Here is a serial I've known about since I was a kid and never saw. It has one of those neat gimmick concepts of a singing cowboy fighting robots from an underground lost empire. While it should be fun as a serial, when it's crammed into a movie form it's just too spotty to follow. Plus the print is horrendous and just about unwatchable.

Skip this and try to find the serial.

Labels: Dollar DVD, sci-fi, Westerns

So I took a chance and bought some spaghetti westerns at the dollar store. I guess I shouldn't be surprised or disappointed at what I found.

First, allow me to state that I love spaghetti westerns. I could watch any of Sergio Leone's films or Death Rides a Horse or My Name is Nobody or a score of others and enjoy them until the cows come home. Yet I found myself bored to tears with both of these.

The Grand Duel I am pretty sure I saw before on the Western Channel, although I may be wrong. Either way the print is absolutely terrible and is a strain on the eyes. I ended up dozing off a bit so if I do decide to ever give this film a chance again, it will have to be with a better print.

Captain Apache was crap. Getting past the obvious faults such as Lee Van Cleef playing an Indian (and singing, no less) and going beyond that the film just falls apart when you realize the only cool thing about the movie is Lee Van Cleef's singing ability (or lack therof.)

Since we're having a tag sale soon, I think this disc will go in the pile to sell or give away.

Labels: Spaghetti Western, Westerns

Colorado Serenade / Tioga Kid: Here's another double feature of Eddie Dean westerns that I picked up at the dollar store.

Colorado Serenade was a standard western which wouldn't have been too bad but the film quality was rotten. It was filled in Cinecolor which did not stand the test of time. Much of the film is washed out and the colors are faded. This made the film a strain to watch.

The next film on the disc was Tioga Kid. This was a bit more conventional as it was in black and white. The plot on this one was basically the old evil twin story. Eddie apparently had a long lost twin brother. Eddie of course grew up to be a lawman while his brother became the Tioga Kid. Of course this leads to many scenes of mistaken identity wrapped around a typical plot of horse rustlers.

All in all, it's worth a buck but nothing more.

Labels: Cheap DVDs, Dollar DVD, Westerns