Friday, June 30, 2023

Movie review - "A Town Called Bastard" (1971) **

 Once Sam Bronston went bust Phil Yordan found new blood out of the Scotia Group who invested in a bunch of films. A spaghetti Western shot in Spain it starts out with a confronting massacre led by Robert Shaw and Martin Landau then jumps forward in time to where Shaw is a priest (who sleeps with women) in the town run by a gun toting Telly Savalas. Stella Stevens turns up looking for revenge which is intriguing but the film wanders after that. We flashback to Shaw's life, and then Savalas is shot and the film loses momentum,  and Michael Craig pops up as a convincing bandito and it gets confusing when it should be a simple revenge tale.

Nice cinematography and some decent action and excellent cast.

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