Death Rides a Horse
Rewatched (a stellar new clean copy of) Guilio Petroni’s 1967 masterful western Death Rides a Horse. Good, Bad & The Ugly was the big influence on this film, as the two heros take turns chasing each other over the beautiful Spanish landscape standing in for the old west. I know that there are many references in Tarantino’s Kill Bill to this film, plus Tarantino copped some of the Ennio Morricone score, but I haven’t watched that much of Kill Bill. The film starts in a heavy rain, and ends in a sandstorm.
Stars Lee Van Cleef and John Philip Law, who was also in Roger Vadim’s Barberella, Mario Bava’s Danger Diabolik and The Russian’s Are Coming, The Russian’s Are Coming. John Philip Law does best on screen when he is silent.