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6/10
Decent Paella/Spaghetti Western professionally directed by expert filmmaker Joaquin Romero Marchent
ma-cortes19 May 2014
One of the first Paella Western filmed in Spain with spectacular outdoors from Manzanares Del Real , and Colmenar Viejo (Madrid), location where were filmed a lot of Westerns , pre-Almeria boom . Good Iberian Western well realized by the best Tortilla Western director , Joaquin Romero Marchent . It packs crossfire , thrills , action , go riding , and lots of shots and gun-play . It's an exciting western titled "Magnificent three¨ with breathtaking showdown between the protagonist Geoffrey Horne and the enemies as Robert Hundar , Aldo Sambrell , Miguel De La Riva and other hoodlums . It deals with a family formed by father named Don César Guzmán (Geoffrey Horne) , mother (Charo Del Rio) and child living happily at their hacienda . When rancher leaves his wife without protection she is attacked by a group of heartless outlaws (Aldo Sambrell , Miguel De la Riva , Emilio Rodríguez , Lorenzo Robledo , among others) and it results in mother's murder . When he finds his spouse dead , he swears to carry out a bloody revenge . As Cesar Guzmán is relentless in his vendetta , deadly in his violence . The conflict is simple , one between avenger Guzmán against also merciless killers . As he seeks vengeance for the murder of his wife , being helped by a tough gunslinger (Paul Piaget) and a sympathetic Mexican (Fernando Sancho). They follow similar ways when seeking out vendetta for the mummy's killing .

Enjoyable Chorizo-Spaghetti Western mostly produced by Spain and Italian secondary participation ; it doesn't follow the Sergio Leone wake and being proceeded in American style . This interesting Iberian western contains a story full of vengeance , good dramatic pace and slick direction . This is a classical western before Leone's style , it is an ordinary example of American western style though it is partly Spanish and partly Italian . Interesting screenplay and story by Jose Mallorqui , a notorious writer who wrote the successful ¨El Coyote¨ series . it results to be a trilling as well as a western vengeance with lots of shots and emotion . The film packs action , thrills , shootouts , drama , high body-count and entertainment . It's an intelligent western with spectacular outdoors and breathtaking confrontation among protagonists , three implacable friends : Geoffrey Horne , Paul Piaget and Fernando Sancho against the heartless enemies such as Ralf Baldassarre , Aldo Sambrell , John McDouglas and of course , the ordinary nasty Robert Hundar in similar role to ¨Brandy¨ by Jose Luis Borau . Charismatic performance for whole casting . Special mention to notorious Spaghetti actor Robert Hundar -pseudonym of Claudio Undari a Sicilian actor specialized in western films- , he is magnificent as a violent gunfighter dressed in black ; he steals the show as a merciless bandit similarly to Jack Palance's Shane . Fantastic performance by the always great Fernando Sancho in a likable role , subsequently he would play similar characters , furthermore the slimy, menacing outlaw played by Aldo Sambrell , here in his ordinary role as bandit and in a cruelly baddie character . Furthermore, there appears usual Italian/Spanish Western support actors , a largely secondary cast filled with familiar faces , all of them ordinary in Chorizo/Spaghetti western , such as Lorenzo Robledo , Miguel De La Riva , Emilio Rodriguez , Simon Arriaga , Rufino Ingles , Xan Das Bolas , Jesús Guzman and many others . The musician Manuel Parada composes an atmospheric soundtrack , well conducted and with agreeable leitmotif , including catching songs at the beginning and the end . Passable cinematography , though being necessary a perfect remastering , filmed by cameraman Rafael Pacheco on locations in Manzanares Del Real and Colmenar Viejo , as usual ; including good sets by Jaime Perez Cubero and Jose Luis Galicia who carried out the most Production Design on Western shot in Spain . They made a little town called ¨Golden City¨ where filmed several Westerns as ¨Welcome Padre Murray¨ , ¨Brandy¨ , various ¨Zorros¨ directed by Marchent and this one .

The movie titled "Tres Hombres Buenos" or "Sons of Vengeance" or ¨Implacable Three" or "Magnificent Three" or ¨3 Implacables¨ was well produced by Copercines/Eduardo Manzanos Brochero who produced various films for Marchent brothers as Joaquin Romero Marchent : ¨Cabalgando Hacia Muerte¨; and Rafael Marchent : ¨Quien Grita vengeance¨, ¨Two crosses in Danger Pass¨ and PEA/Alberto Grimaldi , previously to produce his successful trilogy of dollars/Sergio Leone . The motion picture was decently directed and in traditional style by recently deceased Joaquin Luis Romero Marchent (1921-2012) at his best . He was an expert writer and director of good Western . His first film was ¨El Coyote¨ and the sequel titled ¨Revenge of Coyote¨ shot in Mexico . After that , he filmed ¨The shadow of Zorro¨ and ¨Revenge of Zorro¨. He went go directing Western as ¨ Riding to death ¨ , ¨Adventures in the West¨ , ¨Three good men¨, ¨Sabor Venganza ¨ and the most popular and violent ¨Condenados a Vivir¨ . Plus , he wrote for his brother Rafael Romero the followings Western : ¨Manos Torpes¨, ¨Ocaso un Pistolero¨ and ¨Garringo¨ . Rating : Acceptable , a nice Paella Western that has its entertaining moments.
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4/10
A Routine Spanish Revenge Oater with a Whodunit Plot
zardoz-131 January 2010
Warning: Spoilers
Before he made "The Implacable Three," sometimes called "The Magnificent Three," Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent made two "Zorro" westerns with Frank Latimore. These "Zorro" westerns were forerunners of the Spaghetti western. Marchent went on to helm six more oaters. "The Implacable Three" qualifies as a standard story of revenge. Marchent gets the western outfits right and the western characters tote around Winchester rifle. However, without exception, everybody seems to be wielding English style revolver that break open at the hammer like a Smith & Wesson to be reloaded.

A rancher leaves his wife without protection at their hacienda and rides off to herd his cattle. Seven gunslingers invade his house and are stealing him blind when his wife awakens and confronts them. The leader of the gang strangles her to death, but before she dies, she tears a stick pin off his lapel. When he finds his wife dead, Don César Guzmán (Geoffrey Horne of "Bridge on the River Kwai") set out on the revenge trail and eventually picks up two like-minded individuals. After the mysterious killer strangled his wife, he blew up Guzmán's safe to steal the money. He blasted the safe because he knew the combination and one of his accomplices suggested that he blow the safe so that Don César would not know that the thief knew him. Don César rides into town and promptly finds himself in the middle of a gunfight in a saloon where he kills three of the gunslingers that struck at his hacienda, one of whom is none other than Spaghetti western stalwart Aldo Sambrell.

A gunfighter strings along with Don César and they ride the country for two years searching for the murderer. Eventually, they return to the hacienda and Don César finds that things have changed in town. The mayor is a conniving villain and wants Don César dead. The next big event is the arrival of a two-gun Mexican gunslinger (the indispensable Fernando Sanchez) that plays a good guy for a change. He aligns himself with Don César and his friend.

All European westerns appropriated the theme of the face-to-face duel and created variations on it. In "The Implacable Three," they restrict the chances that an innocent bystander will catch stray lead by having the duelists shoot it out in the dark in the cellar of the saloon. When one of the hero's partners kills the slimy skunk of a mayor Hopkins, Nino McCoy (Robert Hundar) arranges it so that Don César and his friends are trapped in the saloon and McCoy mounts a massive shoot out to wipe them out. Of course, friends of Don César ride to his rescue. Marchent stages a huge gunfight when the ranch hands from a nearby hacienda pour into town to help him. Eventually, Don César learns the identity of his wife's killer and they shoot it out.

"The Implacable Three" is an ordinary western, distinguished by absolutely nothing. Scenarist José Mallorquí specialized in writing Continental westerns and this is just another formula sagebrusher. Since it was made before "Fistful of Dollars," "The Implacable Three" bears a greater resemblance to American horse operas. This western appears to have been lensed on the same town set that Sergio Leone converted for "Fistful of Dollars," but there is no water tank in the center of town and what would become the home of Don Miguel Rojo is the saloon that Don César and his friends hole up in while the villains wait for them to try to escape. Actor Geoffrey Horne who is best known for "The Bridge on the River Kwai" never made another movie to equal David Lean's masterpiece.
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