Several pillars of society have robbed an Army safe containing $100,000 so they can buy the land upon which the coming railroad will be built. But they haven't reckoned on the presence of the master gunslinger, Sabata.
Oro sangriento, Сабата, Hé barátom, itt van Sabata!, סבאטה, 사바타, Sabata, o Homem que Veio para Matar, Sabata viene a matar, Sabata, salaperäinen ratsastaja, Σαμπάτα, ο τρομοκράτης του Ελ Πάσο, ซาบาต้า สิงห์ปืนไว, 一代枪王, ساباتا, Sabata - dræberen, Sabata Vadiler Hakimi, 西部悪人伝
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Lee Van Cleef is Sabata - an amoral gunslinger who rides into town just in time to rescue an army payroll from an elaborate heist, only to attempt to blackmail its perpetrators.
Every shot of Sabata seems meticulously pulled from a storyboard, with Marcello Giombini's upbeat and playful score setting the tempo for a rapid fire series of cutaways that never let up. Gianfranco Parolini (Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century) has crafted a film that feels as though it was completed before production began. There is an artificiality that comes with being constructed in cutaway set pieces, but it's still the closest that an Alberto Grimaldi production came to his earlier Dollars Trilogy. It's an odd tone, but…
Easily one of the best spaghetti westerners I’ve ever seen.
Not that I need another cinematic universe in my life but man it would’ve been cool to see Sabata, Django, and Sartana meet up with The Man With No Name. The movie would be an absolute blood bath and of course would have to be scored by Ennio Morricone.
And in a post credit scene they could’ve entered a bar where John Wayne, James Stewart, Gary Cooper, and Henry Fonda were playing poker. Only in my dreams.
Featuring the Wild West version of Call an Ambulance… But Not for Me!
Via the DVR recording a showing of this on HDNet Movies last month, I finally got to see Sabata as the lead when in the past, Django and three Sartana films were experienced—including one where Sabata appeared because copyright laws apparently don’t exist in Italy and instead of Lee Van Cleef or even Yul Brynner, the character was played by someone who resembled JOHN CENA. No shocker that this often echoed Sartana-- Gianfranco Parolini directed the initial entry in that series but then was passed over for subsequent installments, instead being handed this new franchise.
The film involves money stolen from a bank that villains wish to…
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"Life today is horse droppings." [translated]
I can't decide if Sabata is a superhero or a Looney Toon. Maybe both. Shortly before Sabata, Gianfranco Parolini wrote and directed The Three Fantastic Supermen, a clear DC rip-off that even steals the Superman font and stylization for the title on some posters, as well as a couple of Hercules films, so that might give us some indication of his inclinations as a filmmaker. In any case, Sabata feels like some combination of Superman and the Road Runner: I can almost picture him painting a fake road onto a wall and watching a crew of bandits drive straight into it, and then beating them all…
Director Gianfranco Parolini is a man I expect to encounter a few times during my Spaghetti Western adventure, and given that this is the first of five of his films that I own, what a great way to start! Produced by Italian legend Alberto Grimaldi, the man behind the likes of Leone's The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, and For a Few Dollars More, as well as Sollima's The Big Gundown and Corbucci's The Mercenary, he was also one of nearly a dozen producers on Scorsese's epic Gangs of New York, and you can see he attached himself to some iconic films over the years. So another Spaghetti Western starring Lee Van Cleef, and normal service is resumed from…
Having successfully kicked off the long-running Sartana series in 1968, director Gianfranco Parolini unexpectedly turned his back on that character to initiate what he hoped would be a new series about a Sartana-esque figure for producer Alberto Grimaldi. Grimaldi not only had the funds that would allow Parolini to make the movie he envisioned as he wrote the screenplay, but he also happened to represent Lee Van Cleef, who was set to star in the film. (According to Kevin Grant's excellent Any Gun Can Play, Sartana actor Gianni Garko believed that the chance to work with Van Cleef was the main reason the director jumped ship.)
Like Sartana, Van Cleef's Sabata is a well-dressed gunman of few words, with a…
If you love spaghetti westerns you may enjoy this movie more then me. I thought it was a Fist full of Dollars rip off.
It stared Lee Van Cleef as the title character. Sabata is almost a super natural gun fighter with a magic gun. He beats anyone who challenges him. There is no stakes for the character he's unbeatable. This was the first movie in a whole trilogy of films.
Van Cleef is good I suppose, the plot is very boring and hard to follow. The movie is overlong and I couldn't wait for it to be over.
Gianfranco Parolini’s Sabata (1969) upgrades the trickster gunslinging of the director’s Sartana by adding Lee Van Cleef, a banjo-rifle, a cane-gun, a four-shooter with a three-shooter in the grip, and lots of explosions. The story here is far from elegant or unique - a robbery, hired guns, mysterious drifters, double-crosses - but its Wild West action is always entertaining. The titular Sabata is quick with a gun but he’s even better with deceptions, traps, and trick-kills. The evil Stengal is a fun antagonist too, Franco Ressel playing the character like a smug and sadistic frontier-era Bond villain.
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Dougherty, irgendwo im Wilden Westen
Sabata, ehemaliger Offizier, erledigt Diebe die eine Bank überfallen haben. Im nachhinein erfahrt er das angesehene Bürger hinter dem Raub stecken, und erpresst sie mit seinem wissen. Diese hetzen Kopfgeldjäger auf Sabata, aber dieser ist mit allen Wassern gewaschen. Ein paar Freunde/Bekanntschaften stehen auch noch zu ihm.
Italo-Western mit einem schuss Humor von 1969, in dem Lee van Cleef und u.a. William Berger mitspielen. Lee van Cleef sehe ich immer wieder gerne, und dieser passt auch perfekt in die Rolle des Sabata's. Als eine art Gentleman mit ein paar schönen Gadgets, räumt er im Film auf und hat immer alles unter Kontrolle. Die anderen Charaktere gefielen mir auch, da…
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Honestly, the plot and story of this movie is....unexceptional, leaning towards bland at times. But Lee Van Cleef has charisma to spare, maybe not the traditional leading man charisma, but still in a world where if he's in the room, he's the one you notice. He's also got a few interesting friends/accomplices and a banjo wielding frenemy to spice things up. All this and a ton of shootouts, a man who can leap over tall buildings in a single bound, and a bad guy has this weird shoot out room set up in his house. It almost felt like Saw goes west. Rudimentary Saw, but points for reminding me of it.
Hey! Sabata! When I stop laughin', you're dead.
-Sharky
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly catapulted veteran actor Lee Van Cleef into bigger stardom then ever before as he went from being Clint Eastwood's costar in possibly the greatest western ever made, to starring in.... well slightly lesser known westerns of his own.
Director Gianfranco Parolini is no Sergio Leone, or even Giulio Petroni for that matter, but he makes no attempt to be either. His take on the spaghetti western is very camp, at times silly, but most of all fun and adventurous with lots of colorful and memorable characters.
Van Cleef indeed plays an anti-hero, but it's unlike the Eastwood characters we're used to and plays up…
“Ehi amico... c'è Sabata. Hai chiuso!”
Fresh off of the first Sartana entry (as the sequels were rightly left to Giuliano Carnimeo), Gianfranco Parolini came back with a much looser title. Sabata is one of the most enticing films of the genre, and one that gave birth to a much loved and reoccurring icon of the Spaghetti Western. It sees Parolini even reuniting with the great William Berger after only a year apart; and boy does Berger take on one of his finest roles here.
The premise follows a gang of thieves that rob a bank in order to afford a piece of a land. Little do they know, the violent bounty hunter Sabata (Lee Van Cleef) is hot on their trail, as…
