Companeros 1970  R, 118 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Cast: Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Jack Palance, Fernando Rey, Iris Berben, Francisco Bodalo, Karin Schubert, Jose Bodalo, Eduardo Fajardo, Gino Pernice, Jesus Fernandez, Gerard Tichy
This spaghetti Western is set in Mexico during a time of revolt in the early 1900s. Yodlaf (Franco Nero), a mercenary and weapons dealer, joins revolutionary El Vasco (Tomas Milian) whose mission is to free Professor Xantos (Fernando Rey) and his students being held hostage by Americans in Texas. Yodlaf's real mission, however, is to find a cache of gold, and the professor knows where it is. Along the way they must deal with a gunslinger: wooden-handed, pot-smoking John (Jack Palance) and his falcon.
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Django 1966  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Western
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Cast: Franco Nero, Jose Bodalo, Loredana Nusciak, Eduardo Fajardo, Angel Alvarez, Gino Pernice, Simon Arriaga, Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia, Erik Schippers, Rafael Albaicin
This is the first of several "spaghetti Westerns" that chronicle the adventures of superhero Django (Franco Nero). Django arrives in a Mexican town dragging a coffin and is immediately caught in the middle of two warring factions: Yankee KKK members and Mexican gangsters. Lots of violence, especially after Django opens the coffin and takes out his Gatling gun.
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The Hellbenders 1967 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Foreign / Western
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Norma Bengell, Julian Mateos, Gino Pernice, Angel Arana, Al Mulock, Aldo Sambrell, Maria Martin, Ennio Girolami, Jose Nieto, Julio Pena, Claudia Goro, Benito Stefanelli
Ex-Confederate soldier Jonas (Joseph Cotten) just can't get over that the war is history and, along with his sons, he attempts to re-start the war. They ambush a convoy, make a good haul, put the money in a coffin, and head out with a posse in pursuit.
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Texas, Addio 1966 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Foreign / Western
Director: Ferdinando Baldi
Cast: Franco Nero, Alberto Dell'Acqua, Jose Suarez, Elisa Montes, Jose Guardiola, Livio Lorenzon, Hugo Blanco, Luigi Pistilli, Antonella Murgia, Gino Pernice, Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia
The body count is high in this spaghetti Western. Tough Sheriff Burt Sullivan (Franco Nero) leaves his job and heads to Mexico with his younger brother, Jim (Alberto Dell'Acqua), in search of the man, Cisco (Jose Suarez), who killed his father many years before. He locates Cisco, now a rich, ruthless, crime boss. The battle begins, despite the wrinkle that Cisco is Jim's father.
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| 1. Companeros (1970)
2. Django (1966)
3. The Hellbenders (1967)
4. Texas, Addio (1966)
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