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Oct 16, 2019 · The Beautiful Brutality of Sergio Corbucci’s ‘The Great Silence’. A lone rider moves through a pitiless western wilderness. Stoic and expressively remote, he emerges from a tree-covered refuge into an open expanse of land, where his solitary tranquility is soon contested by a band of assailants. His surface serenity proves deceptive, for ...
Henry Pollicut (Luigi Pistilli), a corrupt Utah banker and justice of the peace, has a man named Gordon (Jean Louis Trintignant) and his wife murdered by two bounty killers. To prevent Gordon's son from giving them away, one of the killers slices the boy's throat, rendering him permanently mute. Years later, in the year 1898, a severe blizzard ...
The Great Silence or Il grande silenzio is a 1968 Italian spaghetti western directed by Sergio Corbucci. It is considered Corbucci's greatest film and has a reputation for being one of the bleakest westerns ever. It plays with a lot of western tropes, such as the usual protagonist of few words actually being a mute, and intentionally provoking ...
Apr 26, 2018 · For a brief moment of time, largely during the 1960s, Italian spaghetti westerns shot across the international cinematic sky, making luminaries of directors like Sergio Leone and jump-starting ...
Hailed as Corbucci's masterpiece THE GREAT SILENCE follows a mute gunfighter defending a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty hunters in the winter of 1898, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 29, 2018. Diane Carson KDHX (St. Louis) Make no mistake, the ugliness of violence and greed comes through a dark, savage story with an incredibly brutal ...
The Great Silence, widely considered Sergio Corbucci’s crowning achievement, is a stark condemnation of the hope and idealism of the mythic American West. A Spaghetti Western as cold and barren as the snowbound landscapes against which it tells its tale, this anti-fable is a dark, unforgiving saga of vengeance and justice (or, more accurately, the lack thereof) that features one of the most ...
