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Director: Clint Eastwood
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From Time Out Film Guide
As gravestone inscriptions in the town of Lago (painted red and renamed Hell by the phantom drifter) make clear, this was supposed to be Eastwood's fond adieu to the worlds of Sergio Leone and Don Siegel; and indeed he cuts the operatic excess of the former with the punchy economy of the latter. Yet the way Ernest Tidyman's script is submitted to distortion and distension, and fitted with Bruce Surtees' almost surreal images (and several twists of the ghostly revenge plot itself), suggest nothing so much as Eastwood returning for reference to the popular Japanese cinema from which Leone himself first borrowed for the Dollars films. Whatever, there's a boldness, confident stylisation, and genuine weirdness to the movie that totally escaped other post-spaghetti American Westerns, with a real sense of exorcism running both through and beyond it.Author: PT
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- benjamin ross said...
- Posted on Apr 09 2009 00:08 i just caught this on the box and had to let u know this is one hell of a film, totally gripped me. even if u don't like westerns if u get the chance check this one out. wicked film!
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Cast & crew
Director: Clint Eastwood
Producer: Robert Daley
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Mariana Hill, Mitchell Ryan, Jack Ging, Stefan Gierasch, Billy Curtis, Geoffrey Lewis full cast
Genre(s): Westerns
Duration: 105 mins
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