6/10
Acceptable and amusing spaghetti western with two genre stars Giuliano Gemma and George Eastman
28 March 2018
This entertaining engaging movie is crammed with fist-fights, kicks , punches , overwhelming stunt work and lots of humor . Gemma and Eastman or luigi Montefiore are pretty good as two army men robbing and taking on a bunch of bandits and both of whom make their own stunts , as usual .It deals with Ben : Gemma who is freed from prison after spending some years. His colleague Charlie: George Eastman or Luigi Montefiori is waiting out of jail. Then they undertake several adventures, heists , stagecoach assaults and dangers. While they are fighting and hating each other. The duo being relentlessly pursued by a nasty sheriff : Aldo Sambrell and a detective of the famous Pinkerton Agency : Giacomo Rossi Stuart or Jack Stuart. Along the way Ben falls in love for a beautiful woman : Marisa Mell. At the ending takes place , at the downtown, a thrilling duel in Spaghetti style and under splendid musical score background .

This Ravioli has noisy action , shootouts, fights and saloon brawls in Terence Hill/Bud Spencer style. It is an entertaining and funny Pasta Western with the attractive actors Gemma and Eastman forming an odd as well as fun couple. Lightingly paced and with a really disconcerting storyline that results to be absurd at times, but frenetic fights and gunplay sequences make up for it . This release has some cool and hilarious moments ; however, the Terence Hill and Bud Spencer movies are much better. The picture displays lots of laughters , tongue in cheek, jokes , slapstick and cold killings , too . In the picture appears ordinary genre support actors as Spanish players : Aldo Sambrell, Roberto Camardiel, Jesus Guzman, Jorge Rigaud ,Antonio Casas, Francisco Sanz , Cris Huerta , Luis Induni ; as Italian people such as : Nello Pazzafini, Ken Wood or Giovanni Cianfriglia , Tom Felleghy and Franco Fantasia ; most of them playing brief appearances.

Nice cinematography filmed on location El Lacio, Gelato and Spain : Poblado Tabernas, Almeria, Andalucia, Spain. Very good musical score by Gianni Ferrio in Ennio Morricone style and full of catching sounds and haunting songs . The motion picture originally written by Sergio Donati and George Eastman himself was decently made by Michele Lupo who directed various Bud Spencer vehicles as Bulldozer, El Supersheriff, Dos granujas en el oeste, Supersheriff and the little extraterrestrial. Lupo directed to Gemma , his fetish actor , in various movies as Master Touch with Kirk Douglas, Stay Away with Amidou, Arizona Colt with Fernando Sancho and the best: California with William Berger, Romano Puppo, and Miguel Bose .The motion picture will appeal to Spaghetti western aficionados and Giuliano Gemma fans
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