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Synopsis
Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla Basco, but a former business partner of Yolaf's- John 'The Wooden Hand', has other ideas.
Cinematic DNA
Corbucci, in particular, he’s one of my all-time favorite directors. It’s like if God had to pick a spaghetti Western director, it would be Corbucci. There’s a poetry to his violence. And his movies are so political. He has a sensibility that is very much in line with mine. ... Which ones of his do you like? Django, of course. The Great Silence, totally. And then he did a bunch of Zapata Westerns, like Compañeros and The Mercenary. They’re fantastic. And they’re also about the Mexican Revolution
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This Film Influenced
→ Django Unchained (2012)
Films with Similar Themes
arms dealing · prison escape · betrayal · guerrilla warfare · revenge
