For the fans of Spaghetti Westerns, this is a true gem. Never miss a chance to watch Lee Van Cleef when he is on horseback.
DAY OF ANGER is a solid addition to the spaghetti western genre, shot in attractive Almeria (as with so many films of this genre) and with fine performances from two leads who made the genre their own. The director behind this one, Tonino Valerii, also handled the popular likes of MY NAME IS NOBODY and A REASON TO LIVE, A REASON TO DIE.
As Spaghetti westerns go, Day of Anger is not that bad, thanks mainly to a crisp performance from Lee Van Cleef. Gemma is not bad, either, although is swift conversion from broom boy to fastest gun in town is tough to swallow.
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.
With few new decent Western movies being made nowadays good spaghetti Westerns are not be missed.Day of Anger is a classic of the genre.
Out of some 500 italian Westerns produced, 'Day of Anger', ranks in many top 20, or even top 10 fan lists. I'm not sure where it lies in mine but it has to be strongly considered at any number.
DAY OF ANGER stars two of the spaghetti genre's superstars. Lee Van Cleef is the fast gunslinger, Giuliano Gemma is the young man, son of a prostitute, made fun of and treated shamelessly by the town that is taken under the wing of the older, more experienced man.
"He was a born a wolf". What a fantastic Lee Van Cleef western, one of the best.
As was so often the case, the only thing that lets this spaghetti western down is the atrocious dubbing. Otherwise Tonino Valerii's "Day of Anger" is a remarkably fine and suitably violent addition to the genre with Giuliano Gemma's garbage-boy being taught the art of gun-figting by gunslinger Lee Van Cleef.
