Three Bullets... For A Long Gun

(1970)

South Africa

'Major' - Beau Brummels

'Lucky' - Keith V. D. Wat

Also Starring: Patrick Mynhardt, Don McCorkindale, Tullio Moneta, Janis Reinhardt

Directed by - Peter Henkel

Kills: 22

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South Africa goes Spaghetti West! 'Major' saves 'Lucky' from an execution because 'Lucky' has the other half of the path to a treasure. Sound familiar? Well the similiarities to 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' does not stop there. 'Lucky' tries to be a Tuco like character while 'Major' is a quiet 'Man With No Name' character eating Monkey Nuts. Also when 'Lucky' is digging up a grave it's very similiar to Tuco's perfomance in GBU. There's also a 'Bad' (Hawkeye) but he gets killed way too early, would have been nice too see more of Patrick Mynhardt's great madman perfomance.

South Africa locations aren't too bad for a Western. We get a lot of sun and deserts with some nice scenery. No towns, but some ruins. There's also a scene with some Peckinpah style slow motion gunfighting. Music by Keith Mansfield isn't your regular, got some nice tunes & some not that nice. The sound effects sounds really enhanced and dubbed later on.

Feels cheap and copies alot. Ends too suddenly with a near anticlimax. Much better than the worst of the real Spaghetti's though. Something for Spaghetti Western fans to keep an eye out for.

 

Some dialogue:

Lucky: "-With your brains and my luck we'll be rich."

Watch a clip from the movie. (YouTube)

9 September 2007