I have finally purchased the third box set that Arrow released ( Vengeance Trails, Blood Money, Savage Guns). I really like how each set has a movie or two that I’m familiar with along with … should I say more obscure? Or, lesser known titles.
I am hoping the they release a fourth set, but if they do - what titles would you like to see collected?
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Okay I got two different sets which I would love!
A.) A Gemma Set
Blood For A Silver Dollar
Fort Yuma Gold
Wanted
Adios Gringo
And
B.)
Dead Men Ride
The Forgotten Pistolero
The Man Who Cried Revenge
This Man Can’t Die
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The Forgotten Pistolero
Anda Muchacho, Spara! (At the End of the Rainbow)
The Ruthless Four
Yankee
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My current wishlist:
- Dead Men Ride
- Forgotten Pistolero
- Any Gun Can Play
- Blood At Sundown (1,000 Dollars on the Black)
- Sonny and Jed
- California (I know it has the big box German release but I’d appriciate a regular release thats easier to get ahold of)
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Some titles I’ve heard and want to watch, and quite a few I have never heard of 
I would like to see California and the Ruthless Four. I’ll have to check the other titles and read about them
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I thought we were supposed to be getting this, not sure what the hold up is.
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John The Bastard - Go With God Gringo - Djuardo - The Great Treasure Hunt - His Name Was Pot But They Called Him Allegria - The Deserter
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Petra, I’ve not seen or heard of any of those. Recommend?
John the Bastard and Go With God Gringo would be great, the others I do not need. But there anyway are not so much Spags left I’m interested to have on disc.
Thinking about that, I’m also interested in
15 Scaffolds for the Killer
More Dollars for the McGregors
Poker With Pistols
Cost of Dying
Yes, I would recommend them all but none are easy titles to access and some aren’t released on DVD with English audio which is why I suggested them. There are better spaghettis out there but these all deserve a decent release. Djuardo is on Blu Ray but only available on Japanese release (from memory).
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Definitely recommend California and The Ruthless Four, excellent films
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The ruthless four will be released by a different company, not arrow
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The Colizzi Trilogy
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Wonderful, Robert H! I hope you enjoy your purchases thoroughly! As a matter of fact, I’ve recently purchased a wonderful Arrow boxed set myself recently, it arriving just today–February 21. This collection is a brand-new “The Complete Sartana–Limited Edition”, containing–and this is what makes me most happy–the Special Collector’s Booklet, which is very hard to obtain these days! However, for all of my joy, I’m still a bit confused, as this collection has, supposedly, every “Sartana” film, and I recall reading, in a “Sinister Cinema”–a fine Oregon-based home-video company which deals mainly in horror-science fiction-fantasy movies, but which has also, for more than a decade, carried a fine selection of spaghetti westerns–catalog, of a movie entitled “One Damned Day At Dawn, Django Meets Sartana”. Why isn’t this film considered part of the official “Sartana” canon?
I also received today, most happily, a new-and-unused copy of the study, “Peckinpah: The Western Films: A Reconsideration” by Paul Seydor, the original version of which, “Peckinpah: The Westerns”, is one of the comparatively few books that must be read by anyone who wishes to know what genuine drama criticism and dramatic analysis truly are, and, what’s more, right on February 21, 2025–the 100th anniversary of Sam Peckinpah’s own birth! Happy centennial, Sam, wherever you are!
In closing, I must also state that, in his outstanding study, “Spaghetti Western”–a book that is in a class with Professor Seydor’s work insofar as it is an example of the most brilliant drama criticism–Sir Christopher Frayling, the world’s greatest authority on spaghetti westerns, and Sergio Leone’s official biographer–Sir Christopher’s book, “Something About Death”, actually being the only Leone biography at present–states that Peckinpah and Leone actually had a conversation in which Peckinpah thanked Leone for, through the Italian’s making and success of his spaghetti westerns–a term Sergio Leone hated, as he found it most demeaning–making the American director’s films possible. Does anyone have any further comments on Leone’s influence upon Peckinpah, and, possibly, vice-versa?
Dean, the Colizzi trilogy would be fantastic.
Arrow usually have four films in their box-sets…so what would your choice of the 4th film be?
I was waiting for someone to point this out. I’ll let you guys decide!
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Is there any type of documentary or interview special that Colizzi ever took part in? He didn’t really direct that many movies did he? Was he involved in any other SW’s in another role? I really don’t know a lot about him
He is a bit of an enigma, here I found some interviews with his son
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Usually, yes, but the Sartana set had 5 films. Adding another one to a Collizi set does not make much sense.
Well, they could add the 4th film he made with Spencer/ Hill, but that’s a comedy, and also not a western.
No, the trilogy would be nice, but then, I have them all in good enough copies.
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Cause the so called official films are those made by Parolini and then Carnimeo with Garko. The 5th one with Hilton was at least planned with Garko, and is also directed by Carnimeo.
One Damned Day At Dawn, Django Meets Sartana is just another cheap Spagie using the names without being faithful to the established characters.
There are several more of that kind using the Sartana name. Unlike James Bond there was no copyright to forbid the use of names like Django, Ringo, Sartana, Sabata, Trinita, everybody was free to use them.
There is even another SW in which Garko is named Sartana, but it has nothing to with the later series.
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