Master gunslinger Sabata arrives in Hobsonville, a town completely owned by McIntock, a robber baron who is taxing the inhabitants for the cost of future improvements to the town. Or that's what McIntock says he'll do with the money...

Luciano Bianchi lives with his wife and son in the small town of Guastalla. As an intellectual and bibliophile, he works as head of cultural initiatives at a mining plant.

The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.

Maurizio Merli and Tomas Milian star in probably the most typical, yet completely enjoyable Italian crime movie by Umberto Lenzi. With a blazing soundtrack by Franco Micalizzi and some exciting camerawork by Federico Zanni, this film is fast-paced and furious although the narrative makes relatively little sense. This reminds me of THE RAIDERS OF ATLANTIS, a film Dardano Sacchetti also penned, which was completely fun and enjoyable although it didn't make any sense whatsoever.
The best scenes in this movie have to be the extended car chases. Milian hijacks an ambulence and kills all the people on board for no reason. When it crashes in a crowded flea market, Milian jumps out of the ambulence and just starts randomly firing his sub-machine gun into the crowd to create enough confusion to get away. Another great scene has a gang of upper-class teenagers led by the baby-faced Stefano Patrizi who get bored of nightclubbing and proceed to rape a girl and beat up her boyfriend in a vacant lot. Patrizi is wholely unsympathetic as he punches the boyfriend in the gut repeatedly and knees him in the face, then making weird gestures with a nearby piece of wood. Merli later pops by their nightclub and smashes Patrizi's face right through a pinball machine and then simultaneously beats the tar out of the six or so members of the gang!
This film comes fast and furious. Good performances all around by a veteran cast (with Arthur Kennedy, Ivan Rassimov, and Luciano Pigozzi along for the ride). It's not the most coherent of Lenzi's works, but it's definitely a genre classic.
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In the 1830's, the island of Quemada in the Antilles is a Portuguese colony - that is, until an English agent provocateur arrives and inspires the black slaves to rise and expel the colonial authorities. However, as is always the way with revolutions, a group of middle-class power brokers seizes political control and the people's aspirations are betrayed.
Ten years pass, and the sugar industry now requires peace and stability on Quemada. The continuing guerilla campaign by the dispossessed blacks is harming profits. The very same English adventurer is once more despatched to the island, this time to hunt down and eradicate the revolutionaries he created.
Marlon Brando plays Sir William Walker in his best Fletcher Christian English accent and a blonde wig with a life of its own. His is a thoughtful performance, putting across the complexity of the man, a character who is undoubtedly cynical and unscrupulous, but who is also an emotional man and something of a political philosopher. He is certainly effective at what he does.
The direction of Gillo Pontecorvo is somewhat erratic at times. There are points where the narrative is confused, and the gold robbery which drives the plot somehow got left on the cutting-room floor. Jose Dolores' rise to power is the most significant event in the story, but we see nothing of it. During the voodoo carnival, two of the participants are wearing 20th-century soccer shorts. The film's central pivot, the passage of ten years between Walker's two visits to the island, is handled very sketchily by means of a few incongruous London scenes and a voice-over narration.
But there are good things, too. When Santiago's widow hauls her husband's body away, the masonry of the fort stands as a silent metaphor of colonial power - harsh, overbearing and sterile. Brando has some fine speeches, musing on the nature of political legitimism. The fire scenes are visually arresting (though it would have sufficed to have two or three guerillas being shot as they emerged from the burning sugar cane: seven or eight is labouring the point), and Walker is positively luminous against the tortured black shapes of the charred forest, showing in symbolic form that this man thrives on the suffering of the blacks, and that destruction is his natural element.

莱奥那多·达·芬奇1452年4月15日诞生于意大利佛罗伦萨与比萨之间的芬奇村。父亲塞尔·辟埃罗是一位公证人，母亲卡特丽娜是个农家女，达·芬奇是他们的长子，同时也是他们的私生子，生母不久改嫁，父亲又重新结婚，达·芬奇是在他祖父的庄园中长大的。达·芬奇他从小就爱好文学、音乐、数学等课程，还能弹奏一手好风琴，但他最擅长的还是绘画。1466年，约十四岁左右的达·芬奇到当时著名的画家兼雕刻家委罗基奥的工作室去学画。
1472年，约二十岁达·芬奇己正式成为画家，他的名字已被记载在佛罗伦萨画家行会的“红簿子”上，但他仍旧在他的老师委罗基奥工作室内工作，一直到1476年为止。l480年，他有了自己的工作室，但仅仅工作了两年，到1482年，他便离开了自己的故乡到米兰去。这一段时间，达·芬奇贯注全神于人体研究，姿势与表情、服装与褶襞，以及大自然的环境描写、甚至连一花一草都不随便放过。
从1482——1499在米兰生活的十七年间，达·芬奇以军事工程师、建筑师、画家及雕刻家的身份从事多种创造性的劳动，在绘画、雕刻、建筑、水利工程和机械工程等各项事业上，均取得惊人成就。他在研制、设计飞机和降落伞方面的发明创造，为现代航空运输和军事技术作出了极其宝贵的贡献。达·芬奇从八十年代就开始探索自己独特的创作道路。艺术家企图深入人物的内心世界和庞大的艺术构思。他力图通过刻画人物姿态和表情，来表现画中人物变化多端的矛盾形象
1499年10月，因法国军队入侵米兰，达·芬奇到威尼斯去避难，在威尼斯居留了几个月之后，于1500年回到自己的故乡佛罗伦萨。1506年，达·芬奇重赴米兰，最后于1516年，接受了法王法兰西斯一世的邀请，迁居法国安波斯郊外的克鲁城堡。从此，才结束了他长期的飘泊生涯，而在异国异乡度过他安静的晚年。在晚年，他和最亲近的弟子们从事技术研究、工程设计、以及手稿的整理；却很少画画，这是他创作生涯的“晚期”。l519年5月2日，达·芬奇在该城逝世，结束了他辉煌灿烂的一生。
精彩视点：
本片又名《我，达芬奇》，影片的主演菲利普·勒鲁瓦在接演本片前，曾在很多部家喻户晓的影片中塑造多个经典喜剧角色。而在本片中他主演达·芬奇，实现了形象上的大转变。
这部达·芬奇传记片大胆地提出一个假想，把他的生平事迹、绘画作品像解谜语一样生动地组合在一起，并在影片中加入了解说人这一角色。《达芬奇的一生》的拍摄过程可谓是极其奢华。虽然当时已经有了一定的计算机数码技术，但制作人仍然精益求精，力求达到最真实的效果，结果导致进行大规模的布景修建。而片中的街道和城门也都是用真正的建筑材料搭建。