Death Rides a Horse (aka Da uomo a uomo, or As Man to Man) is a 1967 spaghetti western directed by Giulio Petroni, written by Luciano Vincenzoni, and starring Lee Van Cleef and John Phillip Law. Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge. On his journey, he finds himself continually sparring and occasionally cooperating with Ryan, a gunfighter on his own quest for vengeance, who knows more than he says about Bill’s tragedy. The film has lapsed into public domain.
The main theme of Death Rides a Horse is used in Kill Bill.
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Great movie would like to see more like this great action and drama.
Watched this here a while ago and enjoyed it.
I should have read the credits more often in the past.
I had never heard his name before seeing him on Retrovision.
Checked out IMDB and found he has made over 170 movie and TV appearances!!!
I like this guy…too bad I didn’t find out about him until long after he was dead.
Checking out the list of titles, I know I’ve seen quite a few of his movies in the past…just didn’t know who he was.
“Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me”. (LVC)
Any more that are public domain? I’d love to see them.
Hey Max. Lee Van Cleef is one of my al time favorites. I think that Retrovision has a couple of movies on here. Also,Google video has a few as well. Retrovision is a great site and one could only imagine how could Kevin could do if more movies were public domain. Sadly,with the law now I dont think that many public domain films will follow in the future. Sad really. You probably already know this,but Lee Van Cleef is in the Sergio Leone Trilogy(The Good,The Bad and the Ugly,Fistful of dollars,A few dollars more!)all three films are fabulous. Fist,Few and then the G,B and Ugly in that order. The Good,Bad and ugly is the best of the bunch in my opinion with Eli Wallach co-starring with Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef. Wallachs character is Tuco and he plays off Eastwood wonderfully in this film. One of my all-time faves. I too,became a fan of Van Cleef much later than I would have liked,however,he left a large body of good work. You can find about 10 of his films on the net if you look hard enough. I suggest to watch any that Retrovision has..here on Retrovision. The quality and speed is much better here than on some other sites. Kevin does a great job with Retrovision. Sorry for rambling…enjoy Van Cleefs work. He did a lot of television shows like Bonanza,Big Valley,Rifleman etc. I am done now..LOL.
Petroni must have been a great student of the Kurosawa school of directing. There were more than a few directional techniques borrowed from the master.
Most of Kurosawas’ plots were used for popular movies.
“Starwars” was adapted from a movie by Kurosawa named “The Hidden Fortress”.
His most successful film was “Seven Samurai” adapted into the movie “The Magnificient Seven” A Kurosawa flick called “Yojimbo” was adapted into two films: “Last Man Standing” starring Bruce Willis in the main role and another film along the same lines that I can’t recall.
There is a huge difference between Petroni and Sergio Leone. But they both share the same lineage: Akira Kurosawa.
An excellent western classic with Lee Van Cleef,would like to see more of his films on Retrovision.
http://retrovision.tv/bonanza/ has an episode with Lee VanCleef called “Bloodlines”.
Yojimbo and Sanjuro were adapted into A Fist Full of Dollars, and A Few Dollars More. I found the films “Last Man Standing” and “13th Warrior” poor remakes of classic films
a classic and good western it’s worth seeing !