Review of Compañeros (1970) by Rob R — 01 Dec 2007

I think that this is my favorite of all the non-Leone spaghetti Westerns. It has some cult craziness (Jack Palance who smokes pot, has a fake hand and a weird attachment to a pet bird), but it's clever, funny, boisterous and has an anti-capitalist political message that's not too subtle (vamos a matar, compañeros means "let's go kill, comrades").

In this film, at the end of the day, violent revolution is the only solution to the excesses of imperialist capitalist oppression.