The Specialists / Gli specialisti (Sergio Corbucci, 1969)

Just a few words about the locations (outside the towns).

Like said from others, locations are in Dolomite (but at the heart of the Alps properly said not ā€œpre-alpsā€).

The wonderful landscapes shows the following mountains:

  • ā€œCroda da Lagoā€, ā€œLastoni di Forminā€, ā€œM. Cerneraā€, ā€œNuvolauā€, ā€œAverauā€ and ā€œCinque Torri (Five Towers)ā€
  • The mountain range of ā€œSorapissā€
  • Peaks and spires that belongs to ā€œLe Tofaneā€ (like the foregroung of the titles flying crows)
  • The ā€œCroda Rossa dā€™Ampezzoā€ at twilight
  • North faces of ā€œPopenaā€ - ā€œCristalloā€ groups & Val Fonda (little canyon)

The camera was mainly located in the area near ā€œCol Druscieā€ and ā€œPrati di Rumerloā€ (Rumerlo meadows), at that time touched by a car track and cableway.
The last of the above list instead was shooted from Val Popena Bassa; with more precision: when the sheriff and Hud enters riding in a creek bed, well, itā€™s the lower part of Val Fonda in the Cristallo group.

Recently the entire Dolomite region becam UNESCO World Heritage Natural Sites.

For a view: Cortina Dolomites : Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering : SummitPost

[quote=ā€œGarabombo, post:121, topic:243ā€]Just a few words about the locations (outside the towns).

Like said from others, locations are in Dolomite (but at the heart of the Alps properly said not ā€œpre-alpsā€).

The wonderful landscapes shows the following mountains:

  • ā€œCroda da Lagoā€, ā€œLastoni di Forminā€, ā€œM. Cerneraā€, ā€œNuvolauā€, ā€œAverauā€ and ā€œCinque Torri (Five Towers)ā€
  • The mountain range of ā€œSorapissā€
  • Peaks and spires that belongs to ā€œLe Tofaneā€ (like the foregroung of the titles flying crows)
  • The ā€œCroda Rossa dā€™Ampezzoā€ at twilight
  • North faces of ā€œPopenaā€ & ā€œCristalloā€ groups

The camera was mainly located in the area near ā€œCol Druscieā€ and ā€œPrati di Rumerloā€ (Rumerlo meadows), at that time touched by a car track and cableway.
The last of the above list instead was shooted from Val Popena Bassa near the bridge on the route (indeed ā€œVal Fondaā€ ?)
I donā€™t succeed to identify with certainty the second part of the sequence where the sheriff and Hud enters riding in a little canyon, but it seems on the North of the Cristallo group.

Recently the entire Dolomite region becam UNESCO World Heritage Natural Sites.

For a view: Cortina Dolomites : Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering : SummitPost

Thanks for sharing that Garabombo. Looks a beautiful place.
Oh, and welcome to the forum.

Oh, and welcome to the forum

Thank you. Iā€™m sorry for my bad english but Iā€™m spaghetti-born ;D

Oh Iā€™ve manage to find a photo shot that help my memory to definy the doubtful locations on creek bed, now itā€™s sure: Val Fonda (Fonda valley) on Cristallo group north margins

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Whatā€™s the best realase?

Must be SPO, Japanese realases use to be very good. At least the quality (I donā€™t own any).

The SPO release is the best that I have been able to see, so far. Biggest downside to that is that there are no English options on that disc. There are French and Italian audio tracksā€“and if you are good with those languages, then you will be very happy with that disc.
I honestly donā€™t remember who originally did it, but I have a very nice fan-subbed DVD-R of this one that uses the SPO disc as its base. I got the DVD-R in a trade a couple of years ago and have really enjoyed it! I bought the official SPO disc, as well (and just recently sold it, as a matter of fact).

Iā€™m reading French but Iā€™m not that good with it yet. Whatā€™s the best realase with English audio or subs?

There isnā€™t an official release, that I am aware of, that has English audio or subs.
Too bad, too, because I think this movie is a vastly underrated one that needs to be seen by more folksā€¦and a release with some sort of English options would help get this movie in front of more viewers!

thereā€™s an English fan subbed version, which is the most common available

and fairly recently there was an English fandub AVI

I was just today thinking about adding the English fandub to the DVD

I have the French disc
Superb video quality, but only French audio (and not even French subs HOH to make things easier)
But there must be a fandub version somewhere, maybe on cinemageddon

Certainly an underrated movie

[quote=ā€œautephex, post:132, topic:243ā€]and fairly recently there was an English fandub AVI

I was just today thinking about adding the English fandub to the DVD[/quote]

:wink:

is the French disc available for purchase anywhere? I wasnā€™t aware of the French disc till nowā€¦

Amazon France, maybe someone knows of a cheaper placeā€¦

[url]Amazon.fr

cool, iā€™ll take a look there when I get homeā€¦ maybe check and see if xploited has any leftover copies- although i doubt they do

wouldnā€™t mind upgrading from the SPO source

Isnā€™t the fandub missing lots of minutes, I mean missing English audio? Because the film has never been available uncut in English on VHS.
I know at least one longer English language print exists in Denmark as the print was on loan in Finland couple of years ago and shown in theater once or twice.

Btw some of the official discs have different kinds of endings (I think spanish disc has something the french and german do not haveā€¦ not sure about the italian disc). Not sure if the fansub dvd-r version by djangokill has them all (it does have three different endings included).

I havenā€™t actually watched the fandub yet, but I know that some of it is missing English dialog and those scenes are subtitled

looks like several people have already mentioned the english dub hereā€¦ i should start reading the missed pages before posting :wink: yeah, for anyone that doesnā€™t have it yet, its available at the usual spot. Maybe another upgrade coming down the line thoā€¦ any news on this receiving a real release any time?

Iā€™m surprised someone like Koch hasnā€™t jumped all over it, seems like a big titleā€¦