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- Shot on location in the Italian Dolomites, where a rumored 26 tons of shaving cream formed the snowbanks of the film’s backdrop, The Great Silence was meant to echo certain “Snow Westerns” of decades prior, like André de Toth’s 1959 film Day of the Outlaw (while previewing Robert Altman’s similarly transgressive McCabe & Mrs. Miller, from 1971).
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Oct 16, 2019 · Although Corbucci delivered no less than two alternate endings to The Great Silence, what ultimately exists in the film’s final form supposedly caused 20th Century Fox mogul Darryl F. Zanuck to swallow his cigar in shock.
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Plot. Henry Pollicut and two other bounty killers murder a man named Gordon and his wife. To prevent Gordon's son from giving them away, one of the killers slices the boy's throat, rendering him permanently mute. Pollicut becomes a corrupt Utah banker and judge of peace.
Jun 27, 2018 · After the masterful American producer screened the relentlessly downbeat, anti-capitalist spaghetti Western Il grande silenzio (The Great Silence, Sergio Corbucci, 1968), he refused to release it in the United States or England.
- Brad Weismann
Jan 4, 2020 · Spartaco Conversi as Walter in The Great Silence (1968) Trivia: Franco Nero was Corbucci’s first choice for the lead, but was busy with another project so the role went to Frenchman Jean-Louis Trintignant in his only Western.
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Mar 28, 2018 · Corbucci’s 1966 western “Django” was an inspiration for Mr. Tarantino’s “Django Unchained,” and “The Hateful Eight” shares a snowbound aesthetic and a gleeful commitment to cruelty ...
- Sergio Corbucci
Dec 28, 2018 · The movie’s archetypically taciturn hero, played by the French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant between roles in “A Man and a Woman” (1966) and “My Night at Maud’s” (1969), is totally silent — rendered...
Dec 24, 2020 · “The Great Silence” is Corbucci’s best film, if not his most famous, a story of a mute hired gunman brought in to defend and avenge a community of accused men and their families from an 1890s Utah onslaught of pitiless bounty hunters.
