The Big Gundown

La resa dei conti

Spain, Italy

1966

105 Min

Color

Italian

Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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SCR Sergio Donati, Sergio Sollima, Tulio Demicheli, Fernando Morandi, Franco Solinas

CAST Lee Van Cleef, Tomas Milian, Gérard Herter, Walter Barnes, Fernando Sancho, María Granada, Nieves Navarro, Silvana Bacci, Roberto Camardiel, Tom Felleghy, Calisto Calisti, Antonio Molino Rojo, Jose Torres, Luis Barboo, Fernando Bilbao, Frank Braña, Antonio Casas, Spartaco Conversi, Ángel del Pozo, Maribel Martín, Nello Pazzafini, Romano Puppo, Lorenzo Robledo, Benito Stefanelli, Monica Strebel

ED Gaby Peñalba, Adriana Novelli

MUSIC Ennio Morricone, Audrey Nohra

London (Treasures)

Synopsis

Jonathan Corbett is a bounty hunter and when he is offered to hunt down a Mexican, who is accused of raping a girl, he doesn’t turn down the deal. Cuchillo is not easy to catch though. Corbett is just as determined to catch him as Cuchillo is to get away. During the hunt Corbett gets to know Cuchillo better and starts to doubt if he is guilty of the rape or not. Easily one of the top 10 Spaghetti Westerns. Earns its place up there with the Leone classics. Also supreme music by Ennio Morricone. —spaghettiwesterns.1g.fi

Director

Sergio Sollima

Sergio Sollima (born April 17, 1921 in Rome) is an Italian former film director and script writer.

Like many Italian cult directors, Sollima started his career by directing mostly sword and sandal movies that were very popular in the early 1960s. After the genre’s popularity quickly died out, Sollima was among the first ones to move to spaghetti westerns. The Big Gundown (starring Lee Van Cleef and Tomas Milian) was released in 1966 with big success, despite the fact that it had to compete with Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Sergio Corbucci’s Django. Sollima soon filmed two more westerns. Face to Face (Milian and Gian Maria Volonté) was released in 1967 and Run, Man, Run! (Milian) in 1968. Although Sollima directed only three westerns and they never reached the level of popularity as the ones by the other Sergios (Leone and Corbucci), each of them are highly regarded among genre enthusiasts.

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