As a young boy, there were many things that could occupy a lads time, playing cars, climbing trees, but two things that would have been at the top of many boys list would have to be playing cowboys and indians and playing with dinosaurs. Oh if there was a way of combining two childhood loves together in a cinematic mash-up?
Fear not, back in 1969 such joys existed for the cinema going public, and every young boy’s playground fantasies had been brought to life by the great Ray Harryhausen.
So sit back and enjoy the spectacle of cowboys and dinosaurs fighting it out in the Mexican plains in our review of ‘The Valley of Gwangi’
As the ‘Dollars Trilogy’ continues the man with no name rides into town once again, now as a bounty killer on the hunt for wanted men, dead or alive. Always looking ‘For a Few Dollars More’ he sees his next prize in the form of El Indio, murderer, bank robber and madman. However, he is not alone in his pursuit of this bounty. The Colonel, a fellow bounty killer, is also on the hunt for El Indio, but is money his only objective?
Find out more in Sergio Leone’s second movie with Clint Eastwood in this spaghetti western classic that will have the screen filled with bandits, bullets and blood.
In this Al Adamson schlock fest a young Mormon couple are attacked by a bunch of outlaws as they travel across the plains to Utah to start a new life. This gang of outlaws kill the husband, but not before raping his wife and living her for dead. With the last ounce of her strength she makes her way to an old hut belonging to an old hermit who nurses her back to health and teaches her how to shoot.
Now recovered she sets out on a trail of revenge to track down the gang that killed her husband and left her for dead.
Attack from Planet B is proud to announce that is now a certified and syndicated as part of the Planet Spaghetti-Western syndicator which pulls together content from many blogs that cover the subject of Westerns and Spaghetti Westerns and Spaghetti Westerns and if part of The Spaghetti Western Database.
The movie that launched a legend and rejuvenated a genre, ‘A Fistful of Dollars (Per un Pugno di Dollari)’ has gone down in movie history as one of the best westerns ever made and maybe only surpassed by the other movies within the Dollars Trilogy. So why is it here at Planet B? Well, because it showed the “movie going public” what they were missing from the world of spaghetti westerns, one of the cornerstones of the B-movie industry.
So get set for a film that has influenced a generation of movie makers and a musical score that will have you squinting into the sunlight looking for your poncho and get ready for the man with no name…