¡Three Amigos! is the second spoof to make the countdown, this one helmed by John Landis and produced by Lorne Michaels starring ”Saturday Night Live” vets Chevy Chase and Martin Short plus ”SNL” hosting legend Steve Martin. They play three clueless Silent Movie stars on the outs with their studio whom a small Mexican town hires as protection from marauding bandits, having mistaken one of their adventure films for a newsreel. It was a box office dud at the time but it found its audience on cable and video and makes the MoFo countdown with a plethora of votes. OK, maybe not a plethora, El Guapo, but five votes and one of them was a 23-point third placer.
The Bravados ain’t no comedy. It is a tale of revenge where Gregory Peck tracks down the men he believes raped and murdered his wife. A nicely shot spectacle in Cinemascope, if you only know Peck as Atticus Finch you may be surprised by the righteous fury he portrays here, building to a redemptive conclusion. Lee Van Cleef is one of the marked men and it was supporting slimeballs in movies like The Bravados, The Tin Star, and High Noon as well as dozens of hours of television Westerns that attracted Sergio Leone to him and eventually turned him into an icon. The Bravados was only on three ballots, but two of them were top ten votes (a sixth and a seventh).
The Bravados ain’t no comedy. It is a tale of revenge where Gregory Peck tracks down the men he believes raped and murdered his wife. A nicely shot spectacle in Cinemascope, if you only know Peck as Atticus Finch you may be surprised by the righteous fury he portrays here, building to a redemptive conclusion. Lee Van Cleef is one of the marked men and it was supporting slimeballs in movies like The Bravados, The Tin Star, and High Noon as well as dozens of hours of television Westerns that attracted Sergio Leone to him and eventually turned him into an icon. The Bravados was only on three ballots, but two of them were top ten votes (a sixth and a seventh).
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"Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream it takes over as the number one hormone. It bosses the enzymes, directs the pineal gland, plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to Film is more Film." - Frank Capra
"Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream it takes over as the number one hormone. It bosses the enzymes, directs the pineal gland, plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to Film is more Film." - Frank Capra
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