OK - here are the complete specs.
Film
85m50s. Pal I assume so about 89m20s in NTSC. It has German and English audio. No subtitles. It is a German print with German credits and an ‘Ende’ at the end.
Washed out VHS print, albeit widescreen, Lots of splices particularly at reel changes where 3-4s missing at each reel change on average. Lot of marks etc on the picture although watchable. the English dub seemed a little of out synch in places (Harrison is mouthing English and it might even be his own voice - not sure). A couple of the killings and a whipping are obviously censored (see deleted scenes below).
Extras
(a) interview with Alberto de Martino (20m2s)
This is in Italian with German subtitles. No English option. It’s an Explosive Media interview.
(b) German Trailer - 2m28s
This contains a few of the deleted shots (below).
(c) ‘Enfernte Szenen’ (Deleted Scenes) - 4m19s
These are all in English - with German subtitles for the English dialogue in one scene - and there is a TV station logo on some shots. Several of these are just mere seconds and they repeat the ending but with a ‘The End’ end title. The overall extra footage is probably close to 2m.
The deleted snippets include several shots of violence, whippings and point black shootings, missing from the German print and also several small exposition scenes which may be missing due to print damage - for example there is a horrible jump splice when we first see Harrison arrive - cutting off in mid music flow - at the way station and about 10s of what is missing is covered in one of these extra shots.
I think if you add the extra footage here to the running time of the DVD you get the 91m10s approx Italian censor running time.
I’ve not seen an Italian version but the Italian censor notes refer to Harrison’s character as Ringo although in the English version he is Lee Barton posing as Wade Kluster (Kluster is also the name of the bad guy in De Martino’s Django Shoots First).
Update points for the database records:
- ‘John Barracuda’ is third in the cast - I guess this must be Massimo Serato who isn’t otherwise credited.
- SWDB running time is 98m. Not sure of source of this as Italian censor site has 91m (when you translate the r/t length of 2508m).