{"id":25550,"date":"2018-08-09T09:07:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T15:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=25550"},"modified":"2018-05-04T09:09:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T15:09:20","slug":"ringo-and-his-golden-pistol-1966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=25550","title":{"rendered":"Ringo and His Golden Pistol (1966)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/298940-westerns-johnny-oro-poster-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/298940-westerns-johnny-oro-poster-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/298940-westerns-johnny-oro-poster-768x1032.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/298940-westerns-johnny-oro-poster-762x1024.jpg 762w, https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/298940-westerns-johnny-oro-poster.jpg 855w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><br \/>\nCorbucci&#8217;s fourth Spaghetti Western is likable enough, but it&#8217;s still a long way from the baroque style of his subsequent example in the genre &#8211; DJANGO (1966) &#8211; much less the ultra-bleak outlook of his masterpiece, THE GREAT SILENCE (1968). Besides, star Mark Damon &#8211; made up here to look like the long-lost brother of Bob Dylan&#8217;s Alias character in Sam Peckinpah&#8217;s PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID (1973)! &#8211; lacks the screen presence of Franco Nero, let alone the intelligence of Jean-Louis Trintignant! He still has fond memories of the film, however, since he mentioned it during the Italian B-movie retrospective at the 2004 Venice Film Festival (which my brother and I attended)!<\/p>\n<p>Apart from presenting an unusual &#8211; and perhaps unlikely &#8211; alliance against the cowboys by Mexicans and Indians, the film has a healthy sense of humor: after he&#8217;s insulted in a bar, Damon orders the protracted preparation of a concoction made up of some ungodly ingredients &#8211; only to then throw it in the face of his opponent!; later, facing up to three bad men without his coveted golden pistol, he blows them all away by unceremoniously throwing a bomb in their midst!; sheriff Ettore Manni&#8217;s jail has a frequent customer (to the point where he has come to consider it his home!) in a pint-sized old man &#8211; told by the former that he can&#8217;t stay any longer, the latter commits &#8220;wilful damage to public property&#8221; by breaking the jail&#8217;s windows as soon as he exits and, turning himself in immediately, he is thus able to keep his place in jail! <\/p>\n<p>The film manages to end with a bang: Damon blowing up the main street of the town (it seems that&#8217;s all we ever get to see from it in any Western!) &#8211; followed by a memorable showdown (involving Damon&#8217;s gold-plated paraphernalia). Carlo Savina&#8217;s title tune is catchy, too: the film was originally called JOHNNY ORO and, therefore, has no relation to the two earlier &#8220;Ringo&#8221; titles made by director Duccio Tessari and starring Giuliano Gemma!<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corbucci&#8217;s fourth Spaghetti Western is likable enough, but it&#8217;s still a long way from the baroque style of his subsequent example in the genre &#8211; DJANGO (1966) &#8211; much less the ultra-bleak outlook of his masterpiece, THE GREAT SILENCE (1968). Besides, star Mark Damon &#8211; made up here to look like the long-lost brother of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-b-movie-news","wpcat-1-id"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/298940-westerns-johnny-oro-poster.jpg",855,1149,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/298940-westerns-johnny-oro-poster-145x145.jpg",145,145,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/298940-westerns-johnny-oro-poster-223x300.jpg",223,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/298940-westerns-johnny-oro-poster-768x1032.jpg",768,1032,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/298940-westerns-johnny-oro-poster-762x1024.jpg",762,1024,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/298940-westerns-johnny-oro-poster.jpg",855,1149,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/298940-westerns-johnny-oro-poster.jpg",855,1149,false],"gridflex-1422w-autoh-image":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/298940-westerns-johnny-oro-poster.jpg",855,1149,false],"gridflex-1074w-autoh-image":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/298940-westerns-johnny-oro-poster.jpg",855,1149,false],"gridflex-360w-300h-image":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/298940-westerns-johnny-oro-poster.jpg",223,300,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin1","author_link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?author=1"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Corbucci&#8217;s fourth Spaghetti Western is likable enough, but it&#8217;s still a long way from the baroque style of his subsequent example in the genre &#8211; DJANGO (1966) &#8211; much less the ultra-bleak outlook of his masterpiece, THE GREAT SILENCE (1968). 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