Day of Anger

2/11/2021

The main lesson of this film may be “Never mistreat the garbage man, you don’t know how skilled of a gunslinger he is”. Kidding aside, it’s actually a great film about a character’s journey, and features a well written development hardly seen in Spaghetti Westerns, and still manages to be very entertaining. The film tells the story of Scott (Giuliano Gemma), son of a prostitute and an unknown father, who is the garbage man in Clifton, and how he rises to a position of influence in the town, thanks to the help of Frank Talby (Lee Van Cleef)’s lessons. Scott has a phenomenal arc, as he stays in between his own goals and personality and Talby’s pulling of his strings, until the inevitable confrontation between the two. The final conflict has one of the best examples of foreshadowing and c

2/8/2026

Rather than just chuck their waste out of the window, the more demure residents of “Clifton” used the services of “Scott” (Giuliano Gemma) to collect their unmentionables in a bucket on a trailer, then take it out of town for a decent burial. He’s the son of a prostitute and would probably be treated appallingly by the townsfolk even if he didn’t smell like a sewer. Things change for the better a little, though, when wandering gunslinger “Talby” (Lee Van Cleef) hits town and takes a bit of a shine to this put-upon lad. Gradually, instead of him being picked upon he starts to be able to fend for himself. What brings “Talby” to this unremarkable town? Well we soon learn that he has something of a grudge to settle of his own, but where might that leave the newly empowered “Scott” - especially