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Matthew D @OceanSage May 17 An insanely awesome and exciting Spaghetti Western with nonstop shootouts and chases. Italian director Gianfranco Parolini’s Spaghetti Western If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death (1968) is absolutely outrageous! One of the greatest Westerns ever made easily. Parolini’s direction is endlessly entertaining. There are immediately shootouts with a little four barrel pistol, sniper rifle duels, horse chases, minigun ambushes, sneaky card gambling, hidden gold, and rope traps. Gianni Garko is very cool, handsome, tough, and clever as the fast drawing gunslinger Sartana. Garko looks so much like Clint Eastwood mixed with Franco Nero here as Sartana. William Berger is enthralling as the entertaining villain Lasky, who shoots through anyone in his way. Klaus Kinski is still crazy and intimidating as the fierce knife and rifle wielding villain Morgan. In all, If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death is a fabulous Spaghetti Western. It’s more exciting than most Westerns you will ever see. See more Dallas H @FozzieMcFly Apr 30 I really enjoy watching Spaghetti Westerns, and this first installment of the Sartana series is a riff of the Clint Eastwood and Sergio Leone series. I truly enjoyed watching this movie and am looking forward to watching the rest of the series. For this first viewing, I had the audio set to the English dubbed version. For later repeated viewings, I will switch to the Italian-language audio and turn on the English subtitles. See more 04/24/2020 The first entry in the Sartana series is fun and stylish, featuring high adventure and a high body count. Gianni Garko is a cool and charismatic lead, Klaus Kinski adds yet another awesomely entertaining villain to his resumé, and the colorful array of side characters are just a delight. See more 10/08/2016 If you meet Sartana; tell him the plots to his movies are rather confusing but still very enjoyable. Oh and Garko's screen presence is just awesome. See more 01/13/2014 SARTANA is an entertaining SW with lots of action, gun-play and fun--He is your Pallbearer!! See more 02/12/2013 This movie is from the 10 Feature Film Collection Sartana The Complete Saga. I am a big fan of Spaghetti Westerns (the good ones, anyway), and was really looking forward to seeing "Sartana." I loved the film "Django"--I can understand why it was so successful and inspired so many imitation Django-films. But after viewing the English language video of "Sartana", I can't see any reason why "Sartana" inspired any imitators, or was so successful. To me, "Sartana" was just an average Spaghetti, with a high body count--mostly resulting from the villains killing each other. I watched the video twice, and I still don't understand the plot--it was a jumbled mess; perhaps the original Italian version made more sense. Klaus Kinski's role was limited to just a few scenes, with almost nothing to do. William Berger made a charismatic villain, but his personality inexplicably alternated between bravery and cowardice. (And I don't know how Berger was able to recruit gang members, the way he was always killing his own men.) The unshaven anti-hero Garko (who bore an uncanny resemblance to James Franciscus in some scenes) was pleasing but unexceptional in the lead role, his only unique feature was his weapon, a tiny four-barrel pepperbox-style pistol--which in reality, with its short barrels and tiny bullets, should have been vastly inferior in range, accuracy and effectiveness when compared to an ordinary six-shooter. Even the background music was bland. Too many incidents were lifted from the Leone/Eastwood films: the musical watch, the metal plate deflecting a bullet, the eccentric coffin maker. And Sartana wins the final showdown by using a trick, instead of his skill. "Sartana" is a historically important Spaghetti Western because of its success and the number of imitators (in name, at least) that it inspired, but there are many better films within the Spaghetti Western genre. 2 1/2 Stars 12-12-12 See more Read all reviews

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