Lee Van CleefDeath Rides a Horse (Da uomo a uomo)

I remember seeing this movie years ago and looked forward to watching this again. The start of the movie is not the very beginning, it is cut off. Whether it is only seconds or minutes there is no way to tell. It appears to be a copy of a copy of a coply. The sound and video is extremely poor and is painful to watch. So, as you can tell this one star is not for the movie itself, it is for the poor quality that Amazon shamefully pushed off onto us. I would have hated to have paid for a rental of this copy. I dont think any rating is truly valid considering the above. I'd love to see a good quality version. Ah, well, wishes...

I was hoping to watch this on Prime Video. It's pan and scan and possible some of the worst quality I've seen since flood salvaged VHS. Seriously, this shouldn't even be offered on Prime with such a poor source copy. The picture is cropped, audio terrible. Inexcusable.

I'm going to chirp in with all the others that have complained about the AV quality. So bad that i think this could damage the eyes as well as give major headache.Including this is shoddy work by Amazon. We don't pay for this kind of trash with Prime membership. ... Amazon should remember we can cancel at anytime.

Spaghetti western. I have always hated these. I should have known when it said Lee van Cleef that it was just another Spaghetti western. But this one has the worst picture quality I have ever seen in my life. The sound is just as bad too. To me the spaghetti western always seemed to be thrown together with the cheapest of cameras, the cheapest of sound equipment, and the lowest of budgets. I look back on Clint Eastwood film career and have always wondered how he ever got where he was playing in the spaghetti westerns that he played in. I watched about fifteen seconds of this movie. Jumped to ahead in the movie and saw this for what it was. another worthless spaghetti western and I knew I wasn't going to waste my time on it. I turned it off, deleted it from my watch list and that is the extent of my experience with this movie. I thought from the title and the intro that it would be a good movie. 45 seconds showed me I was mistaken. If you like cheap made spaghetti westerns that are really bad quality, this is a must see for you. Good luck.

This DVD is worth the $10 and then some. If you had Death Rides a Horse on one or more bargain Spaghetti Western collections like myself, there's a good chance those copies are washed out, blurry or worse. I hate the prints so much I declined to watch this along with others just as bad. This Wild East release is a six-gun salute to quality, with several nice extras. Fans of the genre may differ on the film's merits, but assuming you'd like to see a pristine print of this well-paced revenge classic, you can sit back with your favorite beverage and enjoy.

A highly-regarded second-tier Spaghetti western, this one stands out to me for several reasons, but first and foremost the clever braiding of two Western archetypes into one narrative thread.John Philip Law plays a young man, haunted by the rape and murder of his entire family that he witnessed as a child. After being rescued from the burning farmhouse by a mysterious stranger, the clock is turned many years forward, and we witness him training his shooting skills in a scene that presages many kung-fu training sequences we'd see on screen later in the decade. While that sequence is very much euro-western in feel, Law's character is pure Oater - he "reckons" a lot, he drops lines like "before anybody kills me, they gotta get my okay. And I don't think I'm gonna give it to 'em!"He crosses paths with Lee Van Cleef, a mysterious gunslinger straight out of jail and hot on the trail of those who framed him. Cleef's character is Pure Spaghetti West, and that's the clever hook of this film - the kid is the old school, pure-Oater, twangy white-hat western hero, and the oldtimer is the New Wave.There's tension, they cross swords more than one, and each wants his pound of flesh without the help of the other, but over the course of the film they naturally become a team. The tension comes in knowing that they'll have to settle with each other down the road, if they both live long enough. It's reminiscent of the even better THE AVENGING EAGLE that way.Well worth a couple of hours of your weekend afternoon, and Wild East gives us a nice-looking transfer.

This review is for the Wild East DVD. This is the version you need to see; widescreen, better color than the PD prints and good extras. The widescreen image alone is worth the price. This is the best digital version we will have unless MGM decides to put out a blu ray. Not a Leone film but Ennio Morricone did the score and Lee Van Cleef is his usual self. Can't go wrong.

As clean and clear as the Blu-Ray version, but without the freezing and skipping. This is the most beautiful transfer of DEATH RIDES A HORSE I've seen. One of Lee Van Cleef's best Italian Westerns, with the usual background players from the Sergio Leone films and John Phillip Law, one of the mid-Sixties' biggest male heartthrobs, at least for a moment or two.

Couldn't give this full marks because it hasn't one of Ennio Morricone's best musical scores and John Phillip Law is far too wooden as one of the two leading protagonists. Yeah well there is wooden like a plank and there is wooden like a branch which at least moves in the wind.Pipe smoking Lee Van Cleef uplifts the film with his usual laid-back stance : a man who acts with his cougar eyes and cheeks and minimum dialogue, but when he speaks you'd better listen. It's an art form and sadly Law didn't have it and Van Cleef and Mr Clint Eastwood DID have it in abundance.It's a good spaghetti western for fans of the genre but probably will not stimulate anyone else's palate. The plot is atypical of the genre being about revenge in this case, the gunplay and set pieces are well handled (though not Leone standard), the cinematography is excellent throughout though this print is not remastered and some of the scenes set in poor natural light such as the opening scene in a rain storm and at night are very patchy. But this is not the kind of film that will ever get the remastering treatment like thousands of old westerns, you have to take what's given sadly.It's certainly a better print than the one on the compilation of nine films 'Spaghetti Westerns' which I have also viewed.This is the MGM version, format 16:9 widescreen, with English dubbed audio (I swear?) and English HOH subtitles, length 110 minutes, 4 minutes less than the version on the compilation box set (which is poor visually).

Although possibly not a classic of the Italio western genre, this is still well worth taking a look at. Although I think it could do with being a bit shorter-it's 110 mins.It features a very good soundtrack by Ennio Morricone(at a time he could do little wrong) & sturdy direction from Guilio Petronia with some memorable scenes,that certainly gets the job done.Along with a clear print quality in 2.35:1 (Technicolor:Techniscope),filmed by Carlo Carlini & with the always watchable Lee Van Cleef,with good support from the likeable John Phillip Law & whole batch of Italian & Spanish genre regulars.The film looks like it had a good budget & is also well dubbed. So I think dedicated fans of Eurowesterns could easily add another star to my rating .The film has English,German ,French ,Italian and Spanish language versions and has subtitles in all these and Dutch.-2009 MGM version.

Slam-bang Italian western from 1967, starring the incomparable Van Cleef, an actor I much prefer to Clint Eastwood. The opening scene may prove a little disturbing, but it provides the motivation for John Philip Law's character to go gunning for the bad guys. The music by Morricone is first-rate, too. This is pure entertainment - and without the often irritating gibbering of a Walter Brennan, the whimsical oirishness of a Victor McLaglen, or the winsome girlies of far too many Hollywood movies. Italian directors must have sent the word out to all the sexiest actresses and models in Rome to dress up as barroom whores!

Enjoyable spaghetti western with Lee Van Cleef leading the way in the action and acting. Conversion to DVD is fine. Not the most original story line but typical of a spaghetti western. Two men, one old and experienced, one young and green, both crack shots, find a common reason to work together to shoot lots of baddies. One minute one of the heroes has the upper hand, the next the other hero, or the baddies.Film cracks along at a good pace with regular bouts of bloody action, some humour, and little love interest.Worth a viewing or two at least.

I saw this film at the Coronet theatre [formerly the Atlas] in Victoria when it was first released. I remember enjoying it,however at the time I was a teenager and perhaps easier to please. I became interested in seeing it again when I heard some of Ennio Morricone's sound track music from it being use in Kill Bill . Finding a watchable copy of the film in Canada has been a real problem, all of the dvds available are god awful cheesy cheap public domain copies. I was happy to find this MGM copy from the U.K. [ it does have to be played on a all region dvd player though]. So after finally watching it all these years later, I still think the movie is an enjoyable spaghetti western. The direction,sets,photography are nowhere near as stylish as in a Leone western. The score by Morricone is good and elevates the movie. Lee Van Cleef, as always, is great to watch. John Phillip Law is also fun to watch though at times I swear he's doing a parody of John Wayne.