Day of Anger (1967)
7/10
A dull take on the tutorship genre saved by Van Cleef's towering personality.
18 October 2019
I saw this recently for the first time. I found the film to b a bit boring n dull. Mayb after revisiting The Big Gundown, my expectations were high. Westerns shud have memorable showdowns, exciting duels n music but this film is devoid of all these except the music is lil decent in this. The villain who challenges Van Cleef didn't have a scary build up. The character of Scott Mary ain't shown learning to shoot n suddenly he becomes a top notch shooter. This wannabe gunfighter wears designer shirts n shows disrespect to Doc Holliday's gun.

Initially the film starts like a take on discrimination regarding class n caste but then it slowly became dull. The film deserves a 6 but I am generous with 7 cos of Van Cleef.

This film falls into the Tutorship genre where a younger protagonist seeks the more or less reluctant partnership of an older one, but differences of motivation eventually bring them into conflict. Death Rides a Horse is a better choice than this.
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