There is an excellent opening scene with Marco Leonardi being saved from the gallows by someone shooting out the noose and he escaping while still tied, killing assailants with the knives hidden in the tips of his boots, and fleeing the mob while sweeping the hangman’s daughter (Ria Celi) up onto the back of a horse. Outlaw Johnny Madrid (Marco Leonardi) and Esmeralda (Ara Celi), the hangman’s daughter
It is a touch that cleverly resolves Bierce’s mysteriously unexplained real-life disappearance South of the Border in 1914. Bierce wrote short story collections such as Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891) and The Devil’s Dictionary (1903) and a good number of horror stories, most famously the original deathdream fantasy An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1891) – see the film version An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1961). One particularly clever touch is the winding in of actual history, adding as a major character Ambrose Bierce, the real-life writer best known for his biting cynicism. The Hangman’s Daughter‘s novelty is to take the story back and set it a century before the other two films as a Western.
#From dawn till dusk 3 series#
Subsequent to this, there was also the tv series From Dusk Till Dawn (2014-6).Īll three From Dusk Till Dawn films retain the same basic idea – a group of outlaws on the run who end up at The Titty Twister and are forced to survive up against vampires. The surprise is that From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter is actually the best of the three films. The first two films disappointed – From Dusk Till Dawn felt like two different films stuck together, while Texas Blood Money conducted a more interesting variation on the central premise but was killed off by Scott Spiegel’s pretentious direction. The success of From Dusk Till Dawn was followed by two South African-shot released-to-video sequels, From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999) and this. The Hangman’s Daughter was the third of the films that began with the cinematically released Quentin Tarantino-Robert Rodriguez collaboration From Dusk Till Dawn (1996). The parties must set aside their differences in order to fight off the vampires. As they settle in for the night, they discover that the bar is inhabited by vampires presided over by the priestess Quixtla. The various parties arrive at a saloon bar in the middle of nowhere. Disgusted at Reece’s worship of him, Johnny instead leaves her to hang. Johnny is also joined by his mysterious saviour, a teenage girl Reece who wants to become his apprentice. Johnny rejoins his bandits and they raid a stagecoach containing the drunken American writer Ambrose Bierce, on his way to join Pancho Villa’s revolution, and husband and wife John and Mary Newlie, missionaries on their way to deliver Bibles. The hangman swears revenge and gathers a posse. Johnny makes an escape, sweeping the hangman’s daughter Esmeralda up and taking her with him after seeing her abused by her father. In the 1910s, the outlaw Johnny Madrid is about to be hung in a small Mexican town when a stranger shoots out the noose.
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