Vonetta McGee - Great Silence scenes (1968)

Vonetta McGee (January 14, 1945 -- July 9, 2010) was an African American actress who made her debut in 1968 as the eponymous character in the Italian comedy Faustina. In the same year she performed alongside Jean-Louis Trintignant and Klaus Kinski in the Western The Great Silence, but became well-known for her parts in the 1972 Blaxploitation films Melinda and Hammer.

The Great Silence (Il grande silenzio, 1968), or The Big Silence, is an Italian spaghetti western. It is widely considered by critics as the masterpiece of director Sergio Corbucci. During Winter 1898 the rough weather brings hunger and privation to the small village of Snowhill in Utah. In order to survive, the poor people start to steal and rob. Therefore they become outlaws and have to hide in the mountains, because of the bounty rewarded on them. While people are suffering, the village becomes a paradise for bounty hunters, who can hardly be opposed by the poor, who are labelled as outlaws.
When Pauline's husband falls prey to the unscrupulous bounty hunter Loco (Klaus Kinski), she hires a mute gunfighter, Silence (Jean-Louis Trintignant), to kill Loco.

The film is famous for its bleak ending, a bloody scene in which the sympathetic characters are gunned down by the greedy bounty hunters, "all according to the law," as Loco comments. The film is probably one of the most brutal, cynic, dark and nihilistic spaghetti westerns ever made among this genre.

Vonetta McGee died from cardiac arrest on July 9, 2010. This video clip from film Great Silence is tribute to her.

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[MrGermanyjon]

She was great in "the Eiger Sanction" with Clint Eastwood too :)