Grand Duel

Il grande duello

Italy, West Germany, France

1972

98 Min

Color

2.35:1

Italian, English

Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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PROD Henryk Choroscicki, Ettore Rosboch

CAST Lee Van Cleef, Horst Frank, Alberto Dentice, Marc Mazza, Jess Hahn, Klaus Grünberg, Antonio Casale, Dominique Darel, Alessandra Cardini

MUSIC Luis Bacalov, Sergio Bardotti

Philipp Wermeer has been framed for the murder of a powerful figure known as The Patriarch. Wermeer escapes, but the three Saxon brothers, sons of The Patriarch, have arranged for a large bounty on Wermeer’s head. Clayton is a grizzled ex-sheriff stripped of his office in Jefferson after refusing to acknowledge Wermeer’s guilt. During a series of fire-fights, Clayton contrives to help Wermeer escape from attacks of bounty-hunters. Together, the two make their way to Jefferson, where they can confront the three powerful Saxon brothers, and reveal the surprising truth about who killed The Patriarch. —IMDb

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G.W. Johansson

8Mar13

Great style, a classic Bacalov score, and a late but always cool Van Cleef who gets a fine ending to what seems the last of his good spaghetti westerns. Reminds me of what Peckinpah did for Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea a decade earlier in RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY.

WhatsUpWill

13Aug12

Lee Van Cleef is the man.

Christopher Smith

17Jan11

Superior spaghetti western is packed with some wild over-the-top action scenes and memorable characters, shot with style and energy by director Giancarlo Santi, and set to an excellent score by Luis Bacalov. Great fun for fans of the genre.

Neither/Nor

25Dec10

Typical Van Cleef fare recalls plot elements of both the Big Gundown and Death Rides a Horse, but with less successful results. If it deserves attention, it's for the Leone-esque eponymous duel, memorable for its music, which would eventually provide Tarantino with the score for O-Ren Ishii's origin story.