CRY, ONION! is Italian director Enzo G. Castellari's addition to the comedy spaghetti western genre, and highly influenced by the spoofery of the Terence Hill/Bud Spencer team. The great Franco Nero plays a permed gunfighter called Onion, who, you guessed it, has a passion for eating raw onions. Watching Nero goofing around and munching down on onions while grinning manically turns out to be very funny, and that silly permed hair of his helps a lot too. Bizarrely, he's been dubbed by a guy who sounds just like Jimmy Stewart in the English version. The plot is nothing special and sees Onion helping out a group of orphaned kids in their struggle against a ruthless oil baron. There's plenty of action and humour here, even if most of it is lowbrow, and I appreciate the surrealist touches, like Martin Balsam's mechanical hand. CRY, ONION! isn't quite up there with the best of Spencer & Hill, but it does the job well enough.
Review of Cry, Onion
