Place Called Glory City

1965 [GERMAN]

Action / Drama / Romance / Western

3
IMDb Rating 5.3/10 10 225 225

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Plot summary

Two celebrated gunfighters are separately hired to come to a small Canadian town in Manitoba named "Glory" for a showdown at high noon. But before they can do that, they join forces and take on a bandit gang that dominates the area.

Director

Sheldon Reynolds Photo
Sheldon Reynolds

Top cast

Hans Nielsen Photo
Hans Nielsen as Jeff
Marianne Koch Photo
Marianne Koch as Jade Grande
Lex Barker Photo
Lex Barker as Clint Brenner
Víctor Israel Photo
Víctor Israel as Hotel Clerk
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855.22 MB
1280*544
German 2.0
NR
Subtitles de  
23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 1
1.55 GB
1920*816
German 2.0
NR
Subtitles de  
23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by coltras35 4 / 10

A place Called Glory

Former rancher Clint Brenner and the younger Reese, his equal in skill at gun-fighting, are independently recruited to help farmer Seth Grande free the locals of Manitoba town Glory City from vast ranch owner Jack Villaine's rule of terror.Lex Barker and Pierre Brice forsake their buckskin and moccasins to star in this slightly unusual ( the gunfight as a show is a good idea) and rather atmospheric western. There's some good performances especially by Lex Barker, who is quite weary and keeps on saying that it's none of his business, and Marianne Koch, who once again, is forced to stay with the heel. Sort of how she was coerced to be with Ramon in A fistful of Dollars. Having said all this, this western plods too much, the pace is slower than a tortoise and it lacks some spark as well as action. The gunfight was a bit of a letdown. Shame, because this could have been quite good.
Reviewed by Horst_In_Translation 4 / 10

Brice and Barker outside of May

"Die Hölle von Manitoba" or "Glory City", and there are many more German-language and English-language titles for this film, is a West German 90-minute movie from 1965, so this one had its 50th anniversary last year already. The two stars in here are both familiar faces as this film came out when Pierre Brice and Lex Barker starred in the Winnetou / old Shatterhand franchise. This film here is also a western, but has nothing to do with Karl May. The writers who adapted the novel are Spanish and that's why it is also a Spanish co-production. The original writer as well as the director Sheldon Reynolds are American. As a whole, I would say that this was a pretty generic western film. Nothing about it stands really out, even if I must say that Barker is as charismatic as always and Brice is probably giving a better performance than in the Winnetou films. However, the story is just very stereotypical and offers little that is not entirely forgettable. A lot of the film has to do with friendship. The relationship between the two protagonists is one of the better aspects of the movie. On the downside though, the antagonist(s) and most of the plot are entirely forgettable. The ending also feels like style over substance. And just like the Winnetou films, this film here also lacks shade completely in terms of the characters. They are either all good or downright evil. I do not recommend the watch, except you are a real die-hard western fan. Thumbs down from me. Oh yeah, final note: It's a color movie, not to be taken for granted half a century ago, but Barker/Brice weren't doing black-and-white films, at least not at this point.
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