The Great Silence Details

Radical western mayhem

Released over here as The Big Silence, it's great to be able to finally see this once impossible to find Spaghettii Western. Where Corbucci's Django veered away from the desert towns of Sergio Leone to present a dirty, grimy world of mud and blood, Silence moves further away from the cliches and here the action takes place high in the snow capped mountains, creating a gleaming and etherial canvas for it's action.

Very much a film of it's radical days, Silence plays out almost as an anti-Spaghetti western, keen to demolish the stereotypes and play against the grain, but don't be put off, Silence has some amazing, masochistic quirks that must not be missed: a gunfighter who blasts off the thumbs of his bounty hunter opponents so that they will never shoot again; a mute hero, his throat horribly scarred and a superb score... 10 out of 10.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Bounty Hunters

This is a typical Spaghetti Western type offering. Klaus Kinski is a ruthless bounty hunter who meets up with some competition in the form of another bounty hunter who has scruples. Part of the movie is set in a snowy wilderness, which is very nice to look at. Klaus gives a good performance in this western, and the storyline is interesting enough. Worth a look-see.