apursansar

I'm basically echoing what I posted on the message board (i'm the only person to post there so far). I'm a big fan of Westerns, and this one is terrific. If ya've seen it, post on the message board. Dialogue, acting, Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn, all bad ass. If I ever find this on DVD, I'm buying it. I guess I need to fill up a few more lines, so here is some b.s. I'd never seen Anthony Quinn before I watched La Strada, an Italian film by this guy named Fellini, and if you haven't seen his films, let me tell you, he is god. Anyway, it was Quinn who played a strong-man in La Strada, all his dialogue was in Italian, and I'm not Italian, but I'll go ahead and say it was an impressive performance. Now that I've seen him in Last Train from Gun Hill, I'm even more impressed. For anyone out there who actually reads this, I am telling you to rent La Strada. Not just for Quinn. Giulietta Masina, the other lead role (a girl who travels around with Quinn), I don't even know what to say about her, she'll knock your socks off. Watch that and then watch Nights of Cabiria, and you'll see what might be the most unique and truly great performance ever put on film.

This is one of the single most powerful films I've ever seen. Having been to India several times and knowing to an extent what it's like for the poor kids that have to make it on the streets, it really gets to me. I know that it received quite a bit of critical acclaim when it came out, but I didn't discover it until recently, and, judging from the number of votes that its gotten on this site, it doesn't seem as though too many people have seen it. I hope more people do; these kids don't have much of a voice in their own country, let alone the rest of the world, but movies like this give them one and it should be heard by everyone.

This is one of the single most powerful films I've ever seen. Having been to India several times and knowing to an extent what it's like for the poor kids that have to make it on the streets, it really gets to me. I know that it received quite a bit of critical acclaim when it came out, but I didn't discover it until recently, and, judging from the number of votes that its gotten on this site, it doesn't seem as though too many people have seen it. I hope more people do; these kids don't have much of a voice in their own country, let alone the rest of the world, but movies like this give them one and it should be heard by everyone.