spaghetti western

Welcome to a new B-Movie Enema review and welcome back to Quly!

So Quly is all about over-compensating for never having done a movie that started with a Q before this month. Do I often over-compensate? Oh boy, do I. I am a fairly unremarkable white dude after all. It’s like I was BORN to over-compensate. Anyway, we started last week with the JCVD classic The Quest. This week, we continue on with another classic – 1969’s Quintana: Dead or Alive.

Quintana: Dead or Alive (or, as it was originally known, Quintana) comes to us from director Vincenzo Musolino. Musolino was an Italian actor who racked up about two dozen roles between 1952 and 1967. Toward the end of that run as an actor, he started doing what a lot of Italian actors did, appear in spaghetti westerns. His final role on screen was in one of the many, many unofficial Django sequels, Don’t Wait, Django… Shoot! In fact, starting in 1965, he began writing scripts for the movies he appeared in, and that Django flick was one of them.

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