*** This review may contain spoilers ***
*Plot and ending analyzed*
I recently found my old 1980s VHS tape of this movie. It was an extremely difficult to find movie for many years, but now many sites are offering DVD copies of it.
My version is in Spanish only. The movie has American actor Jeffrey Hunter, who died in 1969, in it. His life was taken by an explosion and its after effects on some cheap movie production in Europe. Apparently he was not getting roles in America so he went abroad. Quite a tragic loss.
The movie also has familiar Mexican actors in it. Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Andrés García, and Mexican director and actor Chano Urueta, who was in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969), are just a few of them.
Dominican-born Mexican actor Andres Garcia (a popular Latin actor who was concentrating on soap operas before he died) was only about 28 years old here. He could have been a Latin Paul Newman, but films like this did not establish his dramaturgical expression and credibility.
This Western is a typical low budget Mexican movie, except that they brought in an American for it. Jeffrey Hunter plays a lawman who goes hunting for a vicious bandit, who turns out to be an old friend. He draws on Jeffrey Hunter, and loses. Jeffrey Hunter then decides to put the guns away for good. But more bad men are to be found. Will he pick up his guns again? I think you know the answer.
"You got two ways to go, put it down or use it. " - Hombre (1967)
*Plot and ending analyzed*
I recently found my old 1980s VHS tape of this movie. It was an extremely difficult to find movie for many years, but now many sites are offering DVD copies of it.
My version is in Spanish only. The movie has American actor Jeffrey Hunter, who died in 1969, in it. His life was taken by an explosion and its after effects on some cheap movie production in Europe. Apparently he was not getting roles in America so he went abroad. Quite a tragic loss.
The movie also has familiar Mexican actors in it. Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Andrés García, and Mexican director and actor Chano Urueta, who was in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969), are just a few of them.
Dominican-born Mexican actor Andres Garcia (a popular Latin actor who was concentrating on soap operas before he died) was only about 28 years old here. He could have been a Latin Paul Newman, but films like this did not establish his dramaturgical expression and credibility.
This Western is a typical low budget Mexican movie, except that they brought in an American for it. Jeffrey Hunter plays a lawman who goes hunting for a vicious bandit, who turns out to be an old friend. He draws on Jeffrey Hunter, and loses. Jeffrey Hunter then decides to put the guns away for good. But more bad men are to be found. Will he pick up his guns again? I think you know the answer.
"You got two ways to go, put it down or use it. " - Hombre (1967)
