SHOWING on

Dir:   Sergio   Leone   -   HD   Digital   presentation   -   1   hrs   36   mins   -   Sp/It/USA 1964 This   is   the   movie   which   created   the   revolutionary   new   genre   of   the Spaghetti    Western,    an    Italian    coproduction    shot    in    Spain    and directed   with   inspirational   pulp   passion   by   Sergio   Leone   –drawing on   Kurosawa.   It   made   a   star   and   a   legend   of   Clint   Eastwood.   He   had been   the   impetuous   young   Rowdy   Yates   on   TV’s   Rawhide,   an   open- faced   boy   with   a   pleasant   singing   voice.   In   this   movie,   he   suddenly, terrifyingly    grew    up:    hat,    poncho,    grizzly    growth    of    beard,    short cigar,   eyes   perpetually   screwed   up,   as   if   staring   into   the   sun   or suppressing   a   grimace   of   incredulous   disgust.   The   Man   With   No Name   and   the   brutal   Dollars   movies   were   a   colossal   rebuke   to   the blander     Rawhide-style     westerns     that     had     come     to     dominate television. The   other   figure   that   became   a   legend   here   was   composer   Ennio Morricone,   for   his   extraordinary   musical   score   –   sometimes   with plaintive    and    slightly    nasal    trumpets    that    declaimed    his    robust Aranjuez-type   pastiche,   and   sometimes   the   main   theme   with   its whip-poor-will      whistling      cries,      whip-cracks,      bells      and      eerie percussive    shouts.    The    blaringly    dubbed    dialogue    from    bit-part players adds to the dreamlike quality of the film.

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SATURDAY, 30th MARCH - 7.30pm

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