CHINO (1973) *1/2 Charles Bronson in spaghetti westerns, and John Sturges directin' 'em, is a good idea. I got some issues when they mix in too many children and ponies and Christmas trees. Point in fact, the best part of the film is when Charles go into town to get drunk and throw cowboys through windows. The entire romance thing with Jill Ireland would probably be too much to bear, if there was much of anything to it, but I'm shocked to suggest that there may actually be a life lesson in there if you consider her final scene and where it leaves her, and then project against a Kierkegaardian construct of Faith. Which is probably blasphemy if you do it wrong, so maybe it would be better just to figure out if she gets what she deserves. But anyway Guido and Maurizio De Angelis' musical score is absolutely tremendous, sounds like something Neil Young might compose if he was raised by a Cheyenne Indian father and a gypsy mother from Napoli.
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