What's that film?

luckat

What's the film with the endless series of turnarounds, with a couple of seedy guys making their way through the American West in the US Civil War - there's one famous scene where they're trying to work out which army is approaching them, and they recognise the uniforms as grey and greet them as Southerners, only for the captain to take off his hat and slap it off his trousers, shaking off the dust and revealing the blue uniform underneath it.

Thought it was A Fistful of Dollars, thought it was The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, but neither is right... going cracked here.

mr kr0nik

Yeah, its similar to the one where that guy said he was going after the tall fella but then your woman said no and he ended up causing a fight in that bar...

Lawless_Samurai

For a few dollars more maybe? It's defo with Eastwood in it because I remember him in that scene

luckat

Very clever! </admire>

I think the movie starts with a man about to be hanged, and his partner in crime shoots the rope....

I have the scene playing in my head. I can even whistle the piece of music used when the captain cleans the dust from his hat. I'm almost certain it has Eastwood in it.

luckat

Sorry, Lawless, was </admire>ing mr kr0nik.

Not For a Few Dollars More - Wiki'd it and the plot isn't right.

This is a picaresque comedy - every scene begins and ends with a fast turnaround; for instance, someone bursts in to kill someone in a bath; the bather shoots him from under the suds; the wall beside the bath is blown in by the advancing troops.

humanji

luckat wrote: »

Very clever! </admire>

I think the movie starts with a man about to be hanged, and his partner in crime shoots the rope....

That's The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, I'm sure of it!

Lawless_Samurai

luckat wrote: »

I think the movie starts with a man about to be hanged, and his partner in crime shoots the rope....

That happens in The good the Bad and the Ugly. Not right at the start but near enough to it. I'm nearly sure thats the film you're thinking of... Its one from the Dollars trilogy and the good the bad and the ugly is about getting gold from a dead confedirate solider so I'm pretty sure its that one.


OP how come you're sure its not?

luckat

I started to watch The Good, The Bad And The Ugly and it opened with a long depressing standoff scene in a farmhouse in Mexico. Maybe I abandoned it too soon?

humanji

Lawless_Samurai wrote: »

That happens in The good the Bad and the Ugly. Not right at the start but near enough to it. I'm nearly sure thats the film you're thinking of... Its one from the Dollars trilogy and the good the bad and the ugly is about getting gold from a dead confedirate solider so I'm pretty sure its that one.


OP how come you're sure its not?

Here's the wiki page. It describes to two scenes mentioned: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_good_the_bad_the_ugly

humanji

luckat wrote: »

I started to watch The Good, The Bad And The Ugly and it opened with a long depressing standoff scene in a farmhouse in Mexico. Maybe I abandoned it too soon?

I don't knwo how anyone could abandon that film. For shame!

ZOLTAN28

It is definitely 100% The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Key-Connors

the uniform scene and the the bit wit the hanging is definitley good the bad and the ugly.tuco shouts something like death to general grant and then he slaps the dust.

luckat you abandoned it way to early. it only gets better and better and the end is unbelievable.

MoominPapa

The Good,the Bad and the Ugly bout half way down the plot summary. Brilliant scene in a brilliant movie

luckat

Ooookay, I'll try it again. Remember it as less serious and more fun.

Karl Hungus

luckat wrote: »

This is a picaresque comedy

If it's a comedy, then maybe it's something parodying The Good, The Bad and The Ugly?

BlitzKrieg

luckat wrote: »

What's the film with the endless series of turnarounds, with a couple of seedy guys making their way through the American West in the US Civil War - there's one famous scene where they're trying to work out which army is approaching them, and they recognise the uniforms as grey and greet them as Southerners, only for the captain to take off his hat and slap it off his trousers, shaking off the dust and revealing the blue uniform underneath it.

Thought it was A Fistful of Dollars, thought it was The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, but neither is right... going cracked here.

It is the Good the Bad and The Ugly

That scene where the army is approaching and its Northeners covered in dust is what sets them up for being in put in a prison camp and meeting angel eyes.

The film opens with a drawn out scene in a mexican farm but then it cuts to tuco being saved from hanging.

I assure you its the Good the Bad and the Ugly

100% positive