Saturday, May 15, 2010

El Condor (1970)

Directed by John Guillermin
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)

Jim Brown escapes from the chain gang and hooks up with Lee Van Cleef to search for gold in the desert. They find Patrick O'Neal as General Chavez, living in hedonism as the king of his own country at a remote fort. Brown, Cleef and their army of Indians use the old Trojan horse trick to get in, leading to a massacre. Jim Brown gets the girl and Cleef the gold, or so they think. Excellent soundtrack by Maurice Jarre. I had a problem with the graphic bullfight and some of the horse falls looked a little too real.

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