Posted on 07/13/2014 12:39:04 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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I love Leone’s westerns.
That movie is not on my package but I did notice “The Man who Shot Liberty Valance” and “Bend Of The River” are both on tonight.
“I love Leone’s westerns.”
His “ Once Upon a Time In America” just may be the best movie ever made, IMHO.
Did you ever notice in all these spaghetti Westerns and those ludicrously made Italian Hercules movies when ever any characters are walking or running there seems to be a very audible scratching and scrapping noise of their feet? Is this some sound effect to suggest movement or something?
Ah, the power of a good spaghetti Western! {^)
For me, Silverado and Warlock.
The bit at the beginning by Jack Elam was outstanding!
One of my all time favorite movies!
Charles Bronson does a great job in that role.....and Claudia Cardinale. Ooh La la!
Her eyes, of course.
“Did you ever notice in all these spaghetti Westerns ...”
Everything you hear is dubbed in either by the guys putting in the new language sound effects or foley artists who do the same thing with respect to the original sound effects. I have no Idea why they can’t use the original sound effects track in the dubbed version but they don’t seem to. The originals are always a bit more backed off or subtle. I hate the super-hot-too-well-recorded effects that result in the sound you describe. It’s a pet peeve of mine.
Watched it on Youtube a couple weeks ago. One of my 30 favorite movies.
Lovely. If you’d like more Claudia, check out last week’s movie for a Sunday Afternoon-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3176664/posts
It’s “Circus World” with her, John Wayne and Rita Hayworth.
Yeah, the dubbing is bad and the Italian actors seem trying too hard to sound like gruff Americans. It comes off badly. But as I said,it’s that weird noise you hear whenever the actors are walking or running, especially in those old ‘Hercules’’ films. I think it was a series because I remember watching them on Saturday afternoons as a kid around ten or eleven years old(I’m now fifty-eight).
Instead of trying to select the best western, including spaghetti western, I would instead select the 10 best westerns. In no order.
1) The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
2) Once Upon A Time In The West.
3) Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood version).
4) The Great Silence (aka “the western in the snow”, an extremely harsh movie with alternate endings.)
5) A Fistful Of Dollars. An unauthorized remake of the Akira Kurosawa film Yojimbo (1961).
6) For A Few Dollars More.
7) High Noon.
8) The Searchers.
9) The Magnificent Seven. A remake of Akira Kurosawa’s film Seven Samurai.
10) The Wild Bunch.
Let me add some standouts.
Rancho Notorious (1952) Dir. Fritz Lang, starring Marlene Dietrich.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007). Underrated, both the direction and acting are top notch.
Winchester ‘73 (1950).
Tombstone (1993).
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). Though taking place in the 1920s, and as much film noir as western, it still deserves recognition.
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