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A surprisingly thoughtful film, The Valdez Horses sees Charles Bronson play a half-breed rancher whose solitary life taming wild horses is upended when three people enter his life: a young runaway (Vincent Van Patten), a corrupt land owner (Marcel Bozzuffi), and his beautiful sister (Jill Ireland). Beautifully filmed in mountains of Almería, Spain, a quintessential Spaghetti Western location, Sturges’ film contrasts fist fights and shootouts with considered characterisation and an unexpectedly melancholy tone. (Powerhouse Films)
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Bronson's Chino is essentially a mustang. A wild mixed-breed horse that the white settlers aim to enclose with a fence and tame on his territory. And only he decides whether to submit or continue to roam the prairie in search of freedom and independence. After all, this symbolism is confirmed by the scene where the horseman only charges at the lady upon seeing the mating of his neighing charges. John Sturges, dissatisfied with the finished film, especially because of Mrs. Bronson and the subsequent reshoots under Duilio Coletti's patronage, combined with irritating music and the sidelining of the conflict motif, turns it into a western that gallops off into rapid obscurity.
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