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Spaghetti Western Double Feature
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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HIS NAME WAS KING (1971): Hardened bounty hunter ""King"" MarIey is hired to track down the notorious Benson brothers, who have been smuggling guns across the Mexican border. One of them tries to lure King into a trap, but is kiIled when his weapon backfires. Hungry for revenge, the others kilI King's brother and brutaIIy rape his sister-in-law on their wedding day in retaIiation. Now the bounty is personal, and King won't rest untiI he brings back the Benson brothers' scaIps...
A brutaI, revenge-driven Spaghetti Western, His Name Was King stars Richard Harrison, a mainstay of European B-movies during the 1960s and 70s. He frequently starred in sword-and-sandaI pictures made in ltaly, such as The Invincible Gladiator (1962) and Giants of Rome (1964). Unlike his contemporaries Steve Reeves and Alan SteeI, Harrison had formal acting training. After ltaIy cut down fiIm production, he moved to Hong Kong, where he starred in a total of 18 martiaI arts features. German actor KIaus Kinski is best known for his work with director Werner Herzog. Some of their collaborations include Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) and FitzcarraIdo (1982). Kinski aIso was a regular in Spaghetti Westerns, playing a viIlain in For a Few DoIlars More (1965), among numerous others.
THE MOMENT TO KILL (1968): Two seasoned gunfighters, Lord and BuII, are hired by a judge to retrieve $500,000 worth of goId stoIen years ago from the Confederate treasury. They arrive in town to find the judge murdered and his handicapped daughter kidnapped. The girl is held captive by her eviI uncle, 'Boss' Forrester, who demands to know the Iocation of the missing goId. FeeIing honor bound to the dead judge, Lord and Bull saddle up to rescue the helpIess girI. LittIe do they realize that Forrester has a virtual army of gunmen guarding her. This may be Lord and BuIl's Iast shootout...
The Moment to KiII stars George Hilton, a veteran of over 20 Spaghetti Westerns, incIuding Sartana's HereTrade Your PistoI for a Coffin (1970) and They CaIl Me HaIlelujah (1971). Co-star WaIter Barnes was a former footbalI player for the PhiIadelphia EagIes who started acting in Westerns in the Iate 1950s, even scoring a smaII part in Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo (1959). Tired of the Iimited opportunities America offered him, he moved to ItaIy in the early 1960s, where he got much bigger roles in Spaghetti Westerns. |
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