Face to Face
Face to Face is a 1967 film from Spain and Italy, directed by Sergio Sollima, running 112 minutes. reelscum files it under spaghetti western.
- Year
- 1967 · 1960s films
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Director
- Sergio Sollima
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- known (29/100)
- Also known as
- Face to Face
Defined in the glossary: Spaghetti western
Sollima's smartest western: watch a decent man discover he likes it.
The middle film of Sergio Sollima's political western trilogy, and the one with the sharpest argument. Gian Maria Volonte plays a tubercular New England history professor who heads west for his health, falls in with Tomas Milian's bandit, and slowly discovers a talent for command and cruelty he never suspected. It is a western about how respectable men become tyrants, written with real conviction, and Morricone scores it. Sollima never got Leone's reputation, but he had more on his mind than any of them. If you liked The Big Gundown, this is the better film.
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