Keoma (film)

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Keoma is a 1976 spaghetti western by Enzo G Castellari starring Franco Nero and Donald O'Brian Keoma is considered to be one of the finest westerns ever made and the last great film of the genre.

[edit] plot

Keoma (Nero) returns back to his home town to find his brothers have sided with an outlaw, and with the help of his father, a family friend he vows revenge. Keoma also saves a dying woman froma mine full of plague victims.

[edit] notes

  • Franco Nero is a major western star, akin to John Wayne, George Eastman and Clint Eastwood.
  • Its scenes of slow motion, gun fights, an anti hero and musical soundtrack place it at the top end of the western genre.
  • It follows the plot line of Django which many westerns did.