1970 · western · comedy
Compañeros (1970)
Directed by Sergio Corbucci2h 0m1970
Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla Basco, but a former business partner of Yolaf's- John 'The Wooden Hand', has other ideas.
Our read: Compañeros (1970) (1970) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded western · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured western / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- brisk
- intense
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