The Forgotten Pistolero (1969)
- Original title
- Il pistolero dell'Ave Maria
- Directed by
- Ferdinando Baldi
- Genre
- Spaghetti Western
- Country
- Italy, Spain
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 32 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A gunman returns to his family estate years after his mother betrayed and abandoned him. He seeks vengeance against her and her lover, guided by his sister.
melancholicrevenge-drivenoperaticmythictensebroodingvisceraltragic
What happens
The Forgotten Pistolero (Italian: Il pistolero dell'Ave Maria, lit. "The Gunman of Hail Mary") is a 1969 Italian Spaghetti Western film co-written and directed by Ferdinando Baldi. The film is a western adaptation of the Greek myth of Orestes, subject of three famous drama-plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Ulrich P. Bruckner puts it among the "most interesting and most touching Spaghetti Westerns of the late sixties". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Hate for Hate (1967)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.