The stagecoach passengers tell him he is their friend, but Hud, unimpressed, answers that he hasn't got a single friend in this world.
Perhaps they have a point. He also has a distinctive way of riding a horse with one hand holding the reign, the other hovering near his holster as he sways in a sort of saddle dance. In the opening scene four young people, looking like hippies, are dragged through the mud by Mexican bandits after a stagecoach robbery. The Specialists is a three-nation co-production. It’s an opportunity for first-time viewers to discover, and for fans to revisit. There’s liberal use of framing that sets tiny figures against sublime landscapes, juxtaposed with tight close-ups and dramatic zooms instead of cuts. One of the Mexicans throws a coin between them, saying that the one who will return it, will be saved (Barboni would use this idea again in Trinity is still my name). The Specialists (1969) BDRip | 1h 45mn | 720x306 | MKV AVC@952Kbps | AAC@72Kbps 1CH | 0.80 GiB BDRip 720p | 1h 45mn | 1280x544 | MKV AVC@7166Kbps | FLAC@880Kbps 2CH | 6.42 GiB BDRip 1080p | 1h 45mn | 1920x816 | MKV AVC@11.5Mbps | FLAC@880Kbps 2CH | 14.94 GiB Language: English, Italiano, Commentary | Genre: Western | Subtitles: English A chain mail-clad gunfighter contends with a … Except that it concludes with what must be the best ever shot of a hero riding off into the sunset! This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again. He’s fine in the lead role of Hud, though he doesn’t get a lot to do that shows off any real range. The camera follows the leader of the Mexicans inside a house, where he is surprised by a man dressed in black, who kills all bandits and is identified by the stagecoach passengers as the famous gunslinger Hud. FRAME RATED is an online publication focusing on the world of film and television. When Corbucci started to work on this movie, it was clear that there would be no radical political change in Europe. Several cast members were reunited in Poliziotteschi movies, as Gastone Moschin and Mario Adorf would again star together in Fernando Di Leo’s Milano Calibro 9 (1972). He’s pretty sure his brother was framed for the crime to cover-up a larger conspiracy. By the mid-1960s the Italian film industry had become a well-oiled machine almost entirely fuelled by the drive to exploit genres. This ‘cross-pollination’ is already evident in The Specialists, part-funded by German production company Neue Münchener Lichtspielkunst GmbH (a.k.a Neue Emelka)—not to be confused with the much larger Münchener Lichtspielkunst AG, favoured by the likes of Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrik (which was then known as Bavaria Film Studios). We also use Facebook pixel to provide social media features and to analyse traffic to the site. The tall, handsome Hud tells them that he has no friends and they are left to watch as he rides off alone. Both Corbucci and Hallyday, though espousing libertine left-wing views, had been openly critical of the rising hippy movement, Corbucci saw them as a sort of cult that identified through mutual resentment and that, separated from societal norms, could be easily perverted into lawlessness. The film was shot in French, under the title Le Specialiste. I thought it was fun and hugely effective, but some have criticised the ending for being OTT or ‘out-of-place’. However, the first hint of the political subtext is literally thrown-in right at the start when one of the desperadoes tosses a silver dollar into a muddy pool. This is made clear in an odd scene when the sheriff argues with them over ownership of a fish he’s caught. A chain mail-clad gunfighter contends with a pacifist sheriff, a seductive banker, a one-armed Mexican bandit, corrupt businessmen and hippies while trying to learn the secret of the money allegedly stolen by his lynched brother. The mix of mass nudity, philosophy, political commentary and satire seems more like a prototype for El Top (1970), Alejandro Jodorowsky’s infamous ‘acid Western’, but without spoiling things too much I can say no more. Filmed in Italy, it makes great use of the dramatic Dolomite Mountains as its location plus the existent wild west sets at the famous Elios studios in Rome, the epicentre of ‘Filone’—the Italian Pulp Cinema Industry.

a remarkably successful French rock artist, who sold over 80 million copies of his albums. It’s the first noteworthy entry into the modest filmography of the French rock star Johnny Hallyday, who was already used to being in front of a camera, though usually performing as a singer or, more or less, playing himself. (Though I’m sure his teeth are far too bright and even to be historically accurate!). The Specialists follows the successful template set out by another Sergio—Leone—in his ‘Dollar Trilogy’, beginning with A Fistful of Dollars (1964), coupled with Duccio Tessari’s first Ringo film, A Pistol for Ringo (1965). This all culminates in a scene with Halliday burning the money of the people of Blackstone before their very eyes. Thanks to Halliday’s presence, the film was very successful in France, where it even spawned a comic strip, but not in Italy, where the censor made so many cuts that Corbucci's intentions were ruined completely. The Specialists remains a superior example of the Spaghetti Western. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful. It was an international co-production between Italy, France and West Germany. They argue about who’s going to be their scapegoat when the victim’s brother finally comes to town. The town's sheriff is a fool who faces El Diablo unarmed. Halliday was (and still is!) It’s not a difficult case to crack, but there’s more than a few twists, turns, and double bluffs to keep it interesting. The central plot is concerned with a figure from the past on a quest for just vengeance and could well have prototyped Clint Eastwood’s later attempt to reinvent the genre with High Plains Drifter (1973). The gang of four young peasants we met scrabbling for a silver dollar in the mud are, indeed, intended to be stand-ins for contemporary hippies. From Sergio Corbucci, the legendary director of Django, Navajo Joe, The Great Silence, Companeros and The Mercenary comes Gli Specialisti (The Specialists, aka Drop Them or I’ll Shoot), a thrilling spaghetti western starring French music and film great Johnny Hallyday (The Man on the Train, Détective, Vengeance).. In many ways, it was a film factory like the post-war Hollywood studio system, or perhaps Hammer films at Elstree in the UK.

This is one aspect of a major discourse that runs through the narrative: the comparative value of actions over words. You can have fun looking for other references to classic westerns throughout the rest of the film—like the glimpse of a clock showing a quarter-to-noon in the build-up to a decisive showdown…. The Blackstone scenes were shot in the Elios studios, Rome. Sheriff Gedeon is a sort of pacifist who’s outlawed guns in Blackstone. The next big ‘Filone’ would be Poliziottesch— gritty crime thrillers inspired by the German Krimi genre. But Dario Di Palma's photography of the Alpine locations is superb and the action scenes are intense, sudden and beautiful, among the best of Corbucci's career. (4) Who are those specialists?

It certainly doesn’t take a Sherlock to work out who the villains are and anyone paying attention will be well ahead of the final reveal. An outrageous western, featuring pot-smoking hippies and a hero wearing a bulletproof vest, starring French rock star Johnny Hallyday as a gunslinger looking for the people responsible for his brother's death. The great Hud!” cries the cowardly gambler, Cabot (Gino Pernice), one of the stagecoach passengers. It seems it’s Hud’s brother who got the blame for a recent bank robbery that’s left them all financially unstable. SYNOPSIS. There’s a sort of detective thread woven through the narrative that involves clues and deciphering the code of an ingenious secret map.
The other female lead is taken by Françoise Fabian, who not long before had appeared in her first prominent international role as Charlotte in Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour (1967). Much has been made of the incongruous hippy styles of the youth but that reference, whilst certainly intentional, isn’t made clear until much later. It’s like a remake of Shane (1953) compressed into the pre-title sequence! With its pot-smoking hippies and hero with a bulletproof vest, it's also the most outrageous of the quartet. Likewise, its performance in France and Germany the following year was nothing special and it failed to get much attention from other territories until a trimmed and dubbed English-language cut was given UK distribution in 1973. © 2004-2019 THE SPAGHETTI WESTERN DATABASE. This page was last edited on 28 September 2019, at 20:00. Thus, setting the scene for a rather intense fight when the unarmed Hud must take on several knife-wielding assailants in the Saloon. If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. According to Halliday, the script was written - scene for scene - on the set, which could well explain some of its intricacies and anomalies. The project was abandoned and Corbucci decided to make a different film, using only a few ideas of the unfinished project (for instance the bulletproof vest).


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