Spoonixel Amateur movie with Big budget

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

hwg1957-102-265704 Scott has a lowly job in the town of Clifton, mainly clearing up people's rubbish, and is treated with disinterest and sometimes contempt by the seemingly righteous citizens of the town. Into which town rides the mysterious Frank Talby and everything starts to be shaken up as two main plot strands emerge; the taking under his wing of Scott by Talby and Talby's efforts to get back the $50,000 dollars he claims is owing to him. It starts off slowly establishing character then moves up several gears to the gripping climax.Giuliano Gemma as Scott is good and Lee Van Cleef as the ambiguous (Is he a hero or a villain?) Talby is even better. Although playing in an Italian western was so familiar to him Van Cleef still manages to give a compellingly nuanced performance. Walter Rilla as Murph is the best of the supporting actors. The rest of the cast are typical Italian western actors in that they don't look quite right as American cowboys but have oddly fascinating faces. To bolster the film are a splendid music score by Riz Ortolani and the gorgeous cinematography by Enzo Serafin in Technicolour and Techniscope., making the landscapes particularly beautiful. Each shot could be framed as a work of art. A spaghetti western not to be missed.

zardoz-13 Tonino Valerii's "Day of Anger" ranks in the lower half of the ten top best Spaghetti westerns. This intelligent, superbly made, marvelously lensed formulaic saga about the rise and fall of a notorious gunfighter holds its own against comparable American horse operas, partially since veteran Hollywood villain Lee Van Cleef of "High Noon" stars as the lead-slinging anti-hero who is as fast on the draw as he is deadly accurate with his aim. This lean, mean, gritty 95-minute sagebrusher is one of the three best Spaghettis that Van Cleef appeared in, with "Death Rides A Horse" edging "Day of Anger" out as the best, while "For A Few Dollars More" closely follows in third place. As far as I know, no American western has gone into as much detail about the rules of being a gunfighter as "Day of Anger." Indeed, "Day of Anger" recalls both the Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins relationship in Anthony Mann's "The Tin Star" (1958) and Brian Keith and Steve McQueen in Henry Hathaway's "Nevada Smith" (1966) where an old gun teaches a young gun the rules. Frank Talby (Lee Van Cleef) delineates the nine things that Scott Mary (co-star Giuliano Gemma of "Fort Yuma Gold") must learn to survive as a gunfighter. First, never beg for anything from another man. Second, never trust anybody. Third, never come between a gun and its target. Fourth, like bullets, punches in a fistfight must be first if you want to finish the brawl. Fifth, if you wound a man, then you'd better finish him off; otherwise, he will try to kill you. Sixth, you must aim your bullets well and always shoot them at the right time. Seventh, take a man's gun away from him before you untie his wrists. At this point, Scott Mary interjects a rule that he contrived on the spot: "Don't give a man any more bullets that what he needs." Eighth, sometimes you will have to accept a challenge or lose everything. Ninth, when you start killing, you cannot stop it.Scenarists Renzo ("Jungle Holocaust") Genta and Ernesto ("My Name Is Nobody") Gastaldi, along with director Tonino Valerii, based their "Day of Anger" screenplay on a German novel by Ron Barker entitled "Der Tod Ritt Dienstags." Valerii and company waste no time establishing the primary setting in the inhospitable frontier berg of Clifton, Arizona, and we meet an illegitimate fellow simply known as Scott (Giuliano Gemma of "The Master Touch") who was raised in the local bordello and now serves as the community's garbage collector. Everybody looks down their collective noses at woebegone Scott. Scott's life is grim, unrelenting drudgery until gunfighter Frank Talby (Lee Van Cleef) rides into Clifton and pays Scott a dollar to stable his horse. Later, in the saloon, after Talby has given Scott his dollar, he invites the youth to have a drink. The outraged saloon owner refuses to serve Scott and another gunman challenges Talby. Talby guns him down and an inquest clears him of murder. The irate townspeople beat up Scott for testifying on Talby's behalf. Scott flees the town on his mule to track down Talby. He finds him in the border town of Bowie where Talby is demanding that Wild Jack (Al Mulock of "The Hellbenders") pay him back the $50-thousand that he owes him. Jack explains that he just got released from prison where he served a 10-year sentence. Talby has no sympathy for Jack, until he explains that the robbery that he staged was planned by the pillars of community in Clifton and that they sold him down the river. Eventually, Talby has to shoot Jack and then he sets out to blackmail the pillars of Clifton to obtain his $50-thousand. Scott helps Talby out of a scrape afterward by tossing him a gun after three bandits have dragged him through the sagebrush on his belly. Of course, Talby wipes them out and Scott and he become thick as thieves. Only in the final quarter hour do Talby and Scott Mary have their first and final falling out over Talby's decision to gun down Scott's friend, the elderly lawman. The shoot'em up finale reiterates the nine gunfighter rules. Riz Ortolani's jazzy energetic orchestral score is a welcome departure from the Ennio Morricone staple, and Enzo ("Beyond the Law") Serafin's widescreen cinematography captures the primitive quality of the west. At one point in the plot, Talby burns down a saloon that he has half-ownership in and kills his partner. The saloon that Talby orders built is probably the most distinctive saloon in the history of western movies both foreign and domestic. What stands out about the facade of the saloon is that huge, hand-carved, and painted Colt's .45 six-guns serve as the facade uprights.Although this Lee Van Cleef & Giuliano Gemma western is serious from start to finish, "Day of Anger" gets its best joke in early in the action, but you have to be a Spaghetti western fan to appreciate it. Scott grabs his mule to ride after Talby. Scott Mary calls his mule 'Sartana,' the name of an invincible gunslinger in Spaghetti westerns. Valerii and his scribes has fashioned an old-fashioned western that owes more to Hollywood than Europe. Essentially, "Day of Anger" amounts to a morality play wherein the hero is rewarded for his virtue and the villains are penalized with death for their perfidy. Lee Van Cleef excels as Talby and Gemma is convincing as the green kid who grows up fast. Talby remains a static character, while Scott changes over time from a nobody to a somebody, something rare in Spaghettis. Nothing in "Day of Anger" is unrealistic. Valerii stages a great joust-like duel on horseback where the rivals must load black powder rifles with cap and ball while riding hell-bent at each other and shoot to kill. The dialogue doesn't consist of snappy repartees, and violence isn't glorified as it usually is in most Spaghettis.

Marvin Nash Nice shootouts, interesting plot, great score (even which isn't written by Morricone), the characters develop very good. It doesn't need any stupid brutal violence. It gets brutal through its story and characters. Andy every time in the movie you can stay on Scott's side, even though he begins as a little stable-boy, becomes a tough gunfighter, and in the end a man, who makes his own decisions and who is able to differ the good from the evil. Very interesting too, are Talby's motives fro recruiting the innocent Scott. But he always tried to control him (by telling him, how to shoot and buying him another gun than he has).Talby: "Allright Scott, you can come with me, but don't get your hopes up to high, 'cause it's a dirty life."Great line :>

EYEboy Nothing here you haven't seen before if you're a fan of Italian westerns, but DAY OF ANGER develops its plot and characters carefully, keeping you on the edge of your seat throughout. Van Cleef is terrific--this is surely one of his finest moments--yet he's matched stride-for-stride by Giuliano Gemma and the rest of the cast, with solid performances from many bit players. The direction and camera work are first rate, also. It may fall just short of Leone and the first Django movie, but it's still a first-rate spaghetti western.