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Ramon avenges his brother's murder and kills the Baxter Family. The surviving Slim Baxter joins for his revenge a troubled gang, which has also a lot to settle with Ramon. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
Ramon the Mexican
1966 ‘Ramon il Messicano’ Directed by Maurizio Pradeaux
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Ramón el mexicano, Ramon le Mexicain
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Italy
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13 Nov 1966
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One of the more bland spaghetti westerns I have seen. It does have some really nice scenery and some typically good SW style music even if it is highly repetitive but the story and the characters fail to keep your attention for long stretches of the running time.
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Hamfisted acting that relies way too much on broad caricatures and is also boring. Music’s good though
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original title: Ramon il Messicano
There's a special place in hell for movies that make you want to bash your head through a wall, and “Ramon the Mexican” is certainly one of those. And not for reasons of any particular awfulness – although this is certainly a rather awful film – but for just how frustrated it makes you feel on a habitual basis. When Slim Baxter (Jean Louis) stops the rape of his girlfriend Esmeralda (Wilma Lindamar) by killing the assailant, the dead man's brother Ramon Morales (Claudio Undari), with a strong hold on their small frontier town, swears revenge; and before you know it, the bodies begin raking up on both sides of the coin as they have…
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Tepid knock-off of A Fistful of Dollars sans The Man with No Name instigator that doesn't even bother to change some of the character names. Proof positive that Maurizio Pradeaux is no Sergio Leone and Robert Hundar is no Gian Maria Volontè.
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After his brother is killed while raping a woman, Ramon il Messicano (a.k.a. Ramon the Mexican) vows revenge against his killer.
The first section of this movie feels a little unfocused. It’s a “bad guys vs. worse guys” tale and there are a lot of characters. As it went on, however, I got more and more involved. The sexual politics are dreadful, but they are all informed by heavy doses of Catholicism, which I love when it’s done well in Italian and Spanish westerns, and this movie is very well done.
Robert Hundar (who plays Ramon) doesn’t really look Mexican, but he is an unsettling physical presence and makes for a fantastic lead villain.