Blindman - Digitally Remastered (DVD)

Blindman - Digitally Remastered. A blind, but deadly gunman is hired to escort fifty mail order brides to their miner husbands. When he is double-crossed by his friends and a Mexican bandit, he heads for Mexico to settle scores and save the women. Based, in part, on the true 1860s-era story of Texas blindman Luis Alcante. In the cavalcade of oddities the spaghetti western has offered to the noble art of film making, Blindman is one of the most bizarre and most extreme. It easily assimilates familiar genre cliches, such as the Mexican bandit hooked on a woman who despises him and the handicapped hero who must fight against all odds. However, you will be hard-pressed elsewhere to find a fully blind hero, or a Mexican bandit played by a longhaired lover from Liverpool. Blindman pits a sightless sharpshooter against a Mexican Beatle -- just imagine! "See it, if you must, after you eat. The New York Times.

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