I didn’t see a forum post for this one so I figured I’d start. Just watched this film last night having just watched Roberto Mauri’s “Shotgun” the night before. The story is pretty typical and the contains every cliche in the book… including the one that ruined it for me – a comic relief type roll brought on by the character Santo. The best part of the film was definitely the soundtrack by Vasili Kojucharov
, but even that was lacking. Well, “Shotgun” was a killer movie… this one was just a dud!
Had heard this one re-uses footage from Durango is Coming so, having watched that one a short while ago, thought I’d give it a whirl.
A mistake I think. Maybe if the previous film wasn’t so fresh in my memory I could have washed over the recycling but it proved too much of a spoiler for me at the moment. That said, some scenes transfer surprisingly well with their redub but too many are an absolute mess, with clumsy editing between different sources that don’t match up as seamlessly as the producers obviously hoped they would. Torres’ character, who had been the bright spot in Durango, has no consistancy here (not surprisingly) and becomes confusing and just plain annoying. Harris becomes practically a cardboard cut out (even less substantial to the wooden actor others thought him to be earlier) and the scenes where there are gunfights taking place in what is clearly two separate rooms just pushed me a bit too far.
Never got to the end. Maybe I will one day but not for a while I don’t think.
The poster is a killer though. One of the best in the genre. A travesty to have it linked to this mercenary mash up of a production.
Watched this the other week and liked it a lot. Nothing particularly notable for those who are only interested in the best of the best, but for the rest of us, this is a little gold or maybe silver nugget for our upper-bottom-shelf of highly watchable spaghettis.
I just got this in the Django Collection vol. 2, and I can confirm that this movie is at least 50% of just re-edited footage from Durango is Coming, Pay or Die, and while I haven’t seen it I would assume the other 50% are just taken from Wanted Sabbata. Possibly making the the only SW cheaper than Django Story.
Not too sure. Hoping for the best deal I can get. The only VFP tape that I own is Black Killer. I’d love to get some of the other releases. The artwork is really nice. This is the top one on my list along with Django the Runner and the Carambola films.
A week ago I studied the casts of the two Three Stars Films productions (Wanted Sabata and Arriva Durango, paga o muori), with interesting results I’ll post in the respective threads - and Database pages - in the near future.
I would have liked to do with Seminò morte… lo chiamavano il castigo di Dio the same I did years ago with Corte Marziale, but as far as i know there is no DVD release and to this day the movie is not available on YouTube: in Mauri’s 1974 film for example there are about 10 additional scenes involving Karis, Craig Hill, Salvatore Billa and a handful of new actors; on the other hand Hunt Powers and José Torres, significantly uncredited, are only in recycled footage.
Among new performers in this one I see the name of Zara Cilli, mainly a photonovels actress (see below). What role is she playing?
Scherp, at this point I would add the words erroneously or mistakenly to note 1 in your excellent review:
“Some mistakenly think all scenes were recycled from the two other movies”
So the other actress should be Matilde Antonelli…
In Wanted Sabata and Durango Is Coming Harris’s girls were Elena Pedemonte and Gisela Hahn, in other words the Mormon girls of They Call Me Trinity. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes?
All three main actors have additional scenes (we need only to think of the ending) and the same goes for other two performers, master of arms Roberto Messina and Franco Pasquetto. If I remember rightly, also the brief scene in which Maretta Procaccini fixes Brad Harris’ neckerchief is not taken from Durango Is Coming.
Actresses Matilde Antonelli and Zara Cilli seem the only new entries, but no recycled footage for Pietro Fumelli too (in Wanted Sabata he played a completely different role).
I acquired the Dutch VHS eventually and decided to give it a watch. It’s a stupid movie with terrible dialogue but I have to admit that I kinda like it for what it is. It manages to entertain. I haven’t watched Durango, so everything felt new to me and I didn’t notice the stock footage. I’ll have to get around to the other film.
