The Great Silence
by Sergio Corbucci
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Actor: Frank Wolff, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Luigi Pistilli, Vonetta McGeeDirector: Sergio Corbucci
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Director's Cut, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-01-27
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Fantoma
Movie Reviews of The Great Silence
Movie Review: evidently based on a true story
Summary: 3 Stars
There is a lot to like here. I especially bought the "unusual" ending. However, the problem is this: dubbing (all the way through--not that the job of dubbing is poor, it is not, but the mere fact that you can tell it was dubbed on a sound stage bothered me enough and kept pulling me out of the film. Yes, I know it was made by the Italians--and they always shot their films without live sound and then later looped everything.
The other thing that is always annoying with these films is the clunky zooms, even though rarely (if ever) called for.
All in all, Corbucci was a pretty darn good director--even if he was a Red.
RE: Kinski. He is way better in the films he made with Warner Herzog. In SILENCE... he is simply just another actor and there is nothing outstanding about him. In fact, he seems to be smiling and/or laughing throughout, a bit unusual for him.
In my opinion, he is far more impressive when he plays intense, psychotic types.
Having said that, Kinski does portray a bad guy here and I do recommend it if you're a fan of the man's work.
Summary of The Great Silence
On an unforgiving, snow swept frontier, a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters, led by the vicious Loco (Klaus Kinski Nosferatu, For a Few Dollars More) prey on a band of persecuted outlaws who have taken to the hills. As the price on each head is collected one-by-one, only a mute gunslinger named Silence (Jean-Louis Trintignant The Conformist) stands between the innocent refuges and the greed and corruption that the bounty hunters represent. But, in this harsh, brutal world, the lines between right and wrong aren't always clear and good doesn't always triumph. Featuring superb photography and a haunting score from maestro Ennio Morricone, director Sergio Corbucci's (Django, Compa=F1eros) bleak, brilliant and violent vision of an immoral, honorless west is widely considered to be among the very best and most influential Euro-Westerns ever made.One of the best and most unusual spaghetti Westerns ever made, Sergio Corbucci's The Great Silence is set in the beautiful desolation of the snow-covered high plains. Jean-Louis Trintignant, the romantic French star of My Night at Maud's and A Man and a Woman, hardens his blue eyes into a steely stare to play the mute mercenary gunslinger "Silence." Klaus Kinski (star of Werner Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath of God and Nosferatu the Vampyre) is his target, a grinning, amiable bounty killer whose deadly logic leaves a trail of corpses in his wake, all murdered "according to the law." Corbucci, whose Django is a genre classics, complicates his trademark cynicism with the compelling contradictions of his hero and villain, and the chilly atmosphere of the frozen mountain community brings a new twist to the phrase cold-blooded murder.
Cult director Alex Cox (Repo Man) calls The Great Silence "the greatest spaghetti Western ever made" in a six-minute video interview, in which he explains his love for the film in an insightful monologue. Cox also provides optional commentary on the alternate happy ending (which otherwise plays without sound), an unusual find that was likely shot for Asian territories. --Sean Axmaker
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