Apr 10, 2023
Le colt cantarono la morte e fu... tempo di massacro (Massacre Time, 1966)
"But dear Jeremiah, how can you abandon the land where you've lived, where your dead are buried?"
"I don't have any dead buried here."
"You do now."
#Le colt cantarono la morte e fu... tempo di massacro#massacre time#spaghetti western#italian cinema#lucio fulci#1966#fernando di leo#franco nero#george hilton#nino castelnuovo#giuseppe addobbati#linda sini#rina franchetti#tchang yu#aysanoa runachagua#tom felleghy#franco moruzzi#roberto alessandri#john bartha#sal borgese#gino barbacane#coriolano gori#also known as Colt Concert‚ The Brute and the Beast‚ and in some territories passed off as a Django sequel or prequel (as were the majority#of spaghetti westerns in this era). this was Fulci's first western‚ and in some ways it was the making of him as a director: having mostly#made comedy films until this point‚ this was the beginning of Fulci as genre maverick‚ the first hints of brutal‚ bloody violence and#uncompromising cruelty. his work here is pretty brilliant too; full of wild angles and extreme close ups‚ with a constantly gliding camera#that follows Nero's brooding stranger around a town gripped by terror. Nero's good (he always is tbf) but he's run rings around by Hilton#in his breakthrough role as the drink sodden but still sharp shooting brother. Castelnuovo is a strong villain too‚ his head almost#permanently cocked to one side‚ squinting through his madness as he plays the organ or shoots down children. it's a showy part and he's#well suited to it. di Leo's script doesnt quite live up to the excellent work Fulci's doing nor does it offer much to differentiate this