The Big Gundown
A veteran bounty hunter and would-be senator is tasked by a railroad baron with hunting down a crafty, knife-wielding Mexican peasant accused of the rape-and-murder of a young girl. Jonathan Corbett i…
The Big Gundown
A veteran bounty hunter and would-be senator is tasked by a railroad baron with hunting down a crafty, knife-wielding Mexican peasant accused of the rape-and-murder of a young girl. Jonathan Corbett is a gunman so brave to have eliminated all the bandits of Texas. For this he is proposed for the candidacy to the Senate of the United States. In exchange he has only to support the construction of one railway line. Only after he accepts does he come to know that the Mexican Cuchillo has raped and killed a 12 year old girl. Corbett leaves on a long manhunt during which he gets to know his adversary better and discovers a variation on the crime for which the accused Cuchillo may not be as guilty as he first thought. —Baldinotto da Pistoia, translated by Philip-12 Corbett, an ex sheriff, ex casino owner cum bounty hunter n now having the ambition to run for the Senate, is famous in Texas for cleaning out the whole area of outlaws. He is given an assurance in campaign funding by a railway tycoon in exchange for catching Cuchillo, a rape n murder accused. What ensues is a manhunt thru the rugged landscapes where the hunted is a Machiavellian person but with moral codes. —Fella_shibby@yahoo.com
The Big Gundown
Drama,Western
Film Details
A veteran bounty hunter and would-be senator is tasked by a railroad baron with hunting down a crafty, knife-wielding Mexican peasant accused of the rape-and-murder of a young girl. Jonathan Corbett is a gunman so brave to have eliminated all the bandits of Texas. For this he is proposed for the candidacy to the Senate of the United States.
In exchange he has only to support the construction of one railway line. Only after he accepts does he come to know that the Mexican Cuchillo has raped and killed a 12 year old girl. Corbett leaves on a long manhunt during which he gets to know his adversary better and discovers a variation on the crime for which the accused Cuchillo may not be as guilty as he first thought.
—Baldinotto da Pistoia, translated by Philip-12 Corbett, an ex sheriff, ex casino owner cum bounty hunter n now having the ambition to run for the Senate, is famous in Texas for cleaning out the whole area of outlaws. He is given an assurance in campaign funding by a railway tycoon in exchange for catching Cuchillo, a rape n murder accused. What ensues is a manhunt thru the rugged landscapes where the hunted is a Machiavellian person but with moral codes.
—Fella_shibby@yahoo.com.