The Big Gundown (dir. Sergio Sollima, 1966)
“What bothers you about me?”
“I’ve got nothing against you. It’s the law you broke that counts.”
“Ha, so that’s it. And why does the law count?”
“You mean you don’t know?”
“I do know a law. The one that says most of the world is two parts: the masters, and the poor peons.”
One of my all-time favourites too. Love Corbett, so competent, so fallible, open to change. But why …
… spoiler ahead …
Must nearly all partnerships in Italian Westerns end with the two heroes parting? Because the alternative is them not parting and living happily ever after?
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