(1999 Video)

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Rock-bottom Rocco
lor_1 June 2011
The vagaries of distribution have OUTLAWS PART TWO available while the first half of this non-event is not in print. No great loss, as this "Seconda Parte" is strictly trash anyway, generating little interest in completing the saga, backwards or forwards.

IMDb helpfully labels this a remake of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, which is a bit like comparing Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup cans to a muckraking novel about the packing business by Sinclair Lewis.

It's just a video-shot, made-in-Spain Joe D'Amato wall-to-wall sex exercise. The terrible English-language dubbing with attempted folksy accents drives the final nail into the coffin.

Feature begins with a guy arriving to pick up a gold deposit from a gal working in an assay office. They both doff their Western duds and have sex, while imitation Morricone music vamps on the soundtrack.

Next a foursome have sex outdoors with the vague suggestion of Indians in their midst (pony-tailed girl in vaguely native outfit and guy with feather in his head-band). A campfire shot is pointlessly superimposed over the scene via lap dissolves. This is crappy filmmaking (nay, video-making) at its clumsiest.

Rocco shows up at the last minute to save a pal from hanging by firing as the noose is slipped around his neck (very corny steal from Italian Westerns). When Rocco arrives in town he's serviced by a blonde whore with a feather in her hair. Sample dialog: "I missed your cock".

There's another outdoor foursome scene as an excuse for double-penetration, de rigeur in D'Amato pornland.

The minimal plot unfolds as Mexican banditos led by Roberto Malone (very silly looking wearing a bandanna and a big, fake mustache) arrive in town to terrorize the place, but are scared off by Rocco and his merry men. As an in-joke he calls out the names of two of his boys: "Jess and Frank" in verbal tribute to the only Euro shlockmeister more prolific than Big Joe.

Rocco celebrates his Yul Brynner-esque saving the day by cavorting with three pretty girls, cross-cut with another three-way outside. Ending has a freeze-frame as Rocco rides away to Canyon City, promising another boring non-adventure.

The stills gallery on the DVD shows many shots from the elusive Part One, including predictably Malone having sex, plus a colorful vintage barbershop backdrop for a hump scene.

Postscript: Years later I got to see Part 1: "Outlaws" via a Sin CIty 4-DVD tribute to Rocco, and it's even worse.
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