The story takes place in Spain, not Mexico, as the plot line says, but who cares? Gilbert Roland - without a moustache - gives here a splendid performance, as usual, as this priest who gives everything he has to help people. This kind of character is really for him. Thomas Gomez is also at his right place. You can expect much Christianity here and something that could make you think of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN scheme, at another scale. This could have been a movie, and not only an episode. Look out for the sequence where Roland reminds his bullfighter past, he who tried so hard to forget his own tragedy. Unexpected ending but satisfactory although.
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Death in a Village
Prismark103 August 2022
Set in 1961. A old scarred man arrives in a village that is afraid.
The young men are disappearing, the villagers are afraid. The priest has vanished thought to be dead.
The scarred man turns out to be a priest. He was once a bullfighter who became scared of the bull.
When the bandit arrives demanding more young men to take away, a lustful eye in the young women and promises of good times for the village in the future.
The priest finds himself having to put away his fears and not be frightened to die as one young man seeks sanctuary in the church.
A stodgy story that might have worked better at 30 minutes length. The story owes a nod to the Seven Samurai type of tales.
The young men are disappearing, the villagers are afraid. The priest has vanished thought to be dead.
The scarred man turns out to be a priest. He was once a bullfighter who became scared of the bull.
When the bandit arrives demanding more young men to take away, a lustful eye in the young women and promises of good times for the village in the future.
The priest finds himself having to put away his fears and not be frightened to die as one young man seeks sanctuary in the church.
A stodgy story that might have worked better at 30 minutes length. The story owes a nod to the Seven Samurai type of tales.
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