The Big Gundown

1967 [ITALIAN]

Action / Drama / Western

9
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 86% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 7836 7.8K

maverick mormon spaghetti western waterhole

Director

Sergio Sollima Photo
Sergio Sollima

Top cast

Lorenzo Robledo Photo
Lorenzo Robledo as Dave - Pioneer
Pietro Ceccarelli Photo
Pietro Ceccarelli as Jack
Nello Pazzafini Photo
Nello Pazzafini as Hondo - Ex-Union Outlaw
Lee Van Cleef Photo
Lee Van Cleef as Jonathan 'Colorado' Corbett
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873.05 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 3
1.58 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by elo-equipamentos 8 / 10

One of the best Spaghetti I've ever seen!!!

Here we have two legendary actors together, the stereotyped Lee Van Cleef & Tomas Millian, the first a true American from New Jersey that went to stardom after working with the master Sergio Leone, Tomas Millian a Cuban that made an impressive career at Italy and Spain on spaghetti genre although both had a fine experience on Italian Poliziotteschi on the seventies.As strange as it may seems Lee Van Cleef plays a good guy Jonathan Colorado Corbett, a bounty hunter that swept the western territory of those outlaws, bank robbers and related, such striking performance impresses the greedy and wealthy financier Brokston (Walter Barnes) that is willing underwrite Corbett to run of the senate's seat, however appears an unexpected sad news, a twelve years old girl was raped and murdered by a Mexican outlaw called Cuchillo (Tomas Millian), they require to Corbett bring him alive to be punished rather than he cross the Mexico frontier.The savvy Corbett finds him sooner than he had ever hope, Cuchillo was calmly shaving at a small village, nonetheless the slippery cat burglar escapes with rare smartness, the next stop is a Mormon's wagon train passing by the river area, Corbett finds him about to rape another young girl, once more Cuchillo has a lucky at his side, the young girl shot at Corbett's shoulder, next meeting at widow farmer where the dirtiest runaway at last was arrested, meantime all it took was a small slip up for the cunning outlaw slips away, a new rallying point takes place in a desert waterhole, where the crafty bandolero sticks a cactus's thorn at Corbett's back pretending a snake's bite that is near him, what scene, anyway Cuchillo still gets running over and over until weary confess that he wasn't rape the girl whatsoever, although he knows who did.Isn't all that Tarantino regards this movie one the best spaghetti ever, the both leading actors had a flawless performance, the final showdown is priceless , the director Sergio Sollima lived up at Leone's style, I'll look forward for a better restoration preserving the fabulous Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1, due my copy was of the first generation of DVD!!Thanks for reading.Resume:First watch: 1993 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 8
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Reviewed by jadflack 8 / 10

good stylish spaghetti western

Retired sheriff is persuaded by a politician to come back and hunt down a Mexican who has raped and murdered a twelve year old girl but he slowly realises the Mexican has been framed to cover up the real murderer. Good, stylish spaghetti western,this is the longer uncut version of the film and not the hacked up Amercian version that lost nearly twenty minutes of footage.This has a rather slow start and develops into a chase movie in a kind of western version of "the fugitive".Lee Van Cleef is his usual dependable self and the Ennio Morricone soundtrack is good although i'm not sure about the screeching title song!Film is good and satisfies overall.

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