El Puro (1969)

Bemerkungen:

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S A V A G E
        Guns
                4 CLASSIC
                     WESTERNS
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                I WANT HIM DEAD
                        EL PURO
              WRATH OF THE WIND
    THE FOUR OF THE APOCALYPSE
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                A R R O W   V I D E O
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4 Western auf 4 Blu-rays.
Limited Edition Box Set (Maße: B14,1 cm x H17,6 cm x T5,6 cm). Bestandteile:

• Dünner O-Ring-Pappschuber (vorne: Cover-Art mit Arrow-Logo und BBFC15-Logo, hinten: Inhaltsbeschreibung und technische Details zu allen Filmen, EAN-Code, BBFC15-Logo, Spine links und rechts: Box- und Filmtitel, Arrow-Logo)
• Stabiler Pappschuber, nach rechts hin geöffnet (vorne: Cover-Art mit Arrow-Logo, hinten: leere Fläche, Spine: Box- und Filmtitel)
• 4 dünne Amaray Keep Cases (transparent) mit jeweils einer Blu-ray, inklusive Wendecover mit alternativem Artwork
• Poster aus rauem Papier, zweiseitig bedruckt mit zwei verschiedenen Motiven (Maße: ca. B 40,3 cm x H 50,9 cm)
• 52-seitiges Booklet, geklebt, Hochglanzcover, Seiten in Farbe, mit Bildern. Textinhalt:
  
  • Contents (S. 3)
  • I Want Him Dead - Cast and Crew (S. 5)
  • El Puro - Cast and Crew (S. 6)
  • Wrath of the Wind - Cast and Crew (S. 9)
  • The Four of the Apocalypse - Cast and Crew (S. 10)
  • Savage Guns: Frontier Violence, Spaghetti Western-Style by Howard Hughes (S. 13 - 44)
  • About the Restorations (s. 48 - 49)
  • Production Credits / Special Thanks (S. 50)

Nach Einlegen der Disc erscheint ein Einspieler mit Copyright-Hinweisen, Arrow-Logo und rechtlichen Hinweisen zu geäußerten Meinungen (0:28 Min.)

Das Menü ist musikalisch untermalt. Im Hintergrund laufen Szenen aus dem Film.

Menüpunkte:

• Choose Version
  
  • 108 Minute Version (Italian)
  • 108 Minute Version (Hybrid English / Italian)
  • 98 Minute Version (Italian)
  • 98 Minute Version (English)
• Play Film
• Special Features
• Setup

Technische Spezifikationen zur Langfassung:

• Laufzeit: 108:39 Min. (kein Abspann; "FINE"-Einblendung bei 108:23 Min.)
• Bildformat: 2,31:1 (1080p)
• Tonformat:
  
  • Italienisch Linear PCM 1.0
  • Italienisch / Englisch Linear PCM 1.0
  • Audiokommentar (Englisch) Dolby Digital 2.0
• Untertitel: Englisch
• Kapitel: 12

Technische Spezifikationen zur Kurzfassung:

• Laufzeit: 98:29 Min. (kein Abspann; "FINE"-Einblendung bei 98:13 Min.)
• Bildformat: 2,31:1 (1080p)
• Tonformat:
  
  • Italienisch Linear PCM 1.0
  • Englisch Linear PCM 1.0
• Untertitel: Englisch
• Kapitel: 12

Vor Start der Langfassung erscheint ein Einspieler mit folgendem Text:

The original Italian version of El Puro / La taglia è tua... l'uomo l'ammazzo io runs some 10 minutes longer than the more widely circulated export cut.

Unfortunately, the original elements for these additional scenes have been lost. For this presentation, these scenes were sourced from an archival print. In addition, for some brief scenes, no Italian audio could be located, so these are presented in Spanish with English subtitles.

While the quality of these elements is far from ideal, we felt it was important to bring you the complete, uncut version of El Puro.

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Herstellerangaben von der Arrow-Homepage:

Maniacal outlaws thirsting for blood! Corrupt capitalists profiting from the suffering of the common folk! Desperate people pushed to violent revenge! The Italian western has never been grittier than in this quartet of later-period cult classics, in which the trademark cynicism of the genre escalates into the radical pessimism of the late 1960s / early 1970s world.

In Paolo Bianchini's I Want Him Dead (1968), American actor Craig Hill (The Bloodstained Shadow) stars as an ex-Confederate soldier who vows revenge after his sister is raped and murdered, in so doing setting him on a collision course with a dastardly plot to disrupt peace talks between the North and South. Next, in Edoardo Mulargia's El Puro (1969; a.k.a. The Reward's Yours... The Man's Mine), western icon Robert Woods (My Name is Pecos) gives arguably his greatest performance as a legendary gunfighter forced to emerge from hiding after the bounty hunters on his tail murder the tender-hearted barmaid (Rosalba Neri, Smile Before Death) who offered him a new life.

Then, in Mario Camus' Wrath of the Wind (1970), genre superstar Terence Hill (They Call Me Trinity) shows his darker side as an assassin who finds his conscience when he and his brother (Mario Pardo, Knife of Ice) are hired by a ruthless landholder (Fernando Rey, The French Connection) to kill the leaders of a growing labor movement. Finally, Fabio Testi (What Have You Done to Solange?) and Tomas Milian (Don't Torture a Duckling) star in Lucio Fulci's Four of the Apocalypse (1975), in which a quartet of misfits go from sharing the same jail cell to embarking on a savage odyssey that will lead to torture, rape and cannibalism. Preyed upon by a ruthless bandit, the foursome fight for their lives - until the time comes for revenge.

Four of the Italian western's hardest, cruelest, bloodiest classics erupt from the screen in this feature-packed box set from Arrow Films. Featuring dazzling High Definition restorations and a wealth of brand new bonus materials produced specially for this release, Savage Guns delivers - from both barrels!
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Zu den Fassungseinträgen der weiteren Filme:

• I Want Him Dead
• El Puro
• Wrath Of The Wind
• The Four Of The Apocalypse