In the third instalment of A Fistful of Film we return to The Ill Repute for The Great Silence (1968), a bleak Western by Sergio Corbucci. Set in Utah during the late 1800s, it takes the conventional western into the snow. Silence (Jean-Louis Trintignant) has taken a vow of silence, defends a small community forced to survive by the local banker, Pollicut, who is taking money from the bounty hunters. One of these bounty hunters is Loco (Klaus Kinski) who is working for the local corrupt banker. This politically charged western is often renowned as one of the most tragic westerns. With the master Ennio Morricone providing a haunted and twisted score setting the dreary undertones in the barren white filled woods.

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