Death Rides a Horse (1968)
Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge. On his journey, he finds himself continually sparring and occasionally cooperating with Ryan, a gunfighter on his own quest for vengeance, who knows more than he says about Bill's tragedy.
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best movie i've ever seen.
There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.
This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
This is a fun movie but certainly doesn't deserve the high praise it's getting in a lot of these reviews. About all it has going for it is Lee Van Cleef and he is mostly wasted. Lacks all the finesse and most of the originality of even many of the other Leone rip-offs.P.S. If you are a Mexican village under the evil domination of Bad Hombres and Lee Van Cleef arrives and promises to help out, your village elders might want to view this movie before accepting his help.
After Lee Van Cleef scored in the Clint Eastwood spaghetti western films and after years of support he became a star on his own. Not exactly leading man material, Van Cleef became a kind of lower case Lee Marvin for the rest of his career. His first starring vehicle was Death Rides A Horse where he plays an old outlaw who has a score to settle with an outlaw gang that betrayed him.Also having a score to settle is young John Phillip Law who as a child saw the same band murder his parents and sister. One of the outlaws feeling sorry for him, carried him from a burning building. This is hardly an original plot and has been done in American and spaghetti westerns a Gazillion times best known as the storyline in Once Upon A Time In The West. Still veteran westerner Van Cleef and Law carry it off with aplomb.I'm not a big fan of spaghetti westerns, but this one is all right.
Perhaps by calling it a spaghetti western you now already know the storyline and the ending.It starts with a family being killed for some reason and yet the young boy is left alive by the gang who ensured they killed everyone else in the room. So - little thought went in to the scenario for setting up the revenge storyline.The boy grows up and ... well you can guess.Lee Van Cleef becomes the mentor, guardian, partner, competitor and plays his usual role to the usual high standard.The story plays out - but that's about it.There is nothing in the dialog to add value. There is nothing from the support actors. There aren't even any tense moments or long held stares as there should be in a spag-western.A fun genre, for which this is a lesser number.
This movie started off with a great opening scene with a bad storm and a family who gets slaughtered this is typical for SW movies a revenge for a slaughtered family theme. I liked how it showed four men masked and each man shows the boy some distinguishing feature to help him later in life identify each of the culprits with the exception of one who loses the bandanna around his face and is an easy spot. Another man comes in and saves the boy from the fire. Its a great western of two men who both have a score to settle with the same men. It is director Guilio Petroni's best western by most critics, I have yet to see his Night of the Serpent which is told to be a great second of his work. Lee Van Cleef gives a great performance in this one and the famous Ennio Morricone gives another brilliant score. I actually always have enjoyed the villain roles of Anthony Dawson and he is good in this one as well.