The Big Gundown
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- This article is about the spaghetti western film. For the album by John Zorn, please see The Big Gundown (album).
| The Big Gundown | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Sergio Sollima |
| Written by | Sergio Sollima Sergio Donati |
| Starring | Lee Van Cleef Tomas Milian Walter Barnes Gerard Herter |
| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1966 |
| Language | English and Italian |
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The Big Gundown (Italian title: La resa dei conti - roughly Account Rendered) is a 1966 spaghetti western directed by Sergio Sollima and starring Lee Van Cleef and Tomas Milian.
It falls in to the subgenre called Zapata Westerns which are spaghetti westerns with some political context usually concerning the Mexican revolution.
Many consider The Big Gundown one of the finest spaghetti westerns second only to the Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy. It was the first film Van Cleef made following The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and was his first leading man or hero role. Tomas Milian played Cuchillo who is a charming rogue accused of rape and murder. Van Cleef as Jonathan Corbett hunts him down to help further his own political ambitions. But all is not what it seems.
Run Man Run was a sequel which brought back Tomas Milian without Van Cleef.
- Tagline: Mr Ugly Comes To Town!
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