if you watch the italian cinema stills and cinema artwork of The Big Gundown you can see that
Sollima cut out several scenes in the post production. On one still you can see Cuchillo posing on the dead body of Brokstons steph son pulling his knive out of the head. Lee Van Cleef is on that photo in the background. This scene is not seen in the movie and was cut out from the final version, I think.
There are also other scenes which didnāt find there way into the final cut. On one photo there is Van Cleef with a special fure jacket and his pipe. Another shows him riding into town with the
killed bandit which was thrown over the back of his horse. I suppose there was filmed a scene where Van Cleef finished off the bandit, but this was cut out of the movie.
Another photo (italian still) show Cuchillo in a white clothing and laughing.
I totally disagree with the DVD Savant review on the image quality of the disc. I have mentioned it on another forum before but this Blu-Ray (but only based on screenshots I have seenā¦ I have the disc now but just havenāt looked at it yet) looks to me like it could be from an old DVD era master (maybe from 2004 or 2005, around the time the Kochs boxset came out), and definitely not something I would expect from a recent restoration especially from Sony. The look of this has nothing to do with any of the recent Sony restorations and releases I have seen. If this is theirs, I guess the regular guys were on holiday or something.
It does seem to look considerably better than the older DVDs (but then again those look like shitā¦ ).
From the review: The Techniscope transfers look great, and compare well with MGMās Blu-rays of the Leone films.
Considering the MGM Blu-Rays are crappy crap shit this comparison doesnāt help at all.
Anyways, just my opinion and I am no expert. I know several people like how it looks (but not all!). :-*
I have to say it does look quite amazing, but yes, and considering its age, itās not a huge-budget restoration.
by the way dvd savant talks about columbia (owned by sony), but in fact thatās where Uli spent the last two or so years, and there will be a sony/columbia bluray of this most likely.
will try to publish my review by the end of the week (i know i said that last week)
[quote=āSundance, post:545, topic:660ā]From the review:
Considering the MGM Blu-Rays are crappy crap shit this comparison doesnāt help at all.[/quote]
Uh, 25 films on a single disc? Even if it is a 50GB disc it would mean the films take less than half the space even one movie would take on a proper DVD.
Then again that is probably the quality of the transfers in all the shitty DVD collections that are around. This time they just put them on one BR.
Well, I donāt have a Blu-Ray player, so I wonāt need to worry about this. I do wish though they would get into the Tarantino marketing strategy with some quality releases. But I suppose that wouldnāt be profitable.
I donāt recall where i read itā¦maybe Amazonā¦But a couple of titles included are Kill Django and Face to Face.Oh,and also come movie with Lola in the title.
The cover for āWesterns Unchainedā is pretty sweet. But with 25 films on one Blue Ray disc, you can forget about good picture and sound . For $12 bucks though, I might pick it up if it has a lot of films Iāve never seen before. Iāll pick up some of the Koch Dvdās too ( have to get Tepepa!), at least the ones with English subs .
I was hoping that Blu-ray would be the format where deliberately low quality releases just wouldnāt happen, seeing as that comes completely against what Blu-ray isā¦ Oh well, I guess Iām just naĆÆveā¦
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. For $12 bucks though, I might pick it up if it has a lot of films Iāve never seen before. Iāll pick up some of the Koch Dvdās too ( have to get Tepepa!), at least the ones with English subs 
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