Day of Anger

Day of Anger (I giorni dell'ira, 1967) is Tonino Valerii's spaghetti western, ready to watch online on iFILM. A town's despised garbage boy attaches himself to a passing gunslinger and soon picks up the trade — along with a cold new way of seeing people.

Scott scrapes by at the bottom of a dusty frontier town, sweeping streets and swallowing insults while he dreams of owning a pistol. Then the seasoned shootist Frank Talby rides in, takes the boy under his wing and teaches him to draw fast, stand tall and let no slight pass. The lessons in self-respect curdle, though, once Talby starts seizing the whole town — and the pupil has to choose where he stands.

Valerii cut his teeth assisting Sergio Leone, and here he stages a clean generational duel: Giuliano Gemma's youth against Lee Van Cleef's weathered menace. Riz Ortolani's score whips the pace along, and the closing run of showdowns ranks among the genre's sharpest. A solid slice of Italian western at full tilt. Stream Day of Anger (1967) online on iFILM.