VHS u mean? Yeah that would be great
VHS - yes!
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The town raid by the Mexicans is mostly cribbed from Taste of Killing not Pistoleros (you see Lorenzo Robledo as the sheriff who gets shot). This scene has no purpose to the plot since the Mexicans are only introduced in one scene earlier so they do nothing except get killed. The opening raid on the town by the villains disguised as cavalry is also Taste of Killing (Robeldo seen again) and again has no narrative purpose after the previous stagecoach robbery (from Starblack), The insertion of the bar room brawl from Starblack taking place in a saloon which the protagonists seem strangely reluctant to enter was unintentionally funny.
As you say, the stock footage is different quality from the new footage with Hill and Manni. Very noticable on the Koch Blu Ray.
There must be at least half an hour of borrowed footage - leading to questions as to whether the writer knew which bits of stock footage would be inserted when he wrote the script or whether this was added by the director/producer. Reminded me of some of those Edward Small American 1960s westerns which use footage from his earlier westerns - have you ever seen Frontier Uprising (1960)?
No, but I know several other US westerns which use stock footage from older films.
I recently watched Land Raiders (1969) from a Blu, a film which also heavily does this, and all the stock footage looks like coming from a VHS copy. And is by that easily identifiable.
But of course many of these shots do not match with the footage directly shot for the film, it is obvious even without the picture quality.
Hmm, I’m pretty sure that some shots in Bury Them Deep originate from Pistoleros.
The Italian film historian interviewed on the Koch Blu Ray calls it a ‘Frankenstein’ Film.
There are at least 4 different movies spliced into it - Starblack, Taste of Killing, In a Colt’s Shadow and 4 Dollars of Revenge. The Italian film historian identified three of these films but In a Colt’s Shadow (which he didn’t identify) is used for the shoot out in the streets of the Mexican town including a brief close up of Aldo Sambrell shot in the head. There may be more. Virtually every action shot not involving the 4 main male actors is from another film. I wonder how they got the rights to this as different production companies involved. Maybe they didn’t!
Jose Greci’s death was also very confusing. Wood shoots Mani in the arm. She screams ‘no’ and then Wood empties his pistol at what I assumed was Mani. When we cut back it’s she who’s dying in Mani’s arms and he hasn’t been hit again. Wood goes off leaving Mani, who he has just spend the last few minutes trying to kill, alive.
Koch Blu Ray runs 98m25s ( DVD also in package but only watched Blu Ray). This includes end credits of about 1m. The print is Italian. German and English language options as well as Italian but no English subtitles. Picked it up very cheaply from an Amazon market seller.
That’s interesting about Land Raiders which I have seen (twice) but didn’t spot borrowed footage. This one I spotted the borrowed bank robbery footage at once. Shame on me.
Wait, after some checking I’m sure I made a mistake, I meant in fact In a Colt’ Shadow and not Pistoleros. I obviously got confused because Pistoleros is the German title of In a Colt’ Shadow.
I changed it in above post 28.
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Every bigger action scene is completely or at least in parts from other films. There are several mismatches between clothes or the color of horses (like in the stagecoach assault). I didn’t recognize any of the used footage, but I have read that The Guns of Fort Petticoat, a mediocre Audie murphy flic, is one of them.
What makes me wonder is that Land Raiders generally did not look like such a cheap film.
Thanks - I had a quick look at Land Raiders and Guns of Fort Petticoat. Guns of Fort Petticoat seems to use a fair bit of stock footage itself and hardly any looked to be in Land Raiders. When the Indians attack the town in Land Raiders you can see the familiar Rojo house from Fistful of Dollars in the background in several shots indicating this was filmed in Spain. The attack on the wagon train and the fight in the Indian village look to be largely stock footage but I need to do more work to try and find that.
For American westerns Universal films are particularly prone to stock footage possibly because Universal have a big library.
Universal westerns with borrowed footage include Taggart (1964), Gunpoint (1966), Journey to Shiloh (1968), Gunfight in Abilene (1967) and Ride to Hangman’s Walk (1967). Even Shenandoah (1965) uses a couple of borrowed civil war shots
The Great Sioux Massacre (1965) is constructed around stock footage from the same director’s Sitting Bull (1954) with two of the same actors used in the same parts so they can ‘mix and match’. Some of Audie Murphy’s westerns use borrowed footage including Apache Rifles (1965) which is a remake of Indian Uprising (1952) and uses footage from the original in several scenes.
I’ve got a soft spot for this one since it was on TV so many times growing up. If I remember correctly, I actually enjoyed it more than Sitting Bull.
Both enjoyable.