The third act/resolution feels rushed and silly, and it could have done with more Sydney Greenstreet, but it’s still a hugely enjoyable Hitcockian-noir B-movie. Bogie is in ‘In A Lonely Place’ mode: where he’s still Bogie, but the dark side is so prominent we can’t quite root for him. Cool flick.
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Barquero 1970
I think this film is hugely underrated, and easily holds its own with the just-below-the-top-tier entries in the Spaghetti Western genre it’s often mistakenly lumped in with. It certainly plays up to those comparisons at times, specifically the scene in which Cleef and Oates first set eyes on each other across a river, with each (increasingly close-up) facial shot accompanied by a soaring, suitably dramatic Dominic Frontiere score.
But what it lacks in originality or ambition (the entire plot is…
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