This sequel to Gunfight at Rio Bravo takes our lead and brings him into a plot where women were taken from their Western town by sex traffickers to be sold to rich men, bring our hero and his friend the Sheriff to go save these ladies and end the traffickers.
Director Jacob Thompson’s “Gunslingers” is a great modern ode to the classic movie western that explores the universal idea of the gunslinger. Although it might be a badge of honor to be considered the best gunslinger in the west, there will always be someone coming around challenging you. And that is a curse to bear that will end with someone buried underground.
Out on Blu-ray on April 30, 2024, from Arrow Video
A bounty hunter passing through town assists a newly minted Sherriff in his duty, showing him the ropes as he once was in his shoes.
An older gunfighter finds his way to a town where he must make decisions regarding his own mortality and his legacy.
A Marshall brings a wanted man to a small western town where the local sheriff and a mysterious gunslinger end up having to help as the man’s gang come to free him.
I can’t fault Zack Snyder for essentially giving us a sprawling remake of Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” when he seeks to build a new “Star Wars” for the modern generation. “Star Wars” was, as many know, a quasi-remake of “Hidden Fortress.” Another by Kurosawa. It all comes full circle, as Snyder seeks to build a massive mythology in the vein of “Star Wars.” He really wants “Rebel Moon” to be “Star Wars”; at the end of “A Child of Fire”—well—he creates a movie that has been done before but to a much better effect (ahem–“Firefly”).
In this box set, the re-releases of Italian Western classics by Arrow Video continues with I Want Him Dead, El Puro, Wrath of the Wind, and Four of the Apocalypse in restored versions.