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1970 was quite a good year for westerns. We had Ralph Nelson's "Soldier Blue", Don Siegel's "Two Mules For Sister Sara", Arthur Penn's "Little Big Man", Sergio Corbucci's "Vamos A Matar, Compañeros" and Giuliano Carnimeo's "A Fistful Of Lead", to name just a few, and of course there was also John Guillermin's entertaining "El Condor".
The plot of "El Condor" is fairly simple - an escaped convict called Luke (played by Jim Brown) teams up with a man called Jaroo (Lee Van Cleef) and a tribe of Apaches in order to steal a huge stash of gold from a heavily-manned Mexican fort but a few twists and turns occur in the process.
This could have been a fairly routine western but director John Guillermin (who also directed "The Towering Inferno" and the 1976 remake of "King Kong" and many other films) throws in plenty of action, including punch-ups, gun battles and explosions, to keep everything moving along nicely and the film is well-acted by a good cast. There are two stand-out scenes - the scene where a group of the fort's soldiers are slaughtered mid-nookie session and the scene where the gorgeous Marianna Hill strips off in order to distract the fort's soldiers whilst Luke, Jaroo and the Apaches scale the fort's walls and attack the fort.
My only real criticism of "El Condor" is that the ending is a bit of a downer but, that aside, it is a still an interesting and enjoyable film. This Spanish DVD gives us the option of watching the film in English (with or without Spanish subtitles) or Spanish. The film is presented in a screen ratio of 1.85:1 but I am not convinced that this is correct because the USA DVD presents the film in a ratio of 1.77:1 and I remember seeing this film on television many years ago and I am sure I caught a glimpse of Imogen Hassall's pubic hair in the scene where she is standing fully nude in the bedroom but this appears to have been cropped out of the picture on the Spanish DVD.
The plot of "El Condor" is fairly simple - an escaped convict called Luke (played by Jim Brown) teams up with a man called Jaroo (Lee Van Cleef) and a tribe of Apaches in order to steal a huge stash of gold from a heavily-manned Mexican fort but a few twists and turns occur in the process.
This could have been a fairly routine western but director John Guillermin (who also directed "The Towering Inferno" and the 1976 remake of "King Kong" and many other films) throws in plenty of action, including punch-ups, gun battles and explosions, to keep everything moving along nicely and the film is well-acted by a good cast. There are two stand-out scenes - the scene where a group of the fort's soldiers are slaughtered mid-nookie session and the scene where the gorgeous Marianna Hill strips off in order to distract the fort's soldiers whilst Luke, Jaroo and the Apaches scale the fort's walls and attack the fort.
My only real criticism of "El Condor" is that the ending is a bit of a downer but, that aside, it is a still an interesting and enjoyable film. This Spanish DVD gives us the option of watching the film in English (with or without Spanish subtitles) or Spanish. The film is presented in a screen ratio of 1.85:1 but I am not convinced that this is correct because the USA DVD presents the film in a ratio of 1.77:1 and I remember seeing this film on television many years ago and I am sure I caught a glimpse of Imogen Hassall's pubic hair in the scene where she is standing fully nude in the bedroom but this appears to have been cropped out of the picture on the Spanish DVD.
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