Companeros is a 1970 Zapata western directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Jack Palance, and Fernando Rey. The music is by Ennio Morricone. It takes place during the Mexican Revolution. The talent involved in this makes it worth checking out.
Slant Magazine gives it a positive review and says, "Aside from its palpable merits as a brilliantly mounted genre offering, Compañeros is virtually unique among this otherwise heterogeneous wild bunch because it so explicitly takes as its subject matter the philosophical and ethical nature of revolution." DVD Talk says, "As a production, Compañeros is fairly elaborate. The Techniscope photography is very attractive, and the whole enterprise is graced with a typically quirky Ennio Morricone score." SpaghettiWestern.net concludes, "often appears in Spaghetti fans' top ten lists and it's easy to see why. It is 2 hours of out and out viewing pleasure in anyone's language. Whether you think it's a real western or not."
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That is some film. Jack Palance was the only person I was familiar with and I got a bit confused a couple of times, but enjoyed it, regardless. Thanks for the review and the link.
ReplyDeleteFranco Nero is best known as the original Django. He is still active and worth looking for. Fernando Rey died back in 1994 and may be best known here for The French Connection and as Caspar in the 1977 Franco Zeffirelli Jesus of Nazareth TV miniseries. It always amazes me when films bring together such talent.
DeleteI'm so glad you liked it :)
I started it twice and it said server error before I even got to finding out if it had subtitles--LOL! Oh well. I tried. Could be my internet for sure because I've been having issues off and on. :)
ReplyDeleteOnce it gets started it's dubbed in English.
DeleteI love spaghetti westerns and enjoyed this one 😁. I hope you had a wonderful week! J 😊 x
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you liked it :)
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