Indeed, the show's decent enough soundtrack score, which was composed by Angel Arteaga but arranged and conducted by Bruno Nicolai, serves to add a further dash of Spaghetti Western-tinged flavour. The pair's anti-hero status is just one of a number of elements that make this West German-Spanish co-production look and feel like a genuine Spaghetti Western at times. They may be cold-blooded killers but the pair do possess some morals, which leads to them reluctantly siding with Grande when Villaine's bullying thugs start provoking trouble in Powder City. Interestingly, the French actor Brice actually gets to play a French gunslinger in this show: the Frenchman with No Name's accent is conveniently explained away during a conversation found at the start of the film, which reveals that he hails from New Orleans.Ī Place Called Glory's producers should really be commended for boldly casting both actors somewhat against type: Barker and Brice both play hard-nosed and unsentimental gunmen who make a living by competing in gunfighter contests that are effectively duels to the death. The only tenuous link to be found here is the fact that - just as in the Winnetou films - Barker plays a character who doesn't wear a generic cowboy hat. Villaine assumes that Brenner and the Frenchman must be working for Grande and he orders his gang of cutthroats to dispose of the duo.Ī Place Called Glory is of interest to Euro Western fans principally because it re-unites Lex Barker ( Castle of the Walking Dead) and Pierre Brice ( Mill of the Stone Women), the duo forever remembered as the two main stars of the West German Winnetou film series, in a distinctly un- Winnetou-like genre outing. A range war is about to erupt and the fact that Grande's daughter Jade (Marianne Koch) is romantically involved with Villaine, albeit under sufferance, serves to further complicate matters. The leader of a gang of violent thugs, Jack Villaine (Gerard Tichy), is acting as the spokesperson for local cattle barons who are angry that Seth Grande (George Rigaud) is allowing homesteaders to settle on his land. However, the pair find themselves with more pressing problems to deal with when they pass through Powder City. The two sharpshooters are oblivious to the fact that they are scheduled to go head-to-head in a "gunfight to the death" competition that is the highlight of Glory City's Founder's Day celebrations.
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Two professional gunfighters, Clint Brenner (Lex Barker) and a mysterious Frenchman (Pierre Brice), become friends following a chance meeting on the open trail.
Produced by Bruce Balaban and Danilo Sabatini Written by Jerold Hayden Boyd, Edward Di Lorenzo and Fernando Lamas Starring Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Marianne Koch, Gerard Tichy, George Rigaud, Aldo Sambrell, Antonio Molino Rojo, Wolfgang Luschy
Mario Bava's The Road to Fort Alamo is another un-generic genre entry: here former Peplum star Ken Clark goes head to head with a tribe of marauding Osage Indians.ġ965 / Colour / 2.35:1 anamorphic / Die Holle von Manitoba / 93 m. Ralph Gideon's A Place Called Glory is a fairly un-generic show that makes reasonably interesting use of the two main stars of the West German Winnetou series and a handful of well-known faces from Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars. This double bill disc from Wild East features a couple of really quite obscure and unusual Euro Westerns from the early part of the genre's 1960s cycle.