As of today 2.5 times as many non-us users than US users voted for this film.
US users 170 7.0
Non-US users 408 7.1Ranked #63 Western among non-us voters.
In Germany it's pretty popular. Most of the better assorted video rental places have the DVD.
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oh really?
how interesting!
i wonder why?
i wonder why?No good hero.
Oh! You mean, it's too realistic? LOL!
shareGermans are really into the culture of the Western United States during the 19th century. Don't ask me why, but it really appeals to them.
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John Wayne is less popular.
But there are some more Westerns like VERA CRUZ.
E.g. MAN OF THE WEST seems to have more German fans, too.
It's almost, but not quite, a revisionist Western -- way before the revisionism of the 60's. At first, it seems there are no heroes, only the anti-heroes. The exception being the Juaristas, who just seem pathetic.
Trane seems almost as purely mercenary as Erin, although hints at his deeper nobility are given throughout, and then toward the end we find out that he is trying to earn big money to restore his old plantation -- and to rebuild the lives of many others on that plantations, and then at the very end he falls for the girl, sympathizes with the Juaristas, and even cries after having to kill Erin.