Companeros!
1971, R, 117 min.
Directed by Sergio Corbucci, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Fernando Rey, Jack Palance, Tomas Milian, Franco Nero.

The Alamo’s all-you-can-eat pasta, focaccia, and Caesar salad Spaghetti Western Spaghetti Feast returns with this violent Italian Western about gunrunners during the Mexican Revolution. Corbucci joins Leone as the other great master of the spaghetti Western, and with this terrific cast and a score by Ennio Morricone, Companeros! is a genre standout.

This article appears in March 22 • 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.