And God Said to Cain (1970)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Spaghetti Western has Gary Hamilton (Klaus Kinski) being released from a prison after serving ten years for a crime he didn't commit. The Civil War vet gets released and that same day he goes to the town of the man who put him behind bars to seek revenge. He gets to the town at the same time as a tornado, which just adds more to the revenge plot. This is a pretty interesting film for a few reasons but it's not totally successful in the end. What really hurts the film is the middle section, which features Kinski's character taking out all the gunmen hired by the man he is after. This leads to some pretty boring action as most of the fighting is being done off camera or having Kinski fire his gun through a window. The film has other pacing problems, which means the film could have lost ten minutes and it probably would have been better. The violence itself is pretty PG-rated and overall there's really nothing too offensive for even the most sensitive viewers. What does work is having the film set during a tornado, which adds a lot of atmosphere to the film. The more Spaghetti Westerns I watch I begin to notice that each of them tries to have something fresh and this one here adds the tornado, which does the film good. Kinski is very good in his role and makes for a wonderful good guy so to speak. He's certainly easy to watch even though the guy dubbing him doesn't do that good of a job. Peter Carsten plays the man Kinski is after and does a good job as well. The low budget nature of the film probably hurts more than it helps but in the end this is a mildly entertaining film if you're a fan of the genre.
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Spaghetti Western has Gary Hamilton (Klaus Kinski) being released from a prison after serving ten years for a crime he didn't commit. The Civil War vet gets released and that same day he goes to the town of the man who put him behind bars to seek revenge. He gets to the town at the same time as a tornado, which just adds more to the revenge plot. This is a pretty interesting film for a few reasons but it's not totally successful in the end. What really hurts the film is the middle section, which features Kinski's character taking out all the gunmen hired by the man he is after. This leads to some pretty boring action as most of the fighting is being done off camera or having Kinski fire his gun through a window. The film has other pacing problems, which means the film could have lost ten minutes and it probably would have been better. The violence itself is pretty PG-rated and overall there's really nothing too offensive for even the most sensitive viewers. What does work is having the film set during a tornado, which adds a lot of atmosphere to the film. The more Spaghetti Westerns I watch I begin to notice that each of them tries to have something fresh and this one here adds the tornado, which does the film good. Kinski is very good in his role and makes for a wonderful good guy so to speak. He's certainly easy to watch even though the guy dubbing him doesn't do that good of a job. Peter Carsten plays the man Kinski is after and does a good job as well. The low budget nature of the film probably hurts more than it helps but in the end this is a mildly entertaining film if you're a fan of the genre.