Red Sun
by Terence Young
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Actor: Alain Delon, Capucine, Charles Bronson, Toshir? Mifune, Ursula AndressDirector: Terence Young
Cinematographer: Henri Alekan
Producer: Robert Dorfmann
Producer: Ted Richmond
Writer: Denne Bart Petitclerc
Writer: Laird Koenig
Writer: Lawrence Roman
Writer: William Roberts
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 112 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-11-14
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Fox Lorber
Movie Reviews of Red Sun
Movie Review: Cowboys and Samurais
Summary: 3 Stars
Red Sun aka Soleil Rouge is one of those gloriously demented pitches - cowboys and samurais in a French-Italian Western shot in Spain by an English director with a Swiss leading lady. As if that isn't mad enough, the villain is Alain Delon's French cowboy, who leaves his train robbing buddy Charles Bronson to take the fall after stealing the Emperor of Japan's gold sword, leaving Bronson and the Japanese ambassador's samurai bodyguard Toshiro Mifune with only seven days to track it down before the Kurosawa regular has to commit hari-kiri ("Now that's something I'd like to see!" quips Bronson). Oh, and Ursula Andress and Capucine are along for the ride, as is Terence Young regular Anthony Dawson as the screen's unlikeliest cowboy desperado. Throw in a hostile tribe of Comanches on the warpath and the editor of The Wild Bunch you should be all set for one of the best genre hybrids of the 70s. Only, sadly, while it may offer two iconic samurai for the price of one - Le Samourai and the Seventh Samurai - it isn't anywhere near as good as it sounds.
While a long way from his laziest work, Terence Young directs with more efficiency than imagination and as a result there's not too much to get excited about here. Aside from the final fight with hostiles in a burning field of tall grass the action scenes make little impression, Bronson and Mifune don't bring their A-game to the party (not too surprising with dialogue like "I think you're a helluva man." "I think you're a son of a beesh!") while it all feels rather too leisurely at 112 minutes. Then there's the rather coy nudity - Andress does undress, but only allows a glimpse of one breast and one buttock as if she only got paid half her going rate and wouldn't let the producers see the full set. Still, Maurice Jarre's eccentric score incorporating koto, dulcimer, ondes martinot, accordion and symphony orchestra makes an impression, and Delon enjoys himself as the trigger-happy black-clad villain 'Gauche.' Definitely worth a watch, but certainly not a keeper.
Cinema Club's PAL UK DVD has a good fullframe transfer with the international trailer (missspelling Delon's character name as Gotch!) the only extra.
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