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Charley-One-Eye [DVD] [1973]

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  • Actors: Richard Roundtree, Roy Thinnes, Nigel Davenport
  • Directors: Don Chaffey
  • Format: Dolby, PAL
  • Language: English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Odeon Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 28 May 2012
  • Run Time: 84 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B007V4G9I0
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 68,443 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Richard Roundtree (Shaft) and Roy Thinnes (The Fugitive, The Invaders) star in this savage, hard-hitting 1973 spaghetti Western. On the run in the desert near the Mexican border after killing an officer, a black soldier (Richard Roundtree) stumbles upon a lame Indian wanderer (Roy Thinnes). Struggling to survive, they reach a deserted church mission and set up camp. But the area is home to ruthless Mexican bandits and a bounty hunter (Nigel Davenport) is on the trail of the deserter. In the heat-blasted frontier wilderness life is hard and killing is easy but as the fugitives discover, the taking of just one life can change everything... Brutal, uncompromising and shocking, this rarely seen Anglo-American co-production has now been digitally restored and remastered and is available to own on UK DVD for the first time.

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After murdering his white commanding officer, a black man goes on a desperate run across the desert. There he meets a lone Indian with a gammy leg and together they become friends, sort of, and sit around in a broken down church, until they decide what to do with themselves..
After deciding on nothing, they sit around some more and eat a lot of chicken, until one day when a vicious bounty hunter comes calling looking to bring in the black man...

This is rather an odd western, one that some might argue is an overly cruel (warning: lots of chickens are killed in this!) picture with a pointless meandering plot and crude, ugly characters. Personally though I quite enjoyed it. It's a quirky, hippyish character driven piece, filled no doubt with hidden meaning ~ if you wanted to look for it that is, I didn't! I was just happy to roll with it ~ and an over riding oblique quality that will no doubt irritate some viewers used to more conventional, mainstream cinema.
Both Roundtree and Davenport are good (admittedly neither at their best!), but the show is stolen by Thinnes who puts in an excellent, almost unrecognisable performance as the Indian. Kind of reminiscent of Kwai Chang Caine from Kung Fu.
Those looking for a western filled with slick gunfights might want to look elsewhere though, because the action in this is fairly sparse, albeit strong, shocking and brutal when it hits.

The disc from Odeon is a decent full screen print, with a really grainy (purposefully?) look to the flashback scenes!
3.75/5
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This is one of quite a few,character driven revisionist westerns made in the first half of the 1970s.Its very much a two hander,between Richard Roundtree,as a soldier on the run for killing an officer.And Roy Thinnes as a native american indian he stumbles across in the desert.Roundtree's character quite aggressively dominates,the more passive Thinnes character at first,but then a unlikely bond forms between them.This really comes to the fore when,a bounty hunter,played by Nigel Davenport,who has been tracking Roundtree appears on the scene.I wont give away the plot,but this a finely acted piece all round.Roundtree is excellent,but for me Roy Thinnes delivers an astonishing performance,as the gentle,lame wandering indian.Who exactly is "Charley-one-eye"?Watch it,and find out.I recommend this,rarely seen UK/US co-production highly.(The transfer is in 4:3,but is good quality,with very little print damage,with a clear,audible soundtrack)
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very disappointed with film and story was crap I sold it to CFEX for 40p don't buy it not worth money
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HASH(0x8b09a534) out of 5 stars I really enjoyed it, since it was a new take on ... 27 Feb. 2016
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*Plot and ending analyzed*

Charley-One-Eye (1973) is one of those odd films that come across the TV late at night. I really enjoyed it, since it was a new take on the Western. It has a black man, of recent from the Union Army, now a deserter, and his injured American Indian hostage. I didn't recognize Roy Thinnes as the Indian and Richard Roundtree as the black man. Richard Roundtree shot some Union officer and seems to be on the run. A mean-spirited Bounty Hunter is on his trail, played by Nigel Davenport (Sands of the Kalahari (1965), A Man for All Seasons (1966)).

There's a lot of oddness in the interaction between the black man and his injured American Indian hostage, who are fighting for survival in the desert. It was filmed in Almería Spain, the locale for so many Spaghetti Westerns in the 1960's.

It is interesting to note how the relationship develops when they are by themselves are threatened by an outsider group. The ending was very melancholy. There is also a similar film, Eagle's Wing (1979) , where Sam Waterston plays an American Indian. Grayeagle (1977) also has Alex Cord as an American Indian.

Charley-One-Eye, like Eagle's Wing (1979), were both British productions.

Charley-One-Eye is a chicken that the American Indian has taken a fancy to and perhaps is symbolic of how American Indians were treated.
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