Early Euro Western Double Bill
Wild East Productions releases two early Euro Westerns that were made and released around the same time as Sergio Leone's Dollars films and before their impact changed the look and feel of the genre. First up is a West German/Spanish co-production 'A PLACE CALLED GLORY'-1965 , a film which starred Lex Barker and Pierre Brice who were famous for their series of westerns based on the characters of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand by Novelist Karl May. German filmmakers Alfred Vohrer, Harald Philipp and Hugo Fregonese were behind them but this film was directed by British Director Sheldon Reynolds here billed as Ralph Gideon. Its combines two storylines, one involving an annual gunfight put up by the town of Glory which involve two hired guns to shoot to the death , the other involving turf wars between a family and gunmen out for the taking. Barker is a bounty hunter after outlaw Brice but doesn't realize it's him until the concluding gunfight is at hand. Meanwhile, both are caught up...
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