Death Rides a Horse, 1967.
Directed by Giulio Petroni.
Starring Lee Van Cleef and John Phillip Law.
Death Rides a Horse (Italian: Da uomo a uomo) is a Spaghetti Western directed by Giulio Petroni and featuring a musical score from the legendary Ennio Morricone (The Dollars Trilogy). Cult actor John Phillip Law (Barbarella) stars as Bill Meceita, a young gunfighter who fifteen years earlier had witnessed the execution of his family by a gang of outlaws. Driven by a thirst for vengeance, Bill sets out to track the gang members and soon encounters Ryan (Western veteran Lee Van Cleef), an aging gunman with his own score to settle.
Featuring gritty action and a dark, revisionist approach that sees innocent women and children brutally murdered by members of the 'civilized' Old West society, Death Rides a Horse is a fine example of the Italo-Western sub-genre. Director Quentin Tarantino would pay homage to the film with his two-part martial arts thriller Kill Bill (which reuses Morricone's main theme and employs a number of similar visual techniques and plot elements) and although it naturally fails to reach the heights of Sergio Leone's classics, the film is certainly highly recommended.
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