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I ain’t getting no younger. Time just goes by and then… then one day… one day you just get older and suddenly… you find yourself… all alone. God’s Gun is a late Italo western with Lee Van Cleef and Jack Palance produced by Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan before they created Cannon. I was instantly hyped, but my expectations were way too high I guess. The story is a collection of standard western tropes, but that’s totally fine. The main problem is that it takes way too long until something happens. When a group of bandits and outlaws terrorizes a little town, it needs help from the outside. A young boy looks for a former companion of the priest who…
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Mine is the vengeance, sayeth the lord. “God’s Gun” is a late addition to the spaghetti western genre, although technically, it doesn’t qualify as one since it was filmed entirely in Israel for Golan-Globus Productions. By 1976, the spaghetti western was struggling, and this film was the second of two movies shot in Israel starring Lee Van Cleef and Leif Garrett, the first being “Kid Vengeance.” Sam Clayton (Jack Palance) and his gang ride into Juno City with chaos in their minds. They assault the town’s women and fatally stab an old man before leaving as quickly as they arrived. The local sheriff is a useless drunk, and the judge is a coward. Both of them refuse to pursue the…
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By the late 1970s, very few spaghetti westerns were being made, in Italy or anywhere else. And, while a handful of those late entries do the genre justice, the majority that chrome out during this era were average at best, and often worse. God’s Gun is an example of the ones that are worse. Shot in Israel alongside Kid Vengeance, with the same stars (I will not be watching that one), God’s Gun stars Lee Van Cleef twice: first as a preacher (Father John), and then as a retired gunfighter (Lewis). The big bad is outlaw leader Sam Clayton, played by a completely unhinged Jack Palance, and 15-year-old pop star and teen heartthrob Leif Garrett (who is shirtless an uncomfortable…
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Sam Clayton (Jack Palance) and his gang ride into Juno City looking for trouble. They’re a bad bunch and immediately set about bullying, assaulting, and raping the town’s citizens. The town’s religious leader, Father John (Lee Van Cleef), stands up to the band of outlaws, but things don’t break his way. Eventually, word gets to the priest’s brother (Van Cleef, in a double role), a retired gunslinger who sets out to even the score. Released in 1976, God’s Gun was produced by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, only a couple of years before the pair formed Cannon Pictures. It’s tamer than the kind of pictures they’d become known for in the eighties, but God’s Gun carries some of the hallmarks…
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Jack Palance’s gang of bandits takes over a small western town, and the only line of defense is gun-wielding preacher Lee Van Cleef and plucky teen Leif Garrett. When one of them gets gunned down, all hope is lost for the townsfolk… or is it? It seems I simply will not learn my lesson about watching early Golan-Globus productions. They may just be my least favorite filmmakers of the ’70s. I’m not a huge Cannon fan in general, but at least there’s some liveliness to their ’80s nonsense. These early movies are almost uniformly bland, ugly, and terribly constructed, although the action sequences are sometimes OK. You know those former marquee actors who starred in a ton of bottom-of-the-barrel genre…
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English Version below … God’s Gun (1976) Ekdach Haelohim Diamante Lobo Der Colt Gottes Zwei Brüder … Einer nahm das Kreuz … Der andere nahm die Waffe. Rache ist sein einziges Gebot! Sam Claytons gesetzlose Gang terrorisiert die Bürger der Grenzstädte. Der Schatten der skrupellosen Bande fällt auch über Juno City, wo Jenny, Sams ehemalige Geliebte, einen Salon betreibt. Dieser wird zum Stützpunkt der Clayton Gang. Als die Gesetzlosen schliesslich den Sheriff und sogar den Pater der Stadt töten, scheint sie niemand auf der Welt mehr stoppen zu können – bis der getötete Pater als “Colt Gottes” zurückkehrt. Zweiter Cannon Group Western mit Lee Van Cleef, Jack Palance, Leif Garrett, Sybil Danning und Richard Boone. Wie schon bei Kid Vengeance…
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The last of Lee Van Cleef’s western vehicles made in the wake of his For a Few Dollars More star turn. Having had a horrible time with his other Israeli western, Kid Vengeance, I wasn’t sure I wanted to wrap my Van Cleef run on this low point. Then I noticed his Sabata collaborator Gianfranco Parolini was behind the director’s chair, and along with the usual bravado of Menahem Golan, how could I go wrong? Richard Boone was of a similar mindset: “I’m starring in the worst picture ever made. The producer is an Israeli and the director is Italian, and they don’t speak. Fortunately it doesn’t matter, because the director is deaf in both ears.” Teen idol Leif Cassidy…
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A pre-Cannon Films spaghetti western from Golan/Globus has all the right ingredients (Lee Van Cleef, Jack Palance, Sybil Danning, and director Gianfranco Parolini); unfortunately, it’s too boring and rape-heavy for the most part. Things come alive in the last twenty minutes when it suddenly becomes a gothic slasher, complete with inexplicable daytime fog. Van Cleef plays twins who look like white Snoop Dogg.
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An incredibly cornball, late-entry Spaghetti Western (shot in Israel!) with Lee Van Cleef playing two roles, one as a priest and the other as his own gambling, fast-shooting brother. This is a Golan-Globus production, later the figureheads of Cannon Films, so that might give you an idea of what you’re in for. The cheese factor is actually what makes this so entertaining because it feels like one of those Marvel Western comic books from the 50’s but with the same over the top vibe as the Italian sword and sandal movies you used to be able to watch on Saturday mornings. The dubbing is so hilarious – Van Cleef sounds like John Wayne, and Jack Palance is a cartoon villain…
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‘God’s Gun’ is a fairly late entry in the spaghetti western genre that was on its deathbed in the late 70s, produced by Cannon Films as an Italian co-production and shot in Israel. It’s one of two westerns Cannon produced back to back that starred Lee Van Cleef and teen singer and actor Leif Garrett and both of them usually get a pretty bad rap. Maybe my expectations were reasonably low going into this, but I thought it was pretty decent. It’s as trashy and sleazy as you would expect from a spaghetti western produced by Golan & Globus, but I had a good time with this for the most part. Lee Van Cleef stars in a double role as a…
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ENGLISH Version below 🇩🇪 Actionreich. Unplausibel. Infantil. Pater John (Lee Van Cleef) ist der Priester von Juno City und wird von einer Bande Banditen ermordet. Der 14jährige Johnny (Leif Garrett) wird Zeuge der Tat und spürt den Zwillingsbruder des Paters in Mexico auf, der sinnt auf Rache… Mit einer Kategorisierung als klassischer Italo-Western tue ich mich schwer, die Atmosphäre ist irgendwie nicht passend. Damit bin ich auch schon bei meinem Hauptkritikpunkt: obwohl teilweise grobe, auch sexualisierte Gewalt gezeigt wird, geraten Teile der Handlung regelrecht infantil. Dies ist der Darstellung des 14jährigen Jünglings geschuldet, der mit blonder Mähne und perlweißem Lächeln als pure Inkarnation von Unschuld und Reinheit gezeichnet wird – echt nervig! Zudem ist die Story in ihren Details äußerst…
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The best part was Lee van Cleef constantly aura farming and the sound-effects whenever he did it.
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final shot is cute. made in israel
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OOlblagg 5 月 14, 2026
Gianfranco Parolini, welcher mir für seine satirischen und parodistischen Italo-Western bekannt ist, präsentiert hier einen sehr harten Western und unbarmherzige Dekonstruktion von den männlichen Figuren. Denn der Held – Lee Van Cleef in einer Doppelrolle – verzichtet auf Gewalt. Weswegen, und hier kommt der übliche Stil von Parolini ins Spiel, er nur auf Tricks zurückgreift, um seine Widersacher auszuschalten. Währenddessen sind alle Bösen im Film Vergewaltiger und drohen auch immer wieder weiblichen Familienmitgliedern ihrer Feinde damit. Der Film inszeniert mit…
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En “Seis balas, una venganza, una oración” (rimbombante nombre de resonancias épicas) tenemos a Gianfranco Parolini, director de Sartana, a los primos Golan y Globus (unos años antes de que crearan la Cannon y se pusieran a hacer las delicias de las estanterías de los videoclubs de barrio), a Jack Palance como un malo bastante pasado de rosca y a Van Cleef por partida doble: interpretando a un cura buenísimo y a su hermano gemelo/pistolero retirado. Con estos ingredientes para…
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Just by the hair styles alone I could have told you this was made in the 70s. Plus you have Lee Van Cleef and Jack Palance in a pre Canon Golan-Globus production featuring a gun wielding preist… yeah this is the my kind of movie. Shit even though this is choppy and drags in the middle I can’t even pretend I didnt like this.
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Juste le casting hein
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another great entry in the “body is obviously a mannequin thrown from a height” genre
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Okay spaghetti western. The plot, at times, feels a little too much like a soap opera. Lee Van Cleef and Jack Palance however always give the movies they’re in a certain gravitas. 60%
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First things first, what a title! God’s Gun certainly isn’t the best western I’ve ever seen, but there was plenty of entertainment to be had here. Lee Van Cleef is my favorite western lead and he gave solid performances as the twin brothers Father John and Lewis. Other than the scenes with Van Cleef, there’s a lot of generic western tropes that pad the rest of the run time and hold back the movie from being anything great. Could’ve done…
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Not my favorite
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Even with its various flaws, this one’s a bit of a gem. Golan-Globus ended up letting Gianfranco “Frank Kramer” Parolini make a damn solid spaghetti western, which allowed both Van Cleef and Palance to play with the archetypes they’d done a half-dozen times or more by this point in their careers. Leif Garrett also surprised me with how endearing, passionate, and likable he is as young Johnny. It doesn’t have the flair, style, or explosive nature of Parolini’s classic “Sabata…
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Okay so this movie wasnt very good and was crazy in a lot of ways, but I’m a sucker for these. Not even a true spaghetti western, rhis was filmed in Israel AND produced by none of then Golan and Globus (lmao). Lee Van Cleef plays a priest and his brother and has a hilarious wig and a mullet. Everyone is dubbed for some reason? And Jack Palance is sleeping through this. Still had a great time with this trash.
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I definately lost some braincells watching this
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A Spaghetti western filmed in Israel and produced by the guys that founded Canon Films. Palance is great. Van Cleef is a badass x2 since he plays two different characters. Story is fun with some great semi-creepy moments at the end. Also, it hits every beat and isn’t too long. The real star of this film is Leif Garrett. He’s in what feels like every scene. My only complaint is that there is a fair amount of unnecessary sexual assault that just drags the film down. We know they’re bad guys, we don’t need more evidence to the fact.
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You would think a Golan/Globus spaghetti western shot in Israel would be a mess. You would be absolutely spot on. The acting was not good, especially Jack Palance, and the dubbing was so fucking terrible.
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This seems to get a bad rap – probably in large part due to some less-than-stellar acting by almost everyone who aren’t Lee Van Cleef, as well as the baffling choice to include a long scene where a group of bandits enter a saloon with the express intention of raping every woman in the film. This is then followed by said women comedically kicking and biting and struggling like it’s a cartoon. This in turn is then followed by a…
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Un western sumamente dramático q sin duda creo q fue una de las inspiraciones para las pelis de Tarantino y tal vez ¿Sam Raimi? Lee Van Cleef nunca me decepciona, y en esta película interpreta a dos personajes tremendamente épicos. La peli nos muestra a dos hermanos gemelos, uno un pistolero retirado y otro un padre de iglesia, donde el último, al tratar de proteger su pueblo termina siendo asesino por un grupo de criminales. Está noticia llega a oídos…
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Impossible not to like this at least a little bit when you have Lee Van Cleef going toe-to-toe with Jack Palance. God’s Gun signals the end of an era. Not only is it Lee Van Cleef’s last western (to be released), it’s also one of the last Spaghetti Westerns proper. A rare EuroWestern shot in Israel (produced by Goland & Globus of Cannon fame.) The finale was fairly exciting, and I really enjoyed how Van Cleef and Leif Garrett work together…
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Ok exei teen star h tainia. Gia na doume pws ekselixthike. Oh he in jail and and drug addict Nice
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Mediocre spaghetti western. The biggest issue is that Lee Van Cleef, Jack Palance and Richard Boone are all dubbed over. It really ruins the enjoyment as they all have such distinct voices.
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Lee Van Cleef looking like some kind of Terry Funk/ Rip Taylor hybrid in this movie. It does work for the character but just something so strange seeing him look like that here. Its the mid 70s and there is even a pop star in the cast and it very much feels like an oddity beyond the look of the star. The tone feels like it wants to be like the genre staples a decade prior yet there are two bumbling sidekicks that never fully cross the comedic level that you expect from later spaghetti westerns but have some very Scooby Doo esq reactions at time.
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There’s an interesting premise here but they completely failed to make it work.
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It’s not hard to make God’s Gun sound like an inviting Spaghetti Western. Take Lee Van Cleef, make him the star. Add Jack Palance, you know he’s the bad guy. Throw in Sybil Danning, because Sybil Danning, right? And then get the man behind the first Sartana film, Gianfranco Parolini, to direct it. You got the cast, you got the director. What could possibly go wrong? Start with a milquetoast script ostensibly by Parolini and John Fonseca. Add in Menahem…
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Double Van Cleef and a ghost priest. Lots to like. The assaults at Jenny’ Saloon was over the top, these movies go extra hard to establish villainy.
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Richard Boone, Sybil Danning and, snork, Leif Garrett for some reason get in on the spaghetti game when the genre was already on its arse. With foley and sound effect cues lifted directly from Leone’s Dollars trilogy (in addition to the stock library used by everyone) and Palance and Boone unfathomably dubbed by different actors (although the guy doing Palance at least tries to sound like him), God’s Gun often feels like a parody but not in a good way.…
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ENGLISH Version below 🇩🇪 Actionreich. Unplausibel. Infantil. Pater John (Lee Van Cleef) ist der Priester von Juno City und wird von einer Bande Banditen ermordet. Der 14jährige Johnny (Leif Garrett) wird Zeuge der Tat und spürt den Zwillingsbruder des Paters in Mexico auf, der sinnt auf Rache… Mit einer Kategorisierung als klassischer Italo-Western tue ich mich schwer, die Atmosphäre ist irgendwie nicht passend. Damit bin ich auch schon bei meinem Hauptkritikpunkt: obwohl teilweise grobe, auch sexualisierte Gewalt gezeigt wird, geraten…
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Kein Plan warum der so schlecht bewertet ist , der Film hat so Mega Spaß gemacht !!
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PPhoenix 9 月 8, 2025
not sure im allowed to voice my actual commentary on this movie on here so ill leave it at “this was terrible”
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Despite a double dose of Lee Van Cleef, the film’s poor writing makes it an entertainingly watchable mess.
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Thank god (literally) that Lee van cleef’s evil twin brother was able to put an end to norm Macdonald’s reign of terror
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Aside from the longest sexual assault/rape scene in a movie I think I’ve seen, really unintentionally funny. I hope Palance and Van Cleef got a nice payday out of this.
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Apart from my dvd print being vhs quality, I kinda liked this. I had heard of this movie from a top 10 worst westerns and was pleasantly surprised. The story was simple and executed well, the pacing was good and the film was only as long as it needed to be. The ending I felt was very appropriate but also created some good tension and suspense.
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2025 Home Film Festival: Centennials (born in 1925) Aug = Lee Van Cleef spaghetti western double feature This was the silly or “circus” one. Nice opening and closing framing by the puppet show. I spit-take LOL’d when I saw the Leif Garrett credit. Was NOT expecting him… and he did pretty good even if his presence did take me out of it a little.
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Cool opening shot of a children’s puppet show curtain going up to reveal Jack Palance’s gang riding into town on horseback. After that it becomes pretty unpleasant. Really nasty Palance performance. The Van Cleef dual role gimmick is kinda fun and would be more enjoyable in a different movie. Some really wild hairstyle choices. Richard Boone is clearly not doing his own dialogue, and they didn’t even try and find a suitable sound-alike. There’s a lot of gonzo crash zooms…
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A spaghetti western with aging actors that is not that good!
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Lee van Cleef, Jack Palance & Director Gianfranco Parolini? Count me f’n in! Leider ist “Der Colt Gottes” kaum mehr als ein müder Vertreter eines zu diesem Zeitpunkt bereits im sterben liegenden Genres. Im selben Jahr wie der exzellente “Keoma” erschienen, bleibt von diesem Film vor allem van Cleefs heiße halblange Matte in Erinnerung. In einem netten Twist scheidet sein Charakter zwar in der Mitte aus, Lee kehrt aber kurz danach als sein eigener Bruder zurück. Der exakt den gleichen Bart…
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The dub is ridiculous, the extras are lame, and the movie doesn’t know what it wants to be. All the bad guys look pretty hard but they’re never utilized well and while there are moments and shots throughout that hint at something spectacular and cool, it just never quite takes off. It really is a bummer because Lee Van Cleef is always hard and he’s doing a hard Double Impact scenario here which actually looks pretty good when he’s doing…
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이런 무법의 시대에 안 태어난게 다행이다..
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Two things I didn’t realise going into this, first it’s a Golan & Globus production and second how late it was mate. This is nearly a decade on from the spaghetti western peak and Lee Van Cleef looks younger than he did in his late 60’s movies although he is greatly helped by a hair piece. I was drawn to this originally because I love the directors work on the original Sabata but after reading about the movie I realise this…
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Lee Van Cleef in two roles should’ve been cool, but the whole thing feels clunky and off. Jack Palance is the only one who really brings any energy, he’s fun to watch. Kinda trashy, kinda fun.
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there must be a god. because he’s laughing at this movie with me
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Terrible movie but I smiled for 97 straight minutes watching Fr. Lee Van Cleef kill sinners
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One of the most bizarre and unhindged Spaghetti Western I’ve ever seen. Produced by the duo Golam-Globus a few years before they founded Canon Films, it was shot in that godforsaken land that is the “State of Israel”. In a certain sense, this allows the viewer to enjoy a different landscape compared to the usual images of Spain (mainly Almeria and the desert of Las Tabernas), Abruzzo or the countryside outside Rome that generally characterize italian productions of the time.…
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Diamante Lobo February 1 1976 The Clayton gang kills a man in Juno City. A priest rides out to confront them. His only helper is a little boy who desperately needs a hair cut. Can the boy find a barber? ‘Sorry to destroy your slumber, gentlemen.’ The direction by Parolini shows some spirit, but the script is DOA. You might get some enjoyment out of the unusual looking locations. Palance and Van Cleef are into it – maybe. Hard to…
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Mine is the vengeance, sayeth the lord. “God’s Gun” is a late addition to the spaghetti western genre, although technically, it doesn’t qualify as one since it was filmed entirely in Israel for Golan-Globus Productions. By 1976, the spaghetti western was struggling, and this film was the second of two movies shot in Israel starring Lee Van Cleef and Leif Garrett, the first being “Kid Vengeance.” Sam Clayton (Jack Palance) and his gang ride into Juno City with chaos in…
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Ein Spätwestern, bei dem vieles nicht so recht zusammenpassen will. Einerseits bemüht man sich um Modernität – etwa durch wackelige Kameraeinstellungen –, andererseits bedient der Film klassische Western-Tropes und erzählt einmal mehr das Motiv der wehrlosen Frauen. Der Soundtrack orientiert sich zwar am traditionellen Westernstil, wird jedoch immer wieder von einem schrillen Gekreische durchbrochen, das den Film unnötig anstrengend macht. Die Handlung um den Pfarrer und seinen Bruder – beide gespielt von Lee van Cleef – wirkt wenig originell und wird letztlich nur durch die herrlich überzeichnete Finalszene in der Kirche noch halbwegs gerettet.
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Once again this film is best when Lee Van Cleef is onscreen. The other parts of the film range from pretty decent to not exactly appealing, especially the extended sequence where the Clayton gang try forcing themselves on several women which was just ick
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CCultpix 3 月 18, 2025
Italian-Israeli Spaghetti and Matzo (Macho?) Balls western, with Lee Van Cleef as the twin brother of a murdered priest forced to defend a small town against Jack Palance’s bandits. In May 1976 Richard Boone told an interviewer, “I’m starring in the worst picture ever made.” Kosher Kowboys!
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A very poor western movie, this movie’s biggest sin is that the main cast has been dubbed by someone else.
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One the worst westerns I’ve seen so far the only thing I like about this movie was how Jack Palance acted so unhinged in it. But don’t take my word for it watch it yourself if you don’t believe me
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Double Van Cleef? I’m in. Also appreciate how unhinged Palance is in this.
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I ain’t getting no younger. Time just goes by and then… then one day… one day you just get older and suddenly… you find yourself… all alone. God’s Gun is a late Italo western with Lee Van Cleef and Jack Palance produced by Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan before they created Cannon. I was instantly hyped, but my expectations were way too high I guess. The story is a collection of standard western tropes, but that’s totally fine. The main…
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Ufff, Lee Van Cleef con una peluca de pelo largo es tan 💋 lamentablemente no sale lo suficiente para quitarle lo aburrida que esta la peli most memorable line – “pero que te pasa por la cabeza chico? este es mudo y te lo tomas por el culo” BARS
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shit actually sucked, couldn’t get through it, why was there like a 17 minute rape sequence followed by literally another rape scene.
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Jack palance is so fun to watch!!! This movie is not very good though. I like when the priest ghost dramatically appears and the soundtrack goes DONGGGGGG
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this wasn’t that good but i got to see lee van cleef in a very obvious wig being a gun toting preacher and i think thats kind of beautiful
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Definitely near the bottom of the barrel when it comes to spaghetti westerns, God’s Gun isn’t particularly good but I was amused if nothing else. Lee Van Cleef is fantastic as always and plays a double role while Sybil Danning is a little underutilized but does what she can. Jack Palance is the main villain and honestly he’s so drunk off his ass that he should be awful but he’s not, just totally off kilter that it strangely works in…
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Antes de que los inefables Golan y Globus dieran el salto a EEUU y fundaran la productora Cannon tuvieron sus pinitos de cine desde Europa, tal y como demuestra este intento de spaghetti western rodado en Israel con coproducción italiana. La propuesta es delirante y, entonces, uno se ilusiona: una pandilla de bandidos (liderada nada menos que por Jack Palance) ataca un pueblo, desde donde sólo se les opone el cura local (que no es otro más que Lee Van…
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“Hi, honey. Take a look what’s happenin’ now. Things is takin’ a change for the better.” – Jack Clayton.
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English Version below … God’s Gun (1976) Ekdach Haelohim Diamante Lobo Der Colt Gottes Zwei Brüder … Einer nahm das Kreuz … Der andere nahm die Waffe. Rache ist sein einziges Gebot! Sam Claytons gesetzlose Gang terrorisiert die Bürger der Grenzstädte. Der Schatten der skrupellosen Bande fällt auch über Juno City, wo Jenny, Sams ehemalige Geliebte, einen Salon betreibt. Dieser wird zum Stützpunkt der Clayton Gang. Als die Gesetzlosen schliesslich den Sheriff und sogar den Pater der Stadt töten, scheint…
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The mastery of Lee van cleef is unmatched. Love this movie and it’s bad corny dialogue and all. Gotta love the Italian western genre for this one
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I had low expectations going in as this film has a pretty poor reputation. Maybe it caught me in the right mood, but I rather enjoyed it. The cast is good — including Lee Van Cleef as twins, one a gunslinger, one a priest, and Jack Palance on particularly nasty form — and it’s well directed by Parolini. The final act is especially well done with Van Cleef’s gunslinger character dressing up as his deceased brother to scare the bejesus out of the bad guys who killed the padre.
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Needing something cozy last night, was really cool and fun. Love lee van cleef
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T-t-twins?! Last 30 minutes were badass.
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I liked the premise but not the execution so much. Lee Van Cleef plays a double role as a preacher and his gunslinging brother.
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Lee Van Cleef has a twin, Leif Garrett is mute, and Jack Palance cackles his way through the movie. Entertaining western nothing noteworthy.
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Bridging the gap between the golden era of spaghetti westerns and the tin era of Cannon Films and their dumb-as-dogshit shoot-’em-ups, this movie is sloppy in execution of some genuinely fun ideas. It sure as hell feels like a Cannon film, straight out of the later Death Wish sequels. There’s a lot of gratuitous casual rape, lots of dopey violence, and a plot that stretches credulity at every turn. It feels edited by a sweaty, sentient pile of cocaine and…
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Vater John (Lee van Cleef) ist Pfarrer in der kleinen Stadt Juno. Alles ist friedlich bis eines Tages die Gang um Sam Clayton (Jack Palance) auftaucht. Nach einem Banküberfall wollen sie “nur” etwas im lokalen Saloon feiern. Bei einem Pokerspiel eskaliert die Situation und Jess Clayton (Robert Lipton) tötet einen Mitspieler. Die anderen schauen alle weg: Clayten Senior argumentert: “jeder hat gesehen es war Notwehr”. Dennoch verziehen sich die Claytons. Der Sheriff ist froh nichts zu müssen und Jenny (Sybil…
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Not one, but two Lee Van Cleefs and a Jack Palance… of course this goes pretty hard.
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Lee Van Cleef and Jack Palance? Say no more.
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‘God’s Gun’ is a fairly late entry in the spaghetti western genre that was on its deathbed in the late 70s, produced by Cannon Films as an Italian co-production and shot in Israel. It’s one of two westerns Cannon produced back to back that starred Lee Van Cleef and teen singer and actor Leif Garrett and both of them usually get a pretty bad rap. Maybe my expectations were reasonably low going into this, but I thought it was pretty…
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Surprisingly bad! Boring and then there’s like an extended rape montage it’s kind of wild. Lee Van Cleef does his best here but man is it just kind of nonsense. At times I was wondering if it was meant to be a satire of the spaghetti western. Actor Richard Boone apparently was quoted as saying “I’m starring in the worst picture ever made. The producer is an Israeli and the director is Italian, and they don’t speak. Fortunately it doesn’t…
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Lee Van Cleef and Jack Palance together in a western? What more could you ask for , but I found this revenge story a bit sluggish. 5/10
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This Israeli/Italian co-production follows evil Sam Clayton (Jack Palance) and his gang as they terrorize the town of Juno City. Father John (Lee Van Cleef) tries to drive them out, but they assassinate him, so John’s twin brother Lewis (also Lee Van Cleef) must come up with a plan to kill all the wicked Claytons. As a western, this film is pretty slow and often downright boring. Fortunately, Palance is chewing up the scenery and his smile is always a…
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“Mine is the vengeance, sayeth the Lord.” As far as western cinema goes, the only thing more obvious than saying that Jack Palance makes a great villain is stating that Lee Van Cleef makes a great hero… two different great heroes, in this case. Don’t believe that stereotypically American sounding “Frank Kramer” directorial credit in the main title sequence for one second, God’s Gun is a classic prototypical Spaghetti Western, directed by the great Gianfranco Parolini, from the twilight of…
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This was an entertaining movie, but not a very good movie. Van Cleef’s acting was very understated compared to Palance’s over-the-top acting. That makes this a very uneven film.
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I went for this expecting a late Euro western as it is a final team up between Sabata’s Gianfranco Parolini and Lee Van Cleef, but it turned out to be an early Golan/Globus production shot in Israel that doesn’t feel very Italian despite the talent, taste for cruelty and extended flashbacks. Van Cleef gets to play twin brothers, a priest and a gunman, so he can barely bother twice, but he is still much better than co-star Jack Palance at…
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Blind buy to being my total to the free shipping threshold on the kino spring sale. I won’t lie and pretend this is a great movie, it’s clearly on a different level that, say, the dollars trilogy or Django and the like, but I also do not I think it’s as bad as everyone makes it out to be. I think it’s a perfectly enjoyable, silly at times spaghetti. My true rating is probably in-between 2.5-3, but I’m rounding up.
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I did not appreciate the random screaming effects throughout the film
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LLiam Baldwin 2 月 29, 2024
Moral of the story: if you try to stop lee van cleef from being goated he will just come back goater Some of the most fun music ive heard in an italian western thus far and fun cinematography as well. Too bad it has way too much rape and a dumbass kid who i hate
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It’s got the somewhat bad acting, the awkward cinematography (like the boy looking at the camera instead of at the floor, where the body was), as well as the general cheapness, like not even trying to make Lee Van Cleef’s characters look a little different from each other But Lee Van Cleef is always a joy to watch, the bang-bang is also pretty enjoyable, and the climax is just amazing
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The most batshit crazy episode of “Bonanza” ever made.
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Watching Lee is spectacular but there are moments when the camera spins around making the scene look a little weird. I really liked it and it was funny when Lewis put on his brother’s cassock and started scaring Clayton’s mutts. The ending left me satisfied, Sam deserved to die and as Jenny said, he deserved to be alone and die alone. And Johnny is so cute, with his long blond hair.
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Few things delight me more than unexpectedly seeing “A Golan-Globus Production” at the start of a film, because I know I’m in for some entertainingly sloppy filmmaking. That’s certainly present here, a spaghetti Western shot in Israel, where they’re clearly trying to jump on the bandwagon without knowing how or without realizing the genre is dying out. Lee Van Cleef gets to have some fun playing twin brothers, though he doesn’t get enough time with either, and Jack Palance suffers…
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That a really dumb spaghetti western. But there some really good shot now and there
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A local priest turns into a vigilante after a crew comes and causes a problem and death in his town but goes and gets the one who did the crime ! Soon after they come back and kill him and the young kid in town that was always with the priest is shook to a mute ! He then runs off to find the priest brother and get help ! Then they team up to take down the bad guys!…
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A late (post?) spaghetti western with Lee van Cleef starring as both priest and gunfighter (in a great all denim look). Not much here to be honest.
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mullets are a character in this movie
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So bad even the bad spaghetti westerns look good. Only good thing is the over the top performances of western greats Lee Van cleef and Jack palance.
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De manual y no en el bien sentido. El conflicto no está bien llevado y solo la levantan un poco Lee Van Cleef y Jack Palance.
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A pretty decent spaghetti western. It has cheap written all over it. I think the entire crew couldn’t have exceeded 20 people. Some guy said to a bunch of his friends, “Alright, guys, let’s drive a few miles out there into the open and shoot a Western.” Heck, even the freaking Mexicans are all white. They didn’t even bother to get some folks who look the part. The rest of the cast seemed non-actors too. Except for the three or…
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Repulsive
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Solid western, lee even a double role together with palance, can‘t go wrong
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not the best of the spaghetti westerns but jack palance seemed like he was blackout drunk on set every day and lee van cleef plays a set of twins so in my book that’s all you need really. has some absolutely amazing moments and shootouts
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Warrior priest Lee Van Cleef versus Jack Palance’s gang of outlaw psychopaths SHOULD be a slam dunk of a Western, but that’s not really what we get here. Stagey and slow, Parolini – who had a pretty good run with the Sabata franchise – is asleep behind the wheel aside from a few cool shots. Van Cleef does his best and is never not a badass, but this is mostly a wasted opportunity.
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Horrible English dub on Tubi.
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Full of baffling Golan/Globus carelessness in every department, but when a movie ends with Lee Van Cleef in a priest’s garb basically staring a gang of thugs into submission to a nice morricone-y wail, it wasn’t all for nothing. And I liked the oddly touching regret and defeat Jack Palance is allowed to play at the graveyard.
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Not the worst spaghetti western but definitely low in the rankings. I don’t know hot they managed to get such poor performances out of such good actors. Something is just off about this film.
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This movie wasn’t good, but that stupid “BABABABABABABA” sound effect they use every 30 seconds took it to another level of awful.
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B
boring
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The mighty team of Golan-Globus and a damn good cast that includes the goddess herself, Sybil Danning (who does briefly pop a tit), team up for one of the goofiest Westerns in recent memory.
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Wild West Summer 2023 28. A Western With Either The Words Gun, Shoot/Shot, Or Bullets In Their Title Summer of Trash 2023 44. Watch a movie with a rock star/pop star. No movies with Elvis. One of those infamously bad spaghetti westerns, Richard Boone is said to have walked off the set claiming he “just walked off the worst picture ever made.” While that may be a great exaggeration, this movie is still pretty bad and only worth the watch…
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Lee Van Cleef & Jack Palance in the same western yep this gets a watch. Not a bad watch some great one liners, especially liked a monologue Palance’s character has about getting old. Van Cleef plays a gun slingin priest which is also a pretty great Western trope 🤠
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I wanted to like this film, but certain elements pushed me out. A band of outlaws roams the countryside and does whatever they want. Mainly robbing banks, murder, and an absurd amount of raping. After no one steps up to face the outlaws, a preacher takes up arms and brings in one of the outlaws, which eventually gets him killed. Good thing he has a twin that is not so righteous. Not terrible, but there is a group rape scene that isn’t even graphic but lasts for fucking ever. Learn how to edit.
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The whole thing comes together like a really bad (old) PSA. I actually dont know how this came to be an actual film instead of an independant art project. Theres just very little thought put into the characters and their dialogue. I mean, Theres quite literally a “little johnny”. And then there’s everyones hair…
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Uber low budget and acting was not very good at all. Yet Lee Van Cleef can still be a badass in the thick of the cheese. The showdown was also amazing. Definitely not the best but story was strong and kind of different for a western. I liked it.
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Interesting enough story with a great gimmick of Van Cleef playing brothers. Palance was great as the hammy heavy. The Kino Lorber released a cut where Richard Boone and Palance are dubbed, which really kind of kneecaps this.
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God’s Gun is really bad. Pretty much everything but the scenery works. Well… The score wasn’t bad neither. Those two elements paired with the face of Lee van Cleef are often enough for me to make it to the end. But man, the acting, writing, editing, it is all so hilariously bad. Nobody seems to be really trying. Palace has never been worse. I hope. On the other hand, most of them do seem to be having a good time.…
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a clunkily thrown together and often badly edited and acted mess that comes in very late after the peak of the spaghetti western boom an awful sexual assault scene, rapid changes in tone, palance chewing the walls in the worst way possible and a hell of a lot of the film having a topless 15 year old yeah, one to avoid unless you’re an avid cannon or spaghetti western fan
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What a waste of Lee Van Cleef and Sybil Danning in a lame Western! Director Gianfranco Parolini’s Italian-Israeli sort of Spaghetti Western God’s Gun (1976) is a miserable viewing experience. An unbelievably cheap production with poor television quality sets, fake red paint for blood, wretched dubbing, and sexist writing. The rape sequences are disgusting. It has insane sound choices and absurd storytelling. You’ll laugh out loud, it is so bad. God’s Gun is such a terrible movie, you’ll think it…
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Flick #15 of CINEMONSTER’s MannVanuary Deaux. My List of Films that I’ll be watching (or have watched) plus links to those Reviews can be found here: Slappy McGee’s 2nd MannVanuary 2023. …also considered… Film #05 of my 2023 – Clearing Out My DVD Case Initiative. *************** A fairly solid spaghetti western starring Lee Van Cleef in a dual role. This one also co-stars Jack Palance as the “bad guy” and a young Leif Garrett who would go on to become…
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I don’t know what happened during the making of this Golan & Globus western, but Richard Boone walked off the movie at some point. That would explain why he’s dubbed, but why are Lee Van Cleef and Jack Palance also revoiced? Was this shot MOS and everyone involved just decided they had had enough of Menahem Golan and didn’t return for the dubbing? In any event, wondering what went down behind-the-scenes is more intriguing than the film the Go-Go Boys delivered,…
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Legitimately one of the worst westerns I’ve ever seen. The laundry list of issues this film has almost isn’t worth listing due to how wretched the film itself is. From it’s depiction of rape and it’s attempt at sympathy for a rapist to the bafflingly bad editing and script. Not even the pairing of Lee Van Cleef and Jack Palance could save this absolute stinker. Van Cleef is fine, and Palance is mildly entertaining but doesn’t deliver a performance you could describe as good. Don’t waste your time or money on this film like I did. A great example of blind buying gone wrong.
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From Gianfranco Parolini, the writer/director who brought us the original Sartana and Sabata movies, and a late-in-his-Italian-career Lee Van Cleef comes an utterly generic spaghetti western co-starring Jack Palance (who clearly doesn’t GAF), young Leif Garrett (who is really the lead), and Sybil Danning (I think her only western?), produced by Cannon Group’s Golan & Globus. Watchable, but not up to the level of If You Meet Sartana… Pray for Your Death or Return of Sabata, so only spaghetti and Cannon…
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Dubbing Richard Boone is just cruel.
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Westcember #5 Van Cleef is the only redeeming quality. Non-Van Cleef completionists stay away. Very awful movie.
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Jack Palance’s gang of bandits takes over a small western town, and the only line of defense is gun-wielding preacher Lee Van Cleef and plucky teen Leif Garrett. When one of them gets gunned down, all hope is lost for the townsfolk… or is it? It seems I simply will not learn my lesson about watching early Golan-Globus productions. They may just be my least favorite filmmakers of the ’70s. I’m not a huge Cannon fan in general, but at…
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Watched the Kino print and it was better except the dubbing still detracts.
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Gianfranco Parolini waves a camera all over this predictable but fun western. Jack Palance steals the show as the head of the evil Clayton family while Lee Van Cleef is charming enough as a wigged preacher with a mysterious past. Surprising at times at how good the script is but the draw is clearly Palance who manages to walk the fine line between over the top bad guy and somehow worthy of empathy.
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Watched: Tubi AU This is from what they call the “ Golan-Globus Pre-Cannon” era. This is the era before Golan and Globus bought The Cannon Group, but produced films for them. It has a very old Lee Van Cleef and an even older Jack Palance. It contains: – The trope of a young kid whose called “Johnny”. Kids in Westerns always seen to be called Johnny. – A gang of bad guys called “The Clayton’s”. The bad cattle ranchers always…
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CCHRISTOPHER REED 10 月 11, 2022
Blu-ray, Kino
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Just for starters; Richard Boone has been dubbed back into English. Holy nonsense. You know I bet every English actor has been dubbed. Which makes this print ridiculous. Obviously this movie meant to be better, but it just isn’t. Even a properly dubbed print would probably be lackluster. Just less so. BD_OWN_NEED_REWATCH
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For just 10 minutes of the film’s final act, excellence shown through as Priest Van Cleef went full Sabata on some fools. As for the rest of the movie…pure garbage. Weak ending, poor cinematic quality, the worst of Spaghetti Western tropes, a METRIC FUCKTON of rape, under utilization of Lee Van Cleef…the list goes on. Also I can only assume that Jack Palance and Richard Boone were contractually obligated to act as piss-poor as possible, because both of their performances were uncharacteristically awful.
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A good idea not so well executed. Still an acceptable late Lee van Cleef spaghetti western with a double role. Too bad, this could have been a really great contribution to the subgenre if it had been done a little more professionally. Still pretty nice score as always with the Italowestern.
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Kino Lorber blu ray
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From my Movie Churches Blog posted on June 15, 2022, a combined post with the film The Deadly Companions: Some say the term “adult Western” originated in 1953 with the release of Paramount Pictures’ Shane. The studio was trying to distinguish their film from the more simplistic entries in the genre such as the Roy Rogers and Gene Autry Westerns where the good guys always beat the bad guys in a fair fight and often sang a cheery song as…
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Inhalt: Der gemeine Bandenchef Clayton (Jack Palance) und seine Diebesbande werden von dem gewieften Pater John (Lee van Cleef) in Schach gehalten. Der Ordensbruder hält nichts von den Rüpeln und wird einfach von ihnen über den Haufen geschossen. Nun soll der Bruder des Priesters (auch van Cleef) den Toten rächen. . Fazit: Kleinod oder rein obskur? Der Italowestern war 1976 bereits am Sterben, und wurde trotzdem Opfer des Produzentengespanns Globus und Golan, die nicht aus Italien stammten, aber gerne noch…
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Um western spaghetti totalmente enlouquecido beirando o surrealismo. Um padre pistoleiro, um menino mudo matando bandidos, homens que aparecem para no instante serem mortos, estupro coletivo e tudo mais de insano que se pode imaginar dentro do gênero.
- Synopsis
- Priest turned vigilante Father John hunts down a gang of criminals, led by Sam Clayton, who killed a man in a local bar. On the gang's return to the town, they kill the priest, leaving a young parishioner Johnny behind. He now seeks revenge for the death of the holy man.
- Director
- Gianfranco Parolini
- Writer
- Gianfranco Parolini, John Fonseca
- Studio
- Dunamis Cinematografica, Rovi, The Irwin Yablans Company, Golan-Globus Productions
- Country
- Israel, Italy
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1976
- Runtime
- 97 mins
- Italy01 Feb 1976
- USA01 Mar 1977
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