User: Phil H
From The Spaghetti Western Database
Phil's personal corner on the SWDb
Phil Hardcastle is from London, England and is a lifelong Western movie fan in general and Spaghetti Western fan in particular. Phil writes reviews of Spaghetti Westerns under the pseudonym Son of Django (You can check them out here) and you may see his name pop up from time to time in booklets and commentaries on various Bluray releases. He is a long time contributor and editor of the Spaghetti Western Database. City: London, England.Key links
- Contact me: tbc
- My Forum Profile
- My SWDb Contributions (scroll further down for reviews)
- SWDb sources: Staff, About, Contribute, Donate
- External Links: Son of Django Blogspot
Appearances and citations
Acknowledgements/Cited/interviewed in:
- 10,000 Ways to Die (Alex Cox, Kamera Books,2009)
- Renegade Westerns (Kevin Grant, FAB Press,2018)
- Various Bluray Booklets including The Sabata Trilogy, Run Man Run and The Specialists (Eureka) plus A Pistol for Ringo/Return of Ringo (Arrow) and Vengeance Trails and Blood Money box sets (Arrow)
Publications
- Directory of World Cinema: Italy 2011 (L. Bayman ed) - Day of Anger (Review)
Reviews and articles
Other articles:
- Brett Halsey Interview
- An Interview With Robert Woods
- Robert Woods and Marc Fiorini on El Puro
- Interview with Alex Cox
- Rolling Roadshow Leone Edition Coverage
Book Reviews:
- Review: Cinema Retro’s feature on The Five Man Army
- Brett Halsey Art or Instinct in the Movies Review
- 10,000 Ways To Die Book Review
- Any Gun Can Play - Book Review
- Spaghetti Westerns - Howard Hughes Book Review
- Cinema Italiano - Book Review
DVD Reviews:
- The Man Called Noon DVD Review
- Django, Prepare a Coffin DVD Review
- Storm Rider (Il Grande Duello) DVD Review
- Any Gun Can Play DVD Review
External Reviews:
- 7 Guns for the MacGregors
- 7 Women for the MacGregors
- $1000 on the Black
- $10,000 Blood Money
- Apocalypse Joe
- Arizona Colt
- Arizona Colt Returns
- Between God, the Devil and a Winchester
- The Big Gundown
- Black Jack
- Blindman
- The Bounty Killer
- Brother Outlaw
- Bullet for Sandoval
- Bullets Don't Argue
- California
- Cemetery Without Crosses
- Challenge of McKenna
- Cjamango
- Clint the Stranger
- Companeros
- Cowards Don't Pray
- Day of Anger
- Days of Violence
- Django
- Django Kill!...If You Live, Shoot
- Duello Nel Texas
- El Puro
- Face to Face
- A Fistful of Dollars
- Four of the Apocalypse
- Fury of Johnny Kidd
- God Forgives...I Don't
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Hate Thy Neighbour
- The Hellbenders
- A Hole in the Forehead
- The Implacable Three
- In a Colt's Shadow
- I Want Him Dead
- John il Bastardo
- Johnny Hamlet
- Johnny Yuma
- Kidnapping
- Kill or Die
- Kill Them All and Come Back Alone
- Killer Kid
- Little Rita of the West
- Lola Colt
- Matalo!
- The Mercenary
- Minnesota Clay
- A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die
- My Name is Pecos
- Navajo Joe
- No Room to Die
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- One After Another
- One Silver Dollar
- Requiescant
- The Road to Fort Alamo
- The Return of Ringo
- Return of Sabata
- Sabata
- 7 Dollars on the Red
- Sometimes Life is Tough, Eh Providence?
- Son of Django
- Sonny and Jed
- The Specialists
- Starblack
- A Stranger in Town
- Sugar Colt
- Tepepa
- Texas Adios
- They Call Him Cemetery
- Those Dirty Dogs
- Vengeance
- Why Go On Killing?
- A Woman for Ringo
- Wrath of God
- Yankee
Pictures
Mark,Phil, Aarron, Sebastian and Rod during the trip to Almeria (Spain 2008)
Phil and Seb in London, 2015
Phil and Seb at the Bud Spencer Museum Berlin (Germany 2022)
My Top Lists
My current top 30:
- 1 Return of Ringo
- 2 For a Few Dollars More
- 3 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- 4 Once Upon a Time in the West
- 5 Cemetery Without Crosses
- 6 The Big Gundown
- 7 Django Kill!
- 8 Django
- 9 $10,000 Blood Money
- 10 A Bullet for the General
- 11 The Great Silence
- 12 A Fistful of Dollars
- 13 Face to Face
- 14 The Ruthless Four
- 15 Johnny Hamlet
- 16 Bandidos
- 17 Fury of Johnny Kid
- 18 Day of Anger
- 19 Companeros
- 20 Run Man Run
- 21 Death Rides a Horse
- 22 A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
- 23 Forgotten Pistolero
- 24 Tepepa
- 25 El Puro
- 26 The Bounty Killer
- 27 Blindman
- 28 Fistful of Dynamite
- 29 Hole in the Forehead
- 30 Death Sentence
More stuff
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