Double Feature: New DCP! THE BIG GUNDOWN, 1966, THE HILLS RUN RED, 1966 July 26, 2012

Thursday, July 26 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: New DCP! THE BIG GUNDOWN, 1966, Sony Repertory, 80 min. Ruthless Texas lawman Lee Van Cleef pursues fugitive Cuchillo (Tomas Milian), a peasant who has been framed for a child's murder. Working from a story by screenwriter Franco Solinas (THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS), director Sergio Sollima infuses the standard spaghetti Western formulas with a conscious sense of class-driven politics - and plenty of brutal action. In Italian with English subtitles. [DCP]
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THE HILLS RUN RED, 1966, MGM/Park Circus, 89 min. Dir. Carlo Lizzani. Ex-Confederate soldiers Thomas Hunter and Nando Gazollo turn to crime, but when a heist sends Hunter to jail and Gazollo ends up with the loot, the newly incarcerated Hunter vows revenge. When he gets out of jail, he discovers that his old partner has killed his family and teamed up with psycho Henry Silva - luckily, mysterious gunman Dan Duryea proves to be a useful ally in Hunter's quest for revenge. In English. [35mm]
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