Death Rides a Horse

Da Uomo a Uomo

Italy

1967

116 Min

Color

2.35:1

Italian

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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PROD Henryk Chrosicki, Alfonso Sansone

CAST Lee Van Cleef, John Phillip Law, Luigi Pistilli, Mario Brega, Anthony Dawson, Jose Torres, Franco Balducci, Bruno Corazzari

Christofer Pierson

9Mar12

Three stars for a workmanlike western. Four stars for Morricone's sublimely weird score.

Despite many clunky, meandering scenes (approximately 75% of the movie), there are many moments at the beginning and a few later on (like the one highlighted in the accompanying image) when Morricone's mastery and Lee Van Cleef's presence epitomize macho, badass cool.

Michael Harbour

17Jan12

Routine Spaghetti Western. Roger Ebert's 1969 review includes this canny observation: "Van Cleef's face, in closeup, has the lean, hardened, embittered expression of a man who has either (a) been pursuing his lonely vengeance across the plains of the West for 30 years, or (b) realizes he will be making spaghetti Westerns the rest of his life."

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