Black Killer is a 1971 Spaghetti Western starring Klaus Kinski. This is not by far the best spaghetti western out there but has Kinski, so it's well worth the 90 minutes you'll spend with it. Even more so if you're a particular fan of the female derriere, which is viewable at the drop of a hat -or should I say skirt.
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...Kinski is new to me.
ReplyDeleteOh! He's priceless. I'll watch anything he's in. from wikipedia: "He appeared in more than 130 films, and was a leading role actor in the films of Werner Herzog, including Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Woyzeck (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982), and Cobra Verde (1987). He also appeared in many Spaghetti Westerns, such as For a Few Dollars More (1965), A Bullet for the General (1966), The Great Silence (1968)..." He was in Doctor Zhivago (1965). He had a tragic personal life, including a short commitment to a mental hospital, and when he died at age 65 in 1991 only 1 of his 3 children attended the funeral. Werner Herzog had a love/hate relationship with him, casting him in films but also threatening his life more than once. According to wikipedia, "In 1980, Kinski refused the lead villain role of Major Arnold Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark, telling director Steven Spielberg, "This script is a yawn-making, boring pile of shit"", so although I've always thought of him as an actor who'd take any role offered (I mean, how else do you explain some of the movies he was in) apparently he drew the line at that one. Go figure lol! His film credits go from 1948 to 1989: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Kinski_filmography
DeleteI'd rather look at cowboy butts. 😺
ReplyDeleteWell, yeah ;)
DeleteTo be honest, I can't get past the title. It sounds horribly racist to me, although I think I know you well enough that is not your intent.
ReplyDeleteOh, dear, I can't imagine how the title could sound "horribly racist". As I google for possibilities I can't find a single example of that being raised as an issue...
DeleteBlack people are being killed all over the country, and you don't see how I could associate that with the title? I'm not talking about the content of the film, but I have an issue with the title, dear.
DeleteYou're the only one I can find who has ever raised this as an issue with this -seriously, I can't find a single time this has been raised as an issue, and I've been googling off and on all day- so no, I don't really see where you got to so "horribly racist" that you "can't get past the title". But then, being white, I'm poorly equipped to judge whether or not a thing is racist. Italian Italian-language spaghetti westerns aren't typically subjects of this particular criticism. I'm really at a loss...
DeleteMaybe I'm reading too much into this Black Lives Matter issue.
DeleteI support the Black Lives Matter movement. I don't see a connection here.
DeleteI was reading it as people were killing blacks. I must have read it all wrong.
DeleteAh. There are rarely any black people in spaghetti westerns. This film is fairly typical of the genre.
DeleteThank you for sharing. Happy Morning.
ReplyDeleteHappy morning :)
DeleteMy late husband was a fan of spaghetti westerns so I went along with him and saw several. This Klaus Kinski had a very interesting face, in a way, to me (my French side,) very German. Did he ever play a WW2 German soldier? I think it would have been a fit.
ReplyDeleteIn at least one film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Time_to_Love_and_a_Time_to_Die he plays a WW2 German soldier. He does have the look and probably had more roles like that. He is fascinating to watch and is one of the actors I'll watch anytime I see him. He was German, and he served in WW2.
DeleteIt sounds horrible to me, sorry, you know I am not a fan of this genre. Valerie
ReplyDeletelol, I understand. I've no idea why these spaghetti westerns appeal to me so much while the shows everybody else seems to like leave me cold. I still have never watched Downton Abbey, for example...
DeleteAgain I marvel how you find all these films. Interesting how woman are portrayed in these films.
ReplyDeleteAh, women in film is a topic I'd love to hear discussed. I don't know enough to say anything, of course, but that's a panel discussion that'd be fascinating to me.
DeleteAbout your comment on the T for Tuesday blog this week: Thank you for trying to explain why the InLinkz take-over of blog posts is offensive and predatory, and why this has nothing to do with cookies. I also tried to explain this view in my comment last week, but we seem to be regarded as cranks who are just being negative, when we are trying to say something with substance, and trying to be respectful, not at all meaning to make a trivial personal attack. I'm just going to drop the subject outside of this comment to you.
ReplyDeleteYou always recommend the most fascinating films!
be well... mae at maefood.blogspot.com
I was surprised not to see more people take issue with how it worked, but was certainly surprised at how our attempts to explain why we weren't participating this time were met. Next time I'll know better than to offer my opinion ;)
DeleteThank you for your words of support :)
I watch a lot of obscure movies lol