‘Any Gun Can Play’ Western From Italy
Daily News
By Wanda Hale
September 14, 1968
Here we go
again! Another Italian-made Western, it is directed by Enzo G. Castellari,
spoken in English, starring two Americans, Edd Byrnes (Kookie), George Hilton
and Gilbert Roland, the old veteran from Mexico who has been a Hollywood star
since I can remember.
At the New
Forumn Theater, it’s called “Any Gun Can Play.” The advantages it has over that
big bore, “The Stranger Returns,” is that the scenery, Italy and Spain, is
really beautiful as that of our West; there is less gore and we are wise to the
fact that they’re putting us on.
THERE ARE no
good guys in the picture, they are all bad, trying to beat each other to a
hidden cache of a half million in gold dollars. Left to fight it out are the
brawler, Byrnes; the bandito, Roland, and, here we go again, the stranger,
Hilton. The Bad guys don’t lose, they win.
I could laugh
at the overacting, the cliches, but the skullduggery for 30 minutes, but not
for one hour and 43 minutes.
I've actually seen this film and it's great. I hope they remake it.
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