Companeros
Companeros is a 1970 film from Italy, Spain and West Germany, directed by Sergio Corbucci, running 115 minutes. reelscum files it under spaghetti western.
- Year
- 1970 · 1970s films
- Country
- Italy · Spain · West Germany
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Director
- Sergio Corbucci
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- known (29/100)
- Also known as
- Companeros
Defined in the glossary: Spaghetti western
Zapata western with Franco Nero and a very good Morricone theme.
Sergio Corbucci's Zapata western, with Franco Nero as a Swedish arms dealer and Tomas Milian as a Mexican revolutionary, thrown together across a chaotic, funny, violent border. Jack Palance turns up as a one-handed sadist with a pet hawk and a grudge.
It is more playful than Corbucci's bleak films, but the politics are real underneath the banter, and Morricone's title theme is one of his most propulsive. The mismatched-partners structure carries it.
One of the most purely entertaining spaghetti westerns, with a conscience under the fun.
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