There’s a new poll up for Arizona Colt at the top of the page!
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The copy submitted to the board of censors (3189 meters) included a scene in which a man is strangled by a wagon wheel: in all probability this happened before the change of shot at 1:38:09. 
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One of the last Wild East blu-rays. I would have kept buying from them forever. Such a bummer.
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Same. Does anyone actually know why they closed?
There’s a topic for that 
I decided to revisit Arizona Colt since the last time I watched it must have been 2015… time really does fly! I think it’s one of the better examples of the genre. I forgot how violent Fernando Sancho’s character is! Arizona himself is an unusual hero. He cheats, he demands the woman as payment for the bounty and yet he has a deceptively angelic appearance (as the pastor points out). All of the elements work very well. It might look like a routine spaghetti western for some viewers but I think it’s different enough to make it stand out. What a great soundtrack, too!
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I think its one of the clear classics.
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Yes, I agree. Outside of the big Leone hitters and Corbucci’s top stuff, this is one of the big Spags I recommend everyone to watch.
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The soundtrack to ‘Arizona Colt’ is, without doubt, one of Francesco de Masi’s best…
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The entire soundtrack can be found on Youtube.
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Great stuff. Lives up to the nickname ‘Ringo 3’. The theme is fun to play on guitar also.
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The story of Arizona Colt is here just the engine for the colourful characters that are amazingly casted.
You have Gemma as “trolling” Arizona, stunning Corinne Marchand as stunning Jane 
, Camardiel as probably the most loveable and always drunk sidekick in SW history called Whiskey and a classical duo of playful baddies portrayed by Sancho and Pazzafini.
All nicely shot and with beautiful cheesy score. 5/5
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‘The Man From Nowhere’ opened in the United States in Austin, San Antonio and Houston on November 14 1968.
Source below: (Austin American Statesman, November 10, 1968)
In the UK ‘Arizona Colt’ premiered at ABC Kings, Bristol on 20th September 1970 in a Golden Era presentation with ‘The Sex Adventures of a Single Man’. Full listings below…
ABC Kings, Bristol (20th Sept 1970 - 26th Sept 1970)
Futurist Cinema, Birmingham (11th Oct 1970 - 17th Oct 1970)
Plaza Cinema, Port Talbot (9th Nov 1970 - 14th Nov 1970)
The White Palace, Pontypridd (22nd Nov 1970 - 28th Nov 1970)
Scala Cinema, Liverpool (6th Dec 1970 - 12th Dec 1970)
Studio 2, Manchester (3rd Jan 1971 - 9th Jan 1971)
Broadway Cinema, Hammersmith (10th Jan 1971 - 16th Jan 1971)
ABC Cleethorpes (24th Jan 1971 - 30th Jan 1971)
Adelphi Theatre, Slough (31st Jan 1971 - 6th Feb 1971)
Empire Cinema, Huddersfield (14th Feb 1971 - 20th Feb 1971)
The Coliseum, Harlesden (1st Mar 1971 - 6th Mar 1971)
Studio 2, Bolton (30th May 1971 - 6th Jun 1971)
Followed by 1/2 day screenings in Sparkbrook, Hartlepool, Rusholme, Sleaford, New Moston, Cheetham and Biograph Cinema in the Victoria district of central London (23rd/24th Dec 1971). It returned in Feb-May 1972 with 7 day runs in Nuneaton, Sunderland, Newport and Carlisle. The last showing was at Biograph Cinema (for many years incorrectly known as ‘England’s First Cinema’) in July 1973.
Source below: (Birmingham Evening Mail, 9th October, 1970)
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Two reviews for ‘The Man From Nowhere’, from The Atlanta Journal (May 26, 1969) and The Plain Dealer [Cleveland] (November 15, 1969).
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I wonder if the first critic ever saw California or A Man on His Knees and changed his opinion on Gemma. Sadly I doubt it.
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