1970 · actor-gunfighter · gold · savona
Apocalypse Joe
Directed by Leopoldo Savona1h 30m1970
Travelling actor and gunman Joe Clifford inherits a gold mine from his uncle. Returning to claim the mine, he finds town boss Berg, his uncle's murderer, controls it instead. Clifford sets about avenging his uncle, recovering the mine and freeing the town from Berg using both shooting and thespian skills.
Our read: Apocalypse Joe (1970) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded actor-gunfighter · gold · savona entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured actor-gunfighter / gold, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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