The Man Called Noon

Un Hombre llamado Noon

(1973)

Jonas Mandrin/Ruble Noon- Richard Crenna

J.B. Rimes - Stephen Boyd

Directed by - Peter Collinson

Kills: 28

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other - ††††

Reviewed version - English pan & scan

An Uk/Spain production trying to make a Spaghetti Westerns. Some minor Italian producion involved but not enough to make it a true SW.

Noon/Mandrin gets shot, falls down and looses his memory. He runs into Rimes and together they begin to find out who he really is. Later on there is some gold involved, which the bad guys also wants to get their hands on. Not much shooting until the end so there are some boring moments.

It tries to be a Spaghetti, dust, camera-angels showing boots, doors squeeking in the wind. But the characters fail. All that talk about Noon beeing a killer who enjoys his work, (ok he lost his memory but still), doesn't fit into the role Crenna plays. Crenna also makes it feel even less Spaghetti. The small showdown in the end is between two women, which also is anti - Spaghetti Western. Just don't expect too much and you might not be dissapointed.

Music by Luis Bacalov, which made me think about the tune in "Close Encounters of Third Kind". . .

 

Some dialogue:

Noon: "I don't think we've met, I'd remember the smell."