| As a dilettante in the rare/cult aspects of the genre I was interested in seeing some of the "Spaghetti Westerns" starring a man with several names, including Tony Anthony, known also as "The Poor Man's Clint Eastwood". He was in dozens of 'em, but being limited to a Fistful Of Spaghetti that ran in theatres or on TV while growing up in the 70's I knew of the Leone films, the Trinity films, and not much more. So I got BLINDMAN and really dug the dudes style. And I knew that after re-imagining YOJIMBO, Clint wanted to do the same with Katsu's ZATOICHI character, but he said figuring out how a blind guy could be a gunfighter stumped him. So I got STRANGER'S GUNDOWN, which was said to be the 3rd in a series and was Clint's "inspiration" for his debut behind the camera on an American made SW, but the dude in this STRANGER film does not even slightly resemble Tony Anthony in BLINDMAN, and it sucked! I was confused. So I got this double-billed DVD of the first 2 STRANGER films to see if I was right, that a mistake was made, or someone else used his name, or the Cancer that eventually got him had changed his features drastically. Well, this was the Tony Anthony I knew from the first film I got with him. A sarcastic shit with a good sense of comedic timing less slapstick than Terence Hill, and less in-yo-face than Tomas Milian, and a "blondie" who still looks nothing at all like the dude in "Part 3" of "The STRANGER Trilogy". And the two films here were pretty good too! A good plot and interesting characters in the Good, Bad, and Ugly categories made these a good follow up sampling for me of Anthony's talent as Actor, Writer, and Producer. So, bottom line: This was a great deal on a pair of good SW's showcasing a terrific & unknown (in the States) old fashioned Movie Star. |
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