The Big Gundown (Italian title: La resa dei conti - roughly The Settling of Accounts) is a 1966 spaghetti western directed by Sergio Sollima and starring Lee Van Cleef and Tomas Milian.
It falls in to the subgenre called Zapata Westerns which are spaghetti westerns with some political context usually concerning the Mexican revolution.
Many consider The Big Gundown one of the finest spaghetti westerns second only to Sergio Leone's "Dollars Trilogy...
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The Big Gundown (Italian title: La resa dei conti - roughly The Settling of Accounts) is a 1966 spaghetti western directed by Sergio Sollima and starring Lee Van Cleef and Tomas Milian.
It falls in to the subgenre called Zapata Westerns which are spaghetti westerns with some political context usually concerning the Mexican revolution.
Many consider The Big Gundown one of the finest spaghetti westerns second only to Sergio Leone's "Dollars Trilogy". It was the first film Van Cleef made following The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) and was his first leading man or hero role. Tomas Milian played Cuchillo who is a charming rogue accused of rape and murder. Van Cleef as Jonathan Corbett hunts him down to help further his own political ambitions. But all is not what it seems.
Run Man Run (1968) was a sequel which brought back Tomas Milian without Van Cleef.
The Big Gundown was cut down to 93 minutes for its US theatrical release. An 89 minute version currently airs on American television....
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