Lo Voglio Morto (1968)
Genre: Western
Duration: 82 minuten
Alternative titles: I Want Him Dead / Lo Quiero Muerto
Country:
Italy / Spain
Directed by: Paolo Bianchini
Stars: Craig Hill, Lea Massari and José Manuel Martín
IMDb score:
6,1 (550)
Releasedate: 15 June 1968
Lo Voglio Morto plot
Clayton's sister Aloma is raped and murdered by Jack Blood just as Clayton is out of town. When he returns, he encounters several problems. He decides to take revenge and restore order in the city.
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Brix
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Above average spaghetti with red sauce.
Hill (unfortunately not Terence) looks tough, but his real draw is his striking eyes.
The camera also plays on this extensively.
Sometimes a little too much.
He doesn't have nearly the acting talent of namesake Terence and Franco Nero, but with better direction this could have been improved.
It's okay, but the script makes a mess of it when Clayton, after being beaten half to death repeatedly, returns to being fit as a fiddle in no time.
That could have been a bit more realistic, and the film would have benefited from it.
Clayton's incredibly stupid actions also bring the level down.
It's a shame that the director apparently didn't see that, because there are quite a few things that speak for the film.
The locations are exceptionally beautiful and not your standard spaghetti western.
The music is also very digestible, with the exception of the title song, which is once again sung in ridiculously bad English.
There are some decent supporting actors and actresses in it.
(you do have to put up with the idiotic laughter and the over-acting at times)
The story has something to it, but not quite enough.
I watched the fairly well dubbed English version on YouTube, in HD quality.
I don't know if there is a DVD of this version available.
An Italian one (with German subs, from Koch Media) and a Spanish one.
It's not good enough for me to buy, but I wasn't bored during this viewing.
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thunderball
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- 5900 messages
- 1420 votes
Yesterday afternoon I finally watched this film, in Italian with English subs, from the third Arrow Spaghetti Western box set, after falling asleep completely during a previous attempt a year or so ago.
A pretty good spaghetti western with some nice camera shots of the rugged mountain landscape, an orange sunset, and an atmospheric score.
Hill is good in the lead role and is supported by the usual suspects, with Martin for once taking on a larger role as the main villain.
Also a trio of beautiful women, the most important of which is of course Massari, whose stage name "Lea" was a tribute to her late fiancé Leo, who died just before their wedding at the age of 22.
The story is—oh! How original!—a revenge tale, with Craig hunting down his younger sister's killers and doing so ruthlessly, as is fitting.
Director Bianchini delivers a good film, even though he himself didn't have much sympathy for the genre and was against violence in films, but unfortunately for him, he has made many commercial works like this, including the necessary horror films.
There's a story, for example, that he was ashamed to tell the box office that he was the director of this film and bought a ticket, but when he entered the theater and saw how the young people cheered every murder, he felt guilty about the bad influence he might have had with this work.
A solid seven, or 3.5 stars.
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