![]() ![]() I guess it shouldn’t come as a complete surprise that it would be a tough, no-nonsense director like Robert Aldrich to pave the way (and not just to Peckinpah, but to the grimier, more lurid pleasures of the entire Spaghetti Western genre, with even a few more of Joe’s henchmen – i.e., the bug-eyed Jack Elam and ol’ hardened grim-face Buchinsky himself appearing in arguably the greatest Spaghetti of all, Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West), a filmmaker with a predilection towards ahead of his time violence – I mean, hard to imagine how audiences handled watching – or more aptly put, listening – to the harrowing shrieks of Cloris Leachman’s doomed hitchhiker being tortured to death while the beaten up and barely conscious Ralph Meeker’s Mike Hammer lies helpless to intercede at the beginning of Aldrich’s next film, Kiss Me Deadly). Much of the filming was indeed undertaken in Mexico City and the nearby Cuernavaca valley, according to an article in the New York Times, which would seem to. Movie Vera Cruz (1954) Subtitles Genre : Adventure, Western Duration : 94 min Directors : Robert Aldrich Actors : Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel. Vera Cruz is a 1954 American Western film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster. Mix in the quick cutting (the only thing missing is slow motion), and Vera Cruz has early Sam Peckinpah written all over it (specifically The Wild Bunch, which unsurprisingly also graced us with that most indelible of character actors, Borgnine, whose blustery persona and gap-toothed Cheshire Cat grin reveals yet again just how mercurial the movie camera is in choosing who it loves, cuz it certainly loved that guy out of nowhere). An environment of cruelty – why, hell, there’s a scene were Lancaster’s Joe is literally about to order the killing of an entire Mexican town’s worth of children - by colorfully rough-and-tumble henchman Ernest Borgnine and none other than Charles Buchinsky (and if you’re a real movie fan, you know exactly who that is, just prior to his name change) – if he doesn’t get what he wants (and while he does get his way, it’s clear they woulda killed the lot of them). ![]() Were your movie poster source for new releases and vintage movie. A massive Mexican stand-off (with a bazooka-size machine gun – the type familiar to anyone who’s watched the more insanely violent westerns, Spaghetti and otherwise, from the mid-60’s into the 70’s – you know the one - designed for max carnage and optimum body count – brought out triumphantly at some point). After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. Buy Vera Cruz movie posters from Movie Poster Shop. Vera Cruz Film Time Out says A brash, lively, and totally appealing Western about a couple of American adventurers - Cooper, a decent but cynical Southern gentleman, and Lancaster, a supremely. Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster stand out in this lesser known but influential Western about two gunmen seeking their fortune in. ![]()
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