Face to Face

1967

1h 52m

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History Professor Brad Fletcher heads west for his health, but falls in with Soloman Bennett's outlaw gang. Fascinated by their way of life, Fletcher finally takes over the gang, leading with a new 'efficient' ruthlessness.

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Sergio Sollima

Writers

Sergio Donati(screenplay by)

Sergio Sollima(story by)

Sergio Sollima(screenplay by)

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Gian Maria Volonté

Tomas Milian

William Berger

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Gian Maria Volonté

Professor Brett Fletcher

Tomas Milian

Solomon 'Beauregard' Bennet

Charley Siringo

Maria

Williams

Elizabeth Wilkins

Maximilian de Winton

Zachary Shawn

Vance

Aaron Chase

Cathy

Leading Citizen of Puerto del Fuego

Frank Braña

Jason

Lorenzo Robledo

Wallace

Guy Heron

Sheriff at de Winton Estate

Rossella D'Aquino

Sandy …

Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia

Taylor Henchman

Lidia Alfonsi

Belle de Winton

Directors

Sergio Sollima

Writers

Sergio Donati(screenplay by)

Sergio Sollima(story by)

Sergio Sollima(screenplay by)

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7/10

Reasons of state, Wallace. You studied history, so you know what I mean. Not out of hate... but with compassion. Faccia a facia (Face to face) is directed by Sergio Sollima and Sollima co-writes the screenplay with Sergio Donati. It stars Gian Maria Volontè, Tomas Milian and William Berger. Music is by Ennio Morricone and cinematography by Emilio Foriscot and Rafael Pacheco. Brad Fletcher (Volontè), a New England professor, is plagued by ill health and is advised to relocate to the West for better climate conditioning. Once in Texas he is unfortunately taken hostage by wounded outlaw Beauregard Bennet (Milian), the result of which begins a turning of the character based tables... Sergio Sollima followed his excellent La resa dei conti (The Big Gundown) with this similar, if more complex, classic piece of spag cinema. Often cited as a picture with deep political motives, which Sollima denied, it really is in simplified terms a story about a good man going bad and a bad man going good. There are of course political and social observations, coming as it does down in the South post the Civil War, while some of the literate philosophising rewards more on subsequent revisits to the pic. Very talky for sure, it does however contain some superb action sequences, particularly in the last quarter, which in turn is crowned by a very Leonesque finale of quality framing. The trio of lead actors, each a Spag Western legend, are on superb form, while Sollima and his cinematographers provide an epic location based scope to the piece. Be sure to not see any abridged or dubbed version, see it only in its full length with natural Italian accompanied by the various subtitle options. 8/10

John Chard24 Nov, 2019