Now here's the rub-you get BOTH COMBINED on the DVD of "The Fast, the Saved and the Damned" (a DVD collection of four Italian westerns). This is the second Italian western that features a happy ending in the Italian version and a less happy American version. Now of course this makes sense with dubbed films, but I am talking about making the film with DIFFERENT endings depending on the country. Apparently, multiple versions of the film were made depending on what country showed the film. īefore you watch "Minnesota Clay", I have one bit of warning. Rating : 6, riotous Western in which there's too much action and violence and enough excitement. It's an offbeat, surprising and uneven Western but will appeal to Corbucci aficionados. Corbucci makes a nice camera work with clever choreography on the showdown, fighting, moving shootouts and bemusing scenes. as ¨Far West story¨ ,¨Johnny Oro¨, ¨The white the yellow an the black¨, ¨Massacre at Great Canyon (his first Spaghetti) ¨ and ¨Minnesota Clay (his second Western)¨. In addition Sergio directed other inferior S.W. The other Sergio made several Western classics as ¨ Django¨, ¨The great silence¨, ¨The specialist¨, ¨The Hellbenders¨, ¨Navajo Joe¨, and Zapata Western as ¨The Mercenary¨, ¨The Compañeros¨ and ¨What am I doing in middle of the revolution¨. Direction is well crafted, here Corbucci is more cynical and violent and less inclined toward humor and packs too much action, but especially this moving Western contains broad violence specially on the character played by Georges Riviere. ![]() Sergio Corbucci's direction is acceptable, he made numerous Spaghetti classics. Maesso, also producer ( he produced several Western as ¨The ugly ones, Minnesota Clay, Django, A train to Durango, Hellbenders¨). Screenplay with interesting premise about a 'blind gunfighter' is written by Corbucci and Jose G. Mediocre cinematography by Jose Aguayo, Luis Buñuel's customary, but is necessary a perfect remastering, being the copy washed-out. An interesting casting full of usual Spaghetti make this oater well worth the watching. It's an improbable blending of standard Western with pursuits, high body-count and it's fast moving and quite entertaining. The movie gets the ordinary Western issues, such as avengers antiheroes, violent facing off, quick scenes and exaggerated baddies. Special mention to Fernando Sancho in his ordinary role as fatty Mexican bandit and in a cruelly baddie role, he is terrific, and bears a hysterical and mocking aspect, subsequently he would play similar characters. In ¨Minessota Clay¨ appears as secondaries the habitual in Spanish/Italian Western such as Jose Luis Martin, Simon Arriga, Alfonso Rojas, Antonio Casas ,Alvaro De Luna and Guido Pernice, many of them usual in Corbucci films. This interesting theme about a blind gunslinger is also treated in other films such as ¨The blind man¨ by Ferdinando Baldi, ¨An eye for eye¨ by Michael Moore with Robert Lansing and ¨Blind Justice¨ by Richard Spence with Armando Assante. The movie contains gun-play, action Western, thrills and bloody spectacle. It's an exciting western with breathtaking showdown between the starring Cameron Mitchell and his enemies, Geoges Riviere and Fernando Sancho. There is plenty of action in the movie, guaranteeing some shoot'em up or stunts every few minutes. The film packs violence, shootouts, high body-count and it's fast moving and quite entertaining. But here is a problem however, Clay is going blind. The gunslinger enters the town caught between two feuding factions, a nasty sheriff and a gang of Mexican bandits, and is caught up in a struggle against them. In the middle of these two waring parties is Clay's daughter named Nancy (Diana Martin) who thinks her father is dead. ![]() Later on, Clay is imprisoned by outlaw Ortiz ( Fernando Sancho) and also townsfolk is living in terror of his band. At the beginning Clay rescues a woman from bandits, she is named Stella (Ethel Rojo) a gorgeous but devious woman. The gunfighter enemy is Fox (Georges Riviere), who nowadays results to be the Sheriff of a little town who himself terrorises the villagers. As Minnesota Clay (Cameron Michell) takes prisoner a lieutenant (Julio Peña) and seeks revenge on the man who withheld evidence at his trial and arrives in a town ravaged by a sheriff and bandits. ![]() It deals with an inmate wrongfully imprisoned for twenty years for a crime he didn't commit and escaping from jail. Spaghetti with Chorizo Western filmed in Spanish location as La Pedriza ,Manzanares Del Real and Colmenar Viejo and interior scenes shot in usual Italian scenarios called Elios studios.
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