A Taste of Death / Quanto costa morire (Sergio Merolle, 1968)

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Yes, it’s Panoramico, so it’s 1,66:1, same format as Django or The Great Silence.

The english language version is shorter than the italian one, and the colors are much more faded. And concerning the picture quality, the word sharpness shouldn’t be used (for my version).

I’m not so exactly sure if this film is a great film, but a good one for sure, one with potential, made with ambitions.

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After hearing so much good stuff about this - I stuck it on last night.
Excellent stuff … the same crappy transfer but the film shone through. 3 great leads, particularly - as Bill pointed out - Corazzari as Scaife - makes a fantastic villain.
Top 20 - dunno, but could be maybe?
Yeah, a good print is needed.

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[center]Very soon in this theatre, a joint effort by Silver Wolf & Scherpschutter, a review of this movie:[/center]

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I am excited…

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I’m also looking forward to it :slight_smile: !!!

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Your reviews are so great, scherp! Good work once again.

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Nice review as always Scherps.
I’d love to see a decent release of this.

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[quote=“Phil H, post:27, topic:551”]Nice review as always Scherps.
I’d love to see a decent release of this.[/quote]

Both very true ! Except the De Masi part :’( :wink: ! Forgive me, I just love his scores :slight_smile: !!!

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…by referring to the Partizan’s struggle, Merolle most probably wanted to pay honour to his fellow Italians who, outraged and humiliated, finally stood up against the forces of evil.

This sounds like a rather politically correct description though, since it was only a tiny fraction of Italians who were partisans and were fighting the Germans and the Italian fascists.

They were communists and it was an ideological struggle more than a “freedom fight”.

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[quote=“Lindberg, post:29, topic:551”]…by referring to the Partizan’s struggle, Merolle most probably wanted to pay honour to his fellow Italians who, outraged and humiliated, finally stood up against the forces of evil.

This sounds like a rather politically correct description though, since it was only a tiny fraction of Italians who were partisans and were fighting the Germans and the Italian fascists.

They were communists and it was an ideological struggle more than a “freedom fight”.[/quote]

Yes and no; only a fraction were Partisans, but among those Italians fighting the fascists (not only the Germans, but also - even in the first place - the Italian fascists), were also catholics, liberals and socialists (in most countries the resistance movement counted members with these ideologies).

I guess you could say their fight in the period '43-'45 was mainly a “freedom fight”. It was an ideological struggle too, that is right, but it only became a real ‘communist struggle’ (commies against the rest) after De Gaspari had left the communists out of the government after the war. Most former partisans and left-wing intellectuals (among them people like Sollima and Corbucci), experienced this as a form of betrayal and felt that the ‘De Gaspari government’ was too much a pro-American (pro-capitalist) government: they had accepted the Marshall Plan and their ideology was strickly anti-marxist.

I didn’t want to sound ‘politically correct’, but I can’t explain all subtleties in a review.
For more info:

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Have to agree with you there! When i started watching Sw’s i always favoured Bruno Nicolai but De Masi is definitely my favourite these days…haven’t heard one of his scores that i didn’t like. Excellent film too! :wink:

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That’s ok, we all make mistakes sometimes :wink:

But we don’t like political correctness on this board :smiley:

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I thought my DE MASI remark wasn’t PC

But okay, I’ll raise the SD FACTOR of my reviews a little in the future

PROMISED :wink: :smiley: 8) :-\ ::slight_smile: :o

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No, just keep writing your high-quality reviews Scherp, that’s enough :wink:

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[quote=“scherpschutter, post:33, topic:551”]I thought my DE MASI remark wasn’t PC

But okay, I’ll raise the SD FACTOR of my reviews a little in the future

PROMISED :wink: :smiley: 8) :-\ ::slight_smile: :o[/quote]

19.7 out of 20 for that SD style post :D.

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Couldn’t see the review :frowning:

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The review is in the database, but there’s no link yet here in the forum. Things we could easily change:

http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Taste_of_Death_(Quanto_costa_morire)_Review

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Here’s a custom cover I made:

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Taste of Death
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Nice cover Bill!.

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And now the official Finnish release, with English and Italian audio and removable Finnish subtitles!