Navajo Joe (DVD)

Sergio Corbucci made his directorial debut in 1951 and largely concentrated on the then popular sword and sandals films the Italian film industry was burgeoning with as was their Hollywood counterpart. But following the collapse in demand for films of that type in the early 1960s he, like so many others, turned his attention to the newly coming western genre. In 1964 he then directed the western Massacre at Grand Canyon, and followed this the following year with Minnesota Clay, neither proving to be particularly successful as they lacked the spice what made the concurrent Sergio Leone films so memorable. But in 1966, Corbucci really hit his stride, most obviously from ...  Read the complete review