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A Bullet For The General
1966
A fast paced and vicious spaghetti western starring Klaus Kinski and Lou Castel, A BULLET FOR THE GENERAL begins as a gang of former Mexican rebels attempt to rob a train carrying munitions, which they plan to sell to a revolutionary named General Elias. One of the passengers on the train, a gringo named Bill Tate (Castel), .. Read more
| Starring | Gian Maria Volonte, Klaus Kinski, Martine Beswick, Lou Castel |
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| Director | Damiano Damiani |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, World Cinema |
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A Bullet For The General
A fast paced and vicious spaghetti western starring Klaus Kinski and Lou Castel, A BULLET FOR THE GENERAL begins as a gang of former Mexican rebels attempt to rob a train carrying munitions, which they plan to sell to a revolutionary named General Elias. One of the passengers on the train, a gringo named Bill Tate (Castel), helps the bandits steal the weapons, ingratiating him with the leader of the bandits, El Chuncho, who accepts him into his gang. However, Tate is really an assassin sent by the Mexican government to kill General Elias, who is an old friend of El Chuncho's. Incensed at the murder of his old friend, El Chuncho is inspired to become a revolutionary once again, but not before he hunts down Tate and kills him.
| Starring | Gian Maria Volonte, Klaus Kinski, Martine Beswick, Lou Castel, Andrea Checchi, Spartaco Conversi, Jaime Fernandez, Joaquin Parra, Aldo Sambrell |
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| Director | Damiano Damiani |
| Studio | ARGENT FILMS LTD |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 53 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Italian |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 28 Aug 2008 Production year: 1966 |
| Format | DVD |
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Think spaghetti western and Sergio Leone will always spring to mind. Other directors who toyed with the form are generally overlooked. Take Damiano Damiani, for example — the Italian (still very much in business) whose film A Bullet for the General is a very decent stab at the genre. Capably instilling the violence with intelligent, probing moral concern, Damiani also casts Gian Maria Volonté and Klaus Kinski, both of whom star alongside Clint Eastwood in Leone's For a Few Dollars More. There is a creative tension throughout between introspection and exuberance.
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Slow-paced, interesting spaghetti Western concerned with matters of life and death and the making of moral choices.
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One of the Best
This is a great spaghetti western - ranks alongside the dollars trilogy and probably exceeds it for vitality and pure cinematic enjoyment. There is a great life about this film, embodied especially in Gian Maria Volonte's exuberant performance. He was a great actor. It is the most convincing recreation of Mexico in southern Spain and rivals Peckinpah's 'The Wild Bunch' for its evocation of the Mexican Civil War. Production values are much higher than the average and it has a genuinely populist political point of view, something the dollars films don't have.A life-enhancing movie. Viva Volonte!
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
One of the Best
This is a great spaghetti western - ranks alongside the dollars trilogy and probably exceeds it for vitality and pure cinematic enjoyment. There is a great life about this film, embodied especially in Gian Maria Volonte's exuberant performance. He was a great actor. It is the most convincing recreation of Mexico in southern Spain and rivals Peckinpah's 'The Wild Bunch' for its evocation of the Mexican Civil War. Production values are much higher than the average and it has a genuinely populist political point of view, something the dollars films don't have.A life-enhancing movie. Viva Volonte!
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