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# The Great Silence

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Product Description          On an unforgiving, snow swept frontier, a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters, led by the vicious Loco (Klaus Kinski, Nosferatu, For a Few Dollars More) prey on a band of persecuted outlaws who have taken to the hills. As the price on each head is collected one-by-one, only a mute gunslinger named Silence (Jean-Louis Trintignant, The Conformist) stands between the innocent refuges and the greed and corruption that the bounty hunters represent. But, in this harsh, brutal world, the lines between right and wrong aren't always clear and good doesn't always triumph. Featuring superb photography and a haunting score from maestro Ennio Morricone, director Sergio Corbucci's bleak, brilliant and violent vision of an immoral, honorless west is widely considered to be among the very best and most influential Euro-Westerns ever made.             Review          I'm not generally one for nostalgia, but I do regret the loss of a certain kind of craziness that used to flourish in movies the kind that is on rich and ripe display in The Great Silence, a 1968 Italian western by Sergio Corbucci that is only now receiving a proper theatrical release in this country. There is something about the film's brazen mixing of incompatible elements that defies categorization, imitation or even sober critical assessment. It's anarchic and rigorous, sophisticated and goofy, heartfelt and cynical. The score, by Ennio Morricone, is as mellow as wine. The action is raw, nasty and blood-soaked. The story is preposterous, the politics sincere... The mood is sometimes jaunty, but The Great Silence is no joke, and the fatalism of its ending serves as an implicit critique of the sentimental optimism of many Hollywood westerns. Power speaks louder than silence. --A.O. Scott, The New York TimesPacks a bleak, bloody punch...[and] goes out with a devastating bang. - Simon Abrams, The Village Voice Brutal, bleakly beautiful spaghetti Western filmed on stark locations in the Dolomites, with one of the most uncompromising and unforgettable finales ever filmed. --Leonard MaltinSensationally grim...be prepared for a holy bludgeoning. - David Edelstein, New York Magazine The greatest spaghetti Western ever made. --Alex Cox, director of Sid & Nancy and Repo Man

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The Snow Globe is Busted
  

*by O***5 on Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2020*

Black and brown horses trot through the white mountain terrain.  On the stagecoach ride Loco with a lethal tongue, the sheriff with a disdain for Loco, and the gunslinger with no vocal cords.Our adventure is "The Great Silence" (1968), and it's my #6 movie of all time.Most of us remember the snow globes we loved to shake when we were kids, right?  Think of a snow globe brought to life--and that's what "The Great Silence" looks like.However, let the viewer beware.  Director Sergio Corbucci gives us a snow globe that's busted.I think of Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) teaching kids and adults how to read and write in the John Ford classic, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962).  There's no such hope in "The Great Silence" (1968).We're treated to the grandeur of God's creation--but we're also taken to the depths of human depravity.Quentin Tarantino says of Corbucci: "His West was the most violent, surreal, and pitiless landscape of any director in the history of the genre."I agree.  I think the Michael Cimino epic "Heaven's Gate" (1980) comes very close--but "The Great Silence" (1968) is as bleak as they get."Heaven's Gate"--a great, underrated film--was considered the American flop of the century in 1980.  "The Great Silence" wasn't shown in an American theater until the next century.British film director Alex Cox does a great DVD special feature, "Cox on Corbucci," and he's written a fun book on Italian Westerns, "10,000 Ways to Die" (2009).  Cox says in the book, "'The Big Silence' is a unique work of art: it should have confirmed Corbucci's reputation, as a talent equal to Sergio Leone.  But no one saw it."Cox himself first saw it in France, where he was a teenage exchange student.  Cox--who prefers to translate the Italian title ("Il Grande Silenzio") as "The Big Silence"--calls Corbucci's film "probably the greatest of all Spaghetti Westerns."Jean-Louis Trintignant stars as Silence, the mute gunslinger who's been enlisted to fight for the people of Snow Hill.  In a rare costarring role for a black woman in a Western, Vonetta McGee excels as Pauline Middleton, the young widow who vows revenge for the murder of her husband.  Luigi Pistilli plays Henry Pollicut, the usurer who finances the oppression of the people, and Frank Wolff plays Sheriff Burnett, who's been sent by the governor of Utah to bring order to Snow Hill.The best performance is turned in by Klaus Kinski as Loco, the bounty hunter who leads the bad guys.  Loco isn't easily rattled, and his countenance says, "Don't tread on me."I think of my favorite Western, Sergio Leone's "For a Few Dollars More" (1965).  Leone's bounty hunters--The Man in Black (Lee Van Cleef) and The Man with No Name (Clint Eastwood)--kill for money and for justice.  In "The Great Silence" (1968), Corbucci tells a different tale.  The bounty hunters--Loco and his gang--kill for money and for the love of murder.Corbucci (born 1926) and Leone (born 1929) grew up under Mussolini's dictatorship.  They were in their teens when Hitler occupied Italy in 1943.  The Sergios' generation loved American Westerns when they were kids.  When they started making their own movies in the 1960s, however, they thought most American Westerns were overly optimistic and too sentimental.  Leone is credited with taking the Western in a darker direction.  Corbucci took it further."The Great Silence" (1968, color) is the most visually gorgeous film I've ever seen.  Others are certainly in a class with it: Orson Welles's "Citizen Kane" (1941, black and white); Howard Hawks's "Red River" (1948, black and white); John Ford's "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (1949, color); Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" (1958, color); and Stanley Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon" (1975, color).In lamenting the decline of Corbucci's career in the 1970s, Cox says of "The Great Silence" (1968): "Corbucci had striven to be original, to try some radical new things.  He had succeeded, quite remarkably."I couldn't agree more.  I have to note two vital contributors: cinematographer Silvano Ippoliti, whose camera work in the Italian Alps gives us the scenery for Snow Hill, Utah; and composer Ennio Morricone, whose brooding, beautiful music is perfect for such a discordant film."The Great Silence" (1968) is a chiller, and it's my #6 movie of all time.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    the best Spaghetti Western
  

*by C***S on Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2024*

having watched most of both Sergio's libraries (Leone and Corbucci), I will go on a limb and say that this is the best spaghetti western made

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Great for One Hour Forty Mins. Ending destroys whole movie.
  

*by J***H on Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2023*

Great movie for all of one hour and 40-ish mins. The ending however places the movie in the "No rewatchable" category.  At least with Duck you Sucker, the hero dies on is own terms and not in such a pathetic manner as this movie.I can see though where Tarantino got his inspiration for Hateful Eight. The only difference between that movie and this one, is it rewatchable.In the end, I'm glad I decided to rent the movie instead of buying it.

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