy for good performances by Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch, Jim Brown and Aldo Sambrell. In The Five Man Army (1969) Peter Graves embarked on a mission impossible to rob a steel-plated ‘bank on wheels’ (a train), while Leone’s Duck You Sucker (1971 —also called A Fistful of Dynamite) was the most disappointing of all. Rod Steiger’s overbearing performance as Juan, a peasant bandit (who pre- dictably becomes a revolutionary) ruins the film. Only Morricone’s exceptional score (including the mythical nine-minute ‘Inventions for John’) and James Coburn’s appearance as John H. Mallory, a motorcycle-riding IRA dynamiter, make the outing worthwhile. Apart from 4 Professional Gun, only three revolution-set westerns of the era emerged with any dignity: A Bullet for the General, the US western The Professionals (1966 — starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Claudia Cardinale and Jack Palance) and Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (1969). The Wild Bunch featured the best machine-gun shootout of the revolution genre, with its fiery ‘Battle of Bloody Porch’ climax, when the Bunch take on General Mapache’s army in Agua Verde. More blank ammunition (90,000 rounds) was fired during the
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