★ 7 / 10
Bounty Hunters in Bountiful Bullet Bonanza. Una lunga
John Chard
Bounty Hunters in Bountiful Bullet Bonanza. Una lunga fila di croci (AKA: No Room to Die/A Noose for Django/Hanging for Django) is directed by Sergio Garrone…
Bounty Hunters in Bountiful Bullet Bonanza.
Una lunga fila di croci (AKA: No Room to Die/A Noose for Django/Hanging for Django) is directed by Sergio Garrone and features music by Vasco and Mancuso, with cinematography by Franco Villa. It stars Anthony Steffen, William Berger, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Mario Brega and Riccardo Garrone.
Illegal Mexican immigrants are being smuggled over the border to work as cheap labour for wealthy land baron Fargo (Garrone). Fargo’s gang is made up of known criminals with bounties on their heads, this greatly interests two bounty hunters, Brandon (Steffen) and Murdock (Berger), who may have to team up to achieve their goals and stay ahead of the game?
On plot terms it’s simplicity 101, a couple of cool dudes are waging a war against the evil and wealthy town boss and his gang. In true Spaghetti Western style a lot of blood is shed, there’s plenty of scowling from scuzzy men and pouting from the lead babe. A twist is thrown in for good measure, and on an action quota basis this never lacks in that department. In fact I think there might be more gunplay than actual dialogue!
It’s what I would call a safe Spaghetti Western, a chance to make a telling political point is wasted, but there’s a lot of style around to ensure that the pic is never once dull. Garrone (Django the Bastard) knows his Spaghetti and indulges in the staples of the genre, with canted angles, revolving frames, whippy pans, zooms in and out, up-tilts and fight scenes that literally come through the camera. Add in Berger’s 7 barrelled shotgun with its endless supply of bullets, a schizophrenic musical score, the gorgeous Machiavelli getting a female role of some substance, and it’s all good really.
Not top tier Spaghetti, and it is hardly original, but it keeps the plate warm with bullets and punches galore. 7/10
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★ 7 / 10
No Time To Die with No Room To Die.
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Selling the DVD of Lucio Fulci's outstanding Giallo The Psychic, (1977-also reviewed) I looked for a bonus title I could send to the buyer as a free gift. In a…
Selling the DVD of Lucio Fulci's outstanding Giallo The Psychic, (1977-also reviewed) I looked for a bonus title I could send to the buyer as a free gift. In a Spaghetti Western mood,I found a disc which I've been meaning to play for years (!) leading to me booking a room.
View on the film:
Dressed all in black with strands of Klaus Kinski-style wild blonde hair standing on ends,William Berger brings a grittiness to the Wild West as Everett 'Bible' Murdock. Speaking only to wish those about to get killed by his 7- barrel gun (!) God Speed, Berger has Bible go full Old Testament, as Berger has Bible hold each target with a unsettling calmness in the slow, silent manner he walks to give out justice.
The third Spaghetti Western Sergio, (nothing personal man) writer/director Sergio Garrone & cinematographer Franco Villa bring surrealist flourishes to the gunfight in startling dips into black and white splattered close-ups. Rolling down cameras in the opening scene which smash into the border wall, Garrone brings that fluidity to the shoot-out set-pieces, rapidly firing the camera to blistering bullet point whip-pans, landing on a final zoom-in stand-off tribute to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966-also reviewed.)
Loading up on social commentary about the abuse trafficked immigrants suffer, the un- credited screenplay by Garrone disappointingly does not fire off a full round, due to the more serious trafficked plot thread being at odds with the wonderfully animated Bible finding that their is no room to die.
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