"A politician would promise an amnesty to the murderer of his own father to win an election." - Sheriff Burnett ("The Great Silence")
The Mercenary aka A Professional Gun (Sergio Corbucci, 1968) - US Poster
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Find a Place to Die (Guiliano Carniemo, 1968) - Spanish Poster
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Ace High (Giuseppe Colizzi, 1968) - US Quad Poster
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The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci, 1968) - US Poster
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Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968) - West German Poster
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The Five Man Army (Don Taylor and Italo Zingarelli, 1969) - Italian Poster
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They Were Called Graveyard (Nando Circero, 1969) - Italian Poster
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No Room to Die (Sergio Garrone, 1969) - Italian Poster
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A Bullet for Sandoval (Julio Buchs, 1969) - Italian Poster
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Law of Violence (Gianni Crea, 1969) - Italian Poster
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The Specialist (Sergio Corbucci, 1969) - French Poster
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The Price of Power (Tonino Valerii, 1969) - Spanish Poster
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Sabata (Gianfranco Parolini, 1969) - US Poster
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I'll Forgive You, Before I Kill You! (Juan Bosch, 1970) - Italian Poster
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Shango (Edoardo Mulargia, 1970) - Italian Poster
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Django and Sartana are Coming...It's the End! (Demofilo Fidani and Diego Spataro 1970) - Italian Poster
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Companeros (Sergio Corbucci, 1970) - West German Poster
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The Beast (Mario Costa, 1970) - Italian Poster
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And God Said to Cain (Antonio Margheriti, 1970) - Italian Poster
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They Call Me Trinity (Enzo Barboni, 1970) - Italian Poster
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The Stranger that Kneels Beside the Shadow of a Corpse (Demofilo Fidani, 1970) - Italian Poster
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Savage Guns (Demofilo Sadani, 1971) - Italian Poster
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Return of Sabata (Gianfranco Parolini, 1971) - US Poster
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Adios Sabata (Gianfranco Parolini, 1971) - US Poster
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Trinity Is Still My Name (Enzo Barboni, 1971) - US Poster
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A Fistful of Dynamite (Sergio Leone, 1971) - Italian Poster
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A Town Called Hell (Robert Parrish, 1971) - US Poster
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Bastard, Go and Kill! (Gino Mangini, 1971) - Italian Poster
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Mallory Must Not Die (Mario Moroni, 1971) - Italian Poster
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The Price of Death (Enzo Gicca Palli, 1971) - Italian Poster
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It Can Be Done Amigo (Maurizio Lucidi, 1972) - Spanish Poster
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Cut Throats Nine (Joaquin Luis Romero Marchent, 1972) - Spanish Poster
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Man of the East (Enzo Barboni, 1972) - Italian Poster
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Kill the Poker Player (Mario Bianchi, 1972) - Italian Poster
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Watch Out Gringo! Sabata Will Return (Alfonso Balcazar, 1972) - Italian Poster
"Where there's revolution there's confusion and when there's confusion a man who knows what he wants stands a good chance of getting it." - John H. Mallory ("A Fistful of Dynamite")
i'm sending both of these posts to my tattoo artist
ReplyDeleteI'd love to see the return of the painted film poster. Even the dubious quality films gain a little gravitas. The Return of Sabata isn't a great film, but that poster is an absolute classic.
ReplyDeleteOne more part to come as well Dave :-)
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more Rich! The same can be said for the TRINITY films.
ReplyDeleteIm with Rich Flannagan on this, the painted movie poster was a cool thing, too bad its dissapeared.
ReplyDeleteDidnt even know that Klaus Kinski had made a couple of westerns! I need to get my hands on some of Django films as well.
Kinski appeared in many European Westerns Franco, arguably it was the genre for which he was most famous in the late 60's/early 1970's. The first DAJNGO is obviously the key one, with Franco Nero and directed by Sergio Corbucci. Also important is DJANGO KILL...IF YOU LIVE, SHOOT! which is easily the most surreal, cynical, and unpleasant of the Euro Westerns. Like many films it used the DJANGO prefix, but wasn't really a Django film at all.
ReplyDeleteI really need to see some more Gianni Garko/Sartana films. Although I like him best in "The Flowers With The Petals of Steel", I've heard "The Price of Death" is very good...?
ReplyDeleteI couldn't tell you Jonny - I haven't seen THE PRICE OF DEATH either. Some of these lesser known Euro Westerns are very difficult to track down.
ReplyDeleteA nice selection there, Shaun. Some truly classic movies mixed with some truly dreadful ones. I doubt I will ever look at another Fidani western again, not that I've ever been able to watch one from start to finish in the first place. One of the posters (THEY WERE CALLED GRAVEYARD) caught my attention as I'd not heard of it and discovered I have the movie under the TWICE A JUDAS title, lol.
ReplyDeleteKinski did these movies for the money and little else and many of them he's barely in them at all as the filmmakers couldn't afford him but for a couple days as his asking price was terribly high. GREAT SILENCE is easily his crowning achievement in the genre out of all the others he's done.