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Brutal! Violent! Savage!
A man, released after a jail term for a crime he did not commit, raises a gang to go after the man who framed him.
Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die!
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Brett Halsey Bud Spencer Wayde Preston Jeff Cameron Franco Borelli Dana Ghia Teodoro Corrà Victoriano Gazzarra Aldo Marianecci Michele Borelli Umberto Di Grazia Franco Pechini Nazzareno Natale William Berger Tatsuya Nakadai Remo Capitani Lina Franchi Giglio Gigli Franco Gulà Riccardo Petrazzi Renzo Pevarello Aysanoa Runachagua Pietro Torrisi Rinaldo Zamperla
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Der Dicke ist nicht zu bremsen, Stoßgebet für einen Hammer, Today It's Me, Tomorrow You, Cinq gachettes d'or, Heute ich ... morgen du!, Ojo por ojo, Today It's Me... Tomorrow It's You!, Vou, Mato E Volto, Dnes já, zítra ty, A Vingança pela Honra, Hoje Eu... Amanhã Você, Heute ich… morgen Du!, Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die!, 5 Gachettes d'Or, Ezer pofon ajándékba, Sheriffen fra Nevada, 野獣暁に死す, Mato Hoje, Morro Amanhã, Δολλάρια... σφαίρες και...σφαλιάρες!, Dnes ja, zajtra ty, Днес съм аз, утре си ти, Fem red ut!, 不是我死，就是你亡！, Today We Kill... Tomorrow We Die!, 5 เสือเดนตาย, Bugün Bana Yarın Sana, Сегодня я, завтра ты.
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Italy
11 Jun 1968
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France
21 Oct 1968
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Denmark
19 Nov 1968
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Germany18
28 Jul 1971
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16 Jun 2005
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Denmark
21 Oct 1968
- Theatrical
France
11 Jun 1968
- Theatrical
16 Jun 2005
- Physical DVD
Germany
19 Nov 1968
- Theatrical18
Italy
28 Mar 1968
- Theatrical
USA
28 Jul 1971
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American westerns are great, but I think I enjoy more its european counterpart, the spaghetti western! Bud Spencer is an iconic actor and he always delivers. It's a fun, predictable and formulaic western with everything the italian filmmakers do in a great manner.
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Spaghetti western story of vengeance soaked in nihilistic violence about a man sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit who remembers the rape and murder of his Native American wife every day he's locked in his cell by the guy who used to be his close friend and is now the outlaw leader of a group known as Comancheros. After his release it's like two gangs will meet in a forest, the heavily armed Comancheros against the four men the ex-prisoner finds who agree to help him after he offers each of them $10,000. They have each others back, while the Comancheros are your typical band of cutthroats. How better to spend that money than to use it…
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Even obscure, B-Level Westerns like this can rise above mediocrity by having a good old-fashioned revenge plot. Co-written by a young Dario Argento, this hits most of the right beats. Brett Halsey's Comanche wife is brutally gunned down by his once close friend and Halsey is framed and sent to prison for 5 years where he carves a gun out of wood and practices day and night until his release. All he wants is his buddy's skull. The best moments are of Halsey rounding up a gang of the most cold-blooded killers he can find, including Bud Spencer and William Berger, with each of these scenes ending by the ever-growing gang riding off to heroic, ass-kicking music. It's hard to go wrong with this stuff. Great title, nasty violence and a memorable machete wielding villain makes this a pretty good find among the hundreds of Spaghetti Westerns out there.
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Riding is something you should know how to do,
on a Horse's back!Now just let that sink in for a minute: Bud Spencer and Tatsuya Nakadai in a Western written by Dario Argento!
Unfortunately the direction wasn't handled by the likes of Sergio Leone, and you can see that Tonino Cervi wasn't full up to the task, to handle such a simplistic story with the needed pacing and innovation, to keep the ol' good guys hunt bad guys tale fresh.
And of course, Nakadai saves the day with his formidable sword fighting skills and his acting. From a horse or on foot, always a danger to anyone he lays his eyes on.
The eyes of the void.Good thing, that Germany is such a Bud Spencer-Fan. This is the only Blu-Ray release of this movie worldwide! And the German subtitles were atrocious.
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"Der Dicke ist nicht zu bremsen"
"Heute ich... morgen Du"Blöde Titel... :D
Trotzdem ein angenehmer, unterhaltsamer, ernster, recht Brutaler Italo-Western mit Bud Spencer der hier wunderbar hinein passt und William Berger.
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It feels almost impossible to fuck up a film like this even though this is just hindsight of a modern viewer. Still when you look at it: this is a spaghetti western with a revenge story, centered around a guy getting out of prison and then gathering a crowd of tough gunmen to serve the vengeance the way it is best served + co-written by Dario Argento and Tatsuya Nakadai starring as the bad guy... Still the whole thing is completely humorless, dully shot and edited, without tension and almost even without good gun fights. Waste of time. A film that promises too much.
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Spaghetti Western Wednesday #16
With Dario Argento co-penning with director Tonino Cervi one would perhaps expect something lush. But the truth of the matter is, Argento and Cervi stick quite true to the formula as they tell their tale of vengeance in the old west.
After being released from a five-year stint in prison, Bill Kiowa (Brett Halsey, as Montgomery Ford) returns to his father's farm, gathers up a huge chunk of dollars and sets off to find three fast shooting companions to avenge the murder of his wife and the time in prison he spent after being framed for her murder by Elfego (Tatsuya Nakadai) and his a band of bandits.
Despite a fancy cast of companions, Halsey, Bud…
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It is a man on a mission film only the mission is to kill Tatsuya Nakadai very creepy bad guy. Director Cervi does an impressive job of keeping this mostly open air film oppressive. One moves through a moral swamp approaching death. The unflinching pragmatism the killers go around their pursue is chilling. The dry forest of the climax is one of the better spaghetti sets. Real good cast all around. Co-written by Dario Argento.
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A fairly standard western with the most noteworthy thing about is that it is starring Bud Spencer and written by Dario Argento. Still, there is something compelling about its simplicity. A man wants revenge against the gang that put him wrongfully in jail, so he hires 4 gunmen. 5000 dollars no questions asked. It has terrible dubbing, but makes up for it with good barfights and a final shootout, that unlike most of these types of movies doesn't take place in the streets of a small town, but in the deep forest with slow and methodical killing.
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Gesehen auf der "remastered" Blu-Ray und holla hatten die wohl nur noch ne schlechte Filmrolle zur Verfügung. Der Hintergrund bebt von rauschendem Filmkorn.
Aber egal zum Film. Leider hatte Bud Spencer hier noch nicht sein typischen Synchronsprecher. Aber interessant Spencer mal als Nebencharakter neben einem anderen Darsteller als Terrence Hill zu sehen. Diese Rolle ist viel ernster und mehr cooler.
Auch Spencer ist hier eitel und weniger Haudrauf Typ.
Wirklich toller Soundtrack. Und auch ne coole Darstellertruppe, alle zwar kaum charakterisiert, dennoch sehr unterschiedlich.
Und mir hat gefallen wie sie Guerilla Style ein nach dem Anderen besiegen.
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Also, "Der dicke ist nicht zu bremsen" aus dem Jahre 1968 ist ein reiner Italo-Western komplett ohne (freiwilligen) Humor, in dem Spencer "nur" eine grosse Nebenrolle spielt. Der Film lief im Kino unter dem Titel "Heute ich - morgen du" und bekam nichtmal eine Comedy-Synchro verpasst. Hier gibts keine komischen Sprueche oder so. Der Film bietet also ganz bestimmt nicht das, was man von einem Bud Spencer Film erwartet. Bis auf eines - und das finde ich interessant : Seine Art. Manchmal wirkt das so als uebe er fuer "den" Bud Spencer. Was immer auch passiert, er bleibt ruhig, Daumen in der Jacke, und haut ab und an zu. Eine Schlaegerei im Saloon koennte aus einem Spencer/Hill Film stammen -…
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Today We Kill... Tomorrow We Die! might be a boilerplate revenge tale, but its ragtag group of has-beens, lovable brutes, hustlers, and jailbird crooks, going up against Tatsuya Nakadai (and his crew), is worth a gander. Hell, I would have loved multiple sequels with this bunch - alas the closest I'll get is watching The Five Man Army.
If you're feeling philosophical, you could interpret it as a (literal) showdown between the Spaghetti West and the Far East - since many Italian directors used to rip off... I mean, derive inspiration from classics of Japanese cinema. But let's get off this snobby high horse tangent real quicklike, it has no place here (*come on, git!*).
I grew up on endless…