Sunday, August 28, 2011

1969 - FIVE MAN ARMY, is an entertaining spaghetti western.

Fun spaghetti western with kind of a bizarro cast to put it mildly.  Peter Graves star of Mission Impossible is the Dutchman who has a plan to steal $500,000 in gold from a moving train full of soldiers during the Mexican revolution.


The Dutchman recruits a team much like Graves always did for the IMF force missions.  There's Bud Spenser as the tough guy, James Daly who was Chad Everett's boss on Medical Center, Tetsuro Tanba who was Tanaka in You Only Live Twice and some Italian guy.


Lots of action, a pretty good robbery sequence, Bud Spenser busting heads as usual.


What more could you ask for in an action film.  Dario Argento wrote the story and Ennio Morricone has one of his typically weird themes.

105 minutes.

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