For the long holiday weekend, I bought several western dvd's to watch, including a trio starring Lee Van Cleef.
I had never heard of any of them, but they came as a set called "The Spaghetti Westerns Collection". The three movie titles included are "Death Rides a Horse", "Kid Vengeance" and "God's Gun".
I like Lee as an actor, especially in westerns. He always seemed to be the most believeable character in the movies that he co-starred in with Clint Eastwood, and I wondered if these would be any good.
I've watched "Death Rides a Horse" and recognize many of the Italian actors from the "Dollars" series. The movie reminds me of the short you would see before the real movie, only it has had scenes added to make it longer. The story-line was fine though predictable, most of the acting was good, but as I said earlier the scenes added in to make the film longer only caused it to be a little dis-jointed.
You could tell it was trying to be an arty, Italian film while including western reallism. Lee's character was not unlike some of his other roles, and he played it well. The movie also features John Phillip Law.
I give it 2 ½ out of four bullets, due to the editing, but would still recommend it for Lee Van Cleef fans to see at least once.
Reviews of the other two will follow.