Ace High

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Summary: Terence Hill & Bud Spencer, Eli Wallach.
Review: Also known as Four Gunmen of Ave Maria (1968), Have Gun Will Travel (1968), Revenge At El Paso (1968), Revenge in El Paso (1968), I Quattro' dell'Ave Maria.
You won't hear the real voices of Terence Hill and Bud Spencer in this one. They were dubbed. Bud is so manly, he don't even like the fuss of having his picture taken. Eli Wallach managed to take $3000,000. Ultimatly, everyone including his victims are after him. Filmed in Mexico, Almeria Spain, and Rome.
You can also catch Eli Wallach in The Good, The bad and the Ugly (1966).


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Summary: Loaded deck shoots blanks
Review: Considering the sensational cast (Eli Wallach, Terrence Hill, Bud Spencer, Kevin McCarthy and Brock Peters), the Euro-western era it was made in and the locations where it was shot, Ace High is a major disappointment. The plot is uninvolving and incoherent, the cinematography is cramped and completely lacking in style, the music is weak during a time that spawned so many memorable soundtracks and the direction lacks any focus whatsoever. The editing looks like it was performed with a butcher's knife. After the first ten minutes, I knew I'd made a mistake buying it. A boring 120 minute piece of junk, Ace High is hopelessly outgunned by any number of great Italian westerns including Corbucci's The Mercenary or Parolini's Sabata series. Save your fistful of dollars for a better film.

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Summary: What about Sabata?
Review: I like this film very much, but when are they going to put the three "Sabata" films on VHS or DVD? Lee Van Cleef made the first and third. Yul Brynner made the second Sabata and in some ways was the best. "Ace High" is a good film from the same mold of Leone's trilogy. Yet "Ace High," "Sabata," "Death Rides a Horse" and others look second rate though in the same genre. Terence Hill however does bring "Ace High" up one notch the more I think about it.

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Summary: What about Sabata?
Review: I like this film very much, but when are they going to put the three "Sabata" films on VHS or DVD? Lee Van Cleef made the first and third. Yul Brynner made the second Sabata and in some ways was the best. "Ace High" is a good film from the same mold of Leone's trilogy. Yet "Ace High," "Sabata," "Death Rides a Horse" and others look second rate though in the same genre. Terence Hill however does bring "Ace High" up one notch the more I think about it.

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Summary: C'est du Terence et Bud sauf que...
Review: Je suis un fan des films de Terence Hill et ce spécialement lorsque c'est joué avec Bud. Si vous écoutez ce film en français vous serez probablement déçu puisque la traduction de Terence ne lui ressemble pas. De plus Terence a un air trop sérieux qui lui enlève l'air sympatique que l'on retrouve dans ses meilleurs films. Par contre pour les inconditionnelles des films de Bud Spencer et Terence Hill, vous aimerez!