I revised my review of Winnetou the Warrior (Winnetou 1. Teil)
I donāt think there are any copyright problems, but maybe Seb or any other expert on these matters might want to check things:
http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Winnetou_the_Warrior_Review
should be fine. with old movie material there shouldnāt be an issue. the issue weāve had that prompted my news-mail was a picture that was based on a recent photograph that was improperly cited (or not cited). But letās be more careful from now on. I will post more guidelines soon and include better disclaimers and tutorials
The following Karl May Reviews have been revised :
http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Winnetou_the_Warrior_Review
http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Winnetou:_Last_of_the_Renegades_Review
http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Winnetou_III_:_The_Desperado_Trail_Review
http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Among_Vultures_Review
Scherpschutter calling:
http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Old_Shatterhand_Review
And this review completes the May reviewing of the Dutch jury
So the final results are:
Winnetou finished, but May still going strong
I continued my journey with this movie:
http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/The_Treasure_of_the_Aztecs_Review
I also wrote a new synopsis for the main page (saves Stanton some trouble) and added a little comment:
http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Schatz_der_Azteken,_Der
Scherp, you have seen meanwhile more of these Karl May movies than I.
I had never seen these āMexicanā movies, but theyāre in the box with the Winnetou movies, so I might as well watch them
I have seen some of the Kara Ben Nemsi movies when I was young, but they never meant much to me; I tried to watch one a while ago (donāt even remember which one), but didnāt finish it
I even havenāt seen all of the westerns. They were part of my youth on TV, and we liked them very much cause of all the shooting, but later when I grew up I stopped watching them because all the cliches and the naive approach towards the genre.
There were for unknown reasons always the same ones on TV in the 70s. The last 3 were not shown then, and I think I only have later watched one of them. Somehow Iām still not very keen to close the gap, despite momentarily watching nearly every European western which crosses my way. I also wonāt buy the Koch Teutonen collection.
To complete the list of reviews of Karl May westerns, Iāve also done the movies set in Mexico:
http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/The_Treasure_of_the_Aztecs_Review
http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/The_Pyramid_of_the_Sun_God_review
Iāll do some other things on May and his life & works for a future special, but for the moment Iāll return to the real stuff. Actually Iām already working on two Enzo Castellari movies (one revision, one new)
noticed last week that i have all his books in my old roomā¦ i read many of his novels but not allā¦ but they defined my childhood, as they did for many
Iāve read a few too as a teenager. Maybe 12 or 15.
I stopped when I grew a little bit older. There wasnāt enough sex and violence in them, and the storytelling was mostly too similar. And I wanted the bad guys shot and not killed by destiny. Maybe I wanted then the good guys to be killed too.
Winnetouās death (uups a spoiler) was very touching, I spent him a few tears.
I read the stories first in strip form, in a childrenās magazine called Sjors.
There were several series of strips published when I was young, and I still have some books. My cousin, who was a few years older, had the novels, they were published unabridged, in pocket form. He gave me a few novels to read first, and sold me the whole lot when he needed money for something else. I also had View Master discs of some Winnetou movies. I sold most of the novels later, because I thought I was no longer interested in them, but somehow Karl May kept coming back. I still have a handful of Winnetou and Kara Ben Nemsi novels (one in German, May is an easy read) and reread parts of them for these reviews. May is not a great writer, no, but he meant a lot to me when I was young and in a sense he still does. Along with Agatha Christie (I discovered her novels when I stopped reading May) and Edgar Rice Burroughs, he learned me how to read. Old Shatterhand was my first hero and Iām not sure that I would have become a western lover without the Winnetou novels. It all started there, in May Wonderful West.
One new, one old (but revised), a combination I want to apply more in the future:
Any Gun Can Play Review - The Spaghetti Western Database (revised)
I came, I saw, I shot review - The Spaghetti Western Database (new)
http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Morricone_Western
Iāve created an article for the book/soundtrack compilation āMorricone Westernā. I think thatās fairly uncontroversial. I donāt actually have it, so a quick fact check by someone who does wouldnāt go amiss!
Also, possibly a quick check that the amazon links are set up right might be an idea.
Iāve filed it under OST. I guess itās technically a compilation, so perhaps shouldnāt go there, but it seemed as good a place as any.
[quote=āCommissioner, post:1514, topic:555ā]Morricone Western - The Spaghetti Western Database
I donāt actually have it, so a quick fact check by someone who does wouldnāt go amiss![/quote]
Itās a nice item - despite the soundtrack the booklet is full of colour posters and ephemera and looks great.
I couldnāt find any reference to Una Pistola per Ringo being performed live in Allessandroniās house in the booklet (unless I missed summat).
Interesting piece of trivia thoā 
- where did that bit of info come from?
[quote=āReverend Danite, post:1515, topic:555ā]I couldnāt find any reference to Una Pistola per Ringo being performed live in Allessandroniās house in the booklet (unless I missed summat).
Interesting piece of trivia thoā - where did that bit of info come from?[/quote]
I found it at:
I canāt find a more reliable source.
I guess it just means that version, which is presumably a different performance to the one on the film.
Hmmmm - I donāt know where that seller got his info from??
Iāve rechecked - thereās nothing on the page of blurb written by AA, or on the dedicated page.
It says "Music composed by Ennio Morricone and directed by Bruno Nicolai. Performed by Alessandro Alessandroni."
No mention of his house.
I reckon heās made that bit up, unless heās got a different version to mine.
Iāve removed the bit about his house, given that it look dubious.
I heard he had a nice house 
Sorry - I didnāt mean to be overly pedantic. I was just interested in that bit when I checked through. The rest seems good.
And good job with sticking this item in the database - itās worth getting - nice compilation of music and images.
I just added the DSX DVD to the California DVD page (only because I was looking for where to get a good version of the film, and that release didnāt seem to be there).
Iād think thatās a non-controversial change that I donāt need to announce here. Except, in general, the DSX DVDs donāt seem to be listed throughout the database (except on the page DSX Films DVD catalog (Argentina) - The Spaghetti Western Database ). Is there a good reason for that, or is it just that no-oneās done it yet?