1968 ‘Corri uomo corri’ Directed by Sergio Sollima
The legendary Tomas Milian stars as Cuchillo, a knife-throwing thief on the run from murderous bandits, sadistic American agents, his hot-blooded fiancée and a sheriff turned bounty hunter, all of whom are gunning for a hidden fortune in gold that could finance the Mexican Revolution.
Em Busca do Ouro Perdido, Corre, Cuchillo, corre, Lauf um dein Leben, Saludos hombre, Big Gundown 2: Run, Man, Run, 続・復讐のガンマン ～走れ、男、走れ～, ぞくふくしゅうのガンマン はしれおとこはしれ
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Action! - Spaghetti alla Sergio: Le grandi avventure di Sollima
Solliman is back with a sequel/spinoff to The Big Gundown, and as the name suggests, we follow Tomas Millan's "Cuchillo" as he starts on a new adventure, forming alliances with various characters along the way in order to locate and steal a big treasure.
Sollima does a fantastic job of balancing the elements of the violent Western (the scene with the whirlwind comes to mind) with the humour and great sense of adventure that the previous installment had, but this time the latter is much more present. Although all the colorful characters that make up this picture are wonderful and provide a lot of entertainment value, the real star is…
Tomas Millian on the run from nutso maniac bandits, his fiancé, scumbag government agents, and bounty hunters?? Everyones after gold??? Plus Tomas Milian is a knife thrower?????
Yeah, I’m all in.
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Lauf um dein Leben
Mexico
Cuchillo, ein kleiner Dieb und Messerwerfer, kommt durch zufall an Informationen ran wo ein Goldschatz liegt. An dem sind aber auch andere Parteien interessiert.
Im Jahre 1968 kam dieser Italo-Western raus, in dem Sergio Sollima die Regie übernahm. Tomas Milian, Donald O'Brien und andere bekannte Gesichter sind im Cast vertreten.
Da die Handlung zur Zeit der Mexikanischen Revolution spielt, ist hier natürlich auch eine politische Komponente vorhanden. Diese passt sich dem Geschehen an.
Die Charaktere sind gut getroffen und besser als in so manch anderen Vertretern des Genres.
Humor ist auch vorhanden, der meistens von Millian's Charakter kommt. Diese lockeren Sprüche passen gut hinein.
Das gesamte Setting ist schön anzusehen, da Kameratechnisch sauber eingefangen.
Da durch den Politischen Aspekt der Handlung, über diese auch viel geredet wird, hat es mich an manchen Stellen "ausgebremst".
Wer einen guten Vertreter des Genres schauen will, darf hier gerne zugreifen.
"A righteous cause is not enough."
Run, Man, Run is both the third part of Sergio Sollima's Zapata trilogy and a direct sequel to the first part of that trilogy, picking up the character of Cuchillo immediately following the events of The Big Gundown, which puts it in a unique position relative to other Zapata westerns. Where most Zapatas depict the path to politicization, whether that means literally joining the revolution or simply experiencing some other form of political awakening, Run, Man, Run begins with an already politicized subject and asks, what now?
What do we do once we take up the revolutionary cause as our own? As both a sequel and the conclusion to a…
Three million in gold waits in a Texas town near the Mexican border as revolutionaries begin the overthrow of Porfirio Diaz in a kind of mythical way because it's a jailed poet who reveals the whereabouts of the treasure to a knife-throwing legend by the name of Cuchillo. You got to love the imagination here at work in "Run Man Run". Three million in gold could definitely be enough to arm and feed the revolutionary force, but other characters have their eyes on the fortune. Cuchillo meets Penny Bannington, a servant of the lord for the Salvation Army, out to save the souls of the revolutionaries, and good-looking as well, who hears of the three million and her eyes twinkle.…
“A man can’t steal in peace?”
Dirty scoundrel Tomas Milian tied to a post with a lit stick of dynamite in his mouth. You know, just Tomas Milian doing Tomas Milian things. Sometimes you can just tell by an opening credit sequence that a film will be a banger. In this case, a theme song credited to Bruno Nicolai and sung by Milian himself plays over the Lardini titles, promising comic book mayhem and libertad carnage (it’s a song Milian will pleasantly hum to himself throughout the film).
Milian is best known for playing two roles: a murderous psychopath and a simpleminded vagabond. He’s playing the latter here, a charming thief by the name of Cuchillo (the same one from…
One of the more fun and exciting "spaghetti" westerns, Run Man Run is kind of a minor epic.
In the sequel to The Big Gun Down, Thomas Milian is Cuchillo a roguish scamp who is deadly with a knife.
After winding up in prison with a revolutionary and helping him escape, Cuchillo becomes entrusted with receiving three million in gold.
He is pursued through the desert by assorted bandits, weirdos, schemers, and killers.
Donald O'Brian is a sheriff turned bounty hunter after the gold himself, along with Chelo Alonso as Cuchillo's girlfriend who follows him so they can marry.
It's one bizarre situation after another!
One of the better non-Sergio Leone westerns, and dig that psychedelic opening.
Jose' Tores, Linda Veras, John Ireland, Directed by Sergio Sollima, 1968, 2hrs
Sergio Sollima crafts a sequel to his earlier Big Gundown, this time focusing on Tomas Milian's knife wielding scamp, Cuchillo, against a Zapata backdrop. This time out, Cuchillo breaks out of prison with a poet (José Torres) who soon puts him in the centre of a hunt for a fortune meant for the revolution - pursued by outlaws, government agents, the salvation army, his fiancee (Chelo Alonso), and a lawman turned bounty hunter (Donald O'Brien).
Despite the many players circling around our lead, it lacks the playful spirit and episodic nature that made The Big Gundown stand out. Trying to make it as chaotic as possible, a number of the players jockeying for the loot feel underwritten - with commentary…
Run, Man, Run is the only sequel in the gringo cycle so it is the only film that takes place after radicalization is complete, so Sollima interests lies elsewhere on iconography and mythmaking. The picarsque plot, a treasure hunt for the revolution, and the the White dude, well played by Donald O'Brien, are beside the point, what matters is Cochillo himself and he remains one of late 60s political filmmaking greatest creations. A suvivor instead of a fighter, a knife-throwing escape artist, by far the unlikeliest of western heroes played by Millian as pure resilient hustle. All Sollima efforts lies toward positioning Cuchillo as this image of third world insurgence, always in a jam, always ready to survive another day, impossible to keep down, less heroic than a resistent, a man of eternal struggle.
Spoilers ahead.
Director Sergio Sollima's loose sequel to his very popular The Big Gundown, Run, Man, Run is far more of a shaggy dog story than either that film or the second in Sollima's trilogy of Zapata westerns, Face to Face. Though Sollima considered this film the most political of the three, its shagginess nevertheless creates a degree of murkiness in its politics, an affliction shared by Face to Face.
The Big Gundown was explicitly about the political journey of Jonathan Corbett (Lee Van Cleef) and his realization of the control the white elites wield over everyone they consider lesser, with Tomas Milian's Cuchillo Sanchez acting as both a catalyst and, at times, Corbett's fellow student of social realities. This…
Spaghetti with a side of politics and banditry, although I wouldn’t place this in the Zapata genre.
Tomas Milian plays Cuchillo, a man on the run from scheming women, French agents, an American ex-Sheriff and a bandit gang. Throw in $3 million in gold and some well-placed knives.
Alas, the pacing is inconsistent, the duration excessive, and the story a rough draft. Acting and production are great, but the dub suffers.
Nós o vemos galopando pelo deserto e ainda não sabemos quem é; ele cruza o caminho com quatro cadáveres e não sabemos o que pensa, se ele segue, se não segue, se tem medo, se se importa; chega em um vilarejo de casas de pedra calcária, um vilarejo que parece deserto, habitado apenas por um cachorro magro que choraminga; desce do cavalo e em seguida, em apenas um plano, sabemos quem é e o que pensa o vulgo Cuchillo; há a moldura de uma porta de trás e através da moldura vê-se um prato cheio de comida; Cuchillo anda de um lado para o outro em frente à porta, de um lado para o outro entrando e saindo do plano,…
