Red Dead Redemption Hype Week: Red Sun

Tonight's feature film for Red Dead Redemption Hype Week is director Terence Young's 1971 classic Red Sun starring Charles Bronson "as an outlaw named Link who teams up with Kuroda (Toshirô Mifune), a noble samurai warrior, to track down a jeweled sword that the Japanese ambassador gifted to the U.S. president. The unlikely pair travels across the American Southwest in search of Gauche (Alain Delon), who double-crossed Link and made off with the priceless weapon."

It's the old Honor-Among-Thieves theme throughout the movie. Link is a typical anti-hero outlaw train robber without honor, which suits him fine until he gets double-crossed by another outlaw without honor! It's fitting that Link and Kuroda, a Samurai whose entire life depends on finding the sword in 7 days or he will kill himself out of devotion to his master, pair up to try and find Gauche.

We're getting knee-deep in betrayal, robbery, and outlaws, and it's only two days into Red Dead Redemption Hype Week. Stay tuned as we move toward the classics that defined the genre: Spaghetti Westerns.