For a Spaghetti western a quite political film, unusual and very, very
good. Darkly brutal, epically grand and masterful.
Without a doubt one of the greatest entries to the genre.
It's the time of the (one of the times) Mexican revolution
and the film starts off with a massacre when a gang of brutal
killers and weapon thieves attacks a train. The gang is lead by a man
called Chuncho (a very good Gian Maria Volonté)
and one of the members are a priest (Klaus Kinski) and a woman called
Adelita (Martine Beswick) and they are stealing
weapons for selling to the Revolution leaders.
A cool young american, El Niño (Lou Castel) also hangs out with
Chuncho's gang.
A very good spaghetti western, a very good western and
a very good film this for sure is and it's one of my western
All Time favourites. Only Once Upon a Time in the West is better, and
this film is a good example of how the Italians
deconstructed and re-created the Western genre and put some new life
into the conservative and stuffy old US films.
The film is presented in anamorphic widescreen 2.35:1
with an english audio, international trailer and a US trailer