The Great Silence details
| Format: | 15 DVD |
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| Starring: | Klaus Kinski, Jean-Louis Trintignant |
| Director: | Sergio Corbucci |
| Genres: | Action/Adventure - Westerns, World Cinema - Italian |
| Studio: | LACE GROUP |
| Name | Discs | |
|---|---|---|
The Great Silence |
15 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 45 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 23 Aug 2004 |
| Main languages: | Italian |
| Dubbed: | English |
| Subtitles: | English, Italian |
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Radical western mayhem
By DeepRed64 from Nottinghamshire , 08 Dec 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
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.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(11)italian rubbish
By nobbyone (144 reviews) , 05 Aug 2011THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Show review anywayHide
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tops
By scorpion (538 reviews) from Mexborough , 20 Dec 2007A GOOD MODERN WESTERN GOOD ACTION A MUST- Was this review helpful to you?
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heavy but nice
By a customer from london, england , 01 Jun 2007They used to say this spaghetti was too violent to be seen but there is too much snow without blood on it to really warrant such reputation. It is more like euro western in my book but I watched it twice even though I didn't t hink it was that good.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Bounty Hunters
By TopDollar (89 reviews) from North Wales , 28 Mar 2007This 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.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Always respect the dead.
By ChesterDent (121 reviews) from London , 19 Aug 2006Cynicism and evil triumph in Corbucci's snowbound spaghetti western. The contrasting lead characters - Jean Louis Trintignant's mute Silence (whose signature is shooting off thumbs) and Klaus Kinski's theatrically demented Loco - are excellent. The claustrophobic, grim mood is very effective but despite introducing some fresh and unusual ideas into the genre it is overall a conventional, but very entertaining, western.- Was this review helpful to you?
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