The Rarelust has an English audio.
Ill check into it for sure and see if I can burn it to a DVD-R but I love that opening scene and can’t imagine the film without it.
I love the opening shot of the 98 min version (94 min in Pal), and the longer version ruins that. Frankly said the longer version has only one scene which is important, the one in the store, which is longer in the 107 min version.
Isn’t that a fantastic opening when the film starts, just like OUTW, in the middle of a scene? What does the missing parts of the opening scene give you?
Btw, isn’t there already a Tijuana edition of the Italian TV version with English audio available? And if so, why do I not own it?
That would be the 98 min version in pretty good picture quality.
The beginning of El Puro is wonderful, ( especially the freeing of gypsy.) and specially hearing that wonderful score and the clothing shop scene reminds me of something Leone might have shot. I like the five bandits, each of which is acted well, and the costumes are superb, and I think this is Woods best spaghetti for sure. He’s a fine actor and when you see him stumbling around, hugging bottles, and smoking cigars and of course the scene where he practices his gun shooting, theirs a real authenticity to him I don’t find in other spaghettis. I’d probably somehow cut the boy out of the film, as he’s a bit annoying, and the old women isn’t necessary but her part is there, and I wouldn’t change it, but I wouldn’t called it inspired either. I did like the flashback scene where he is a boy sitting in the rocking chair, and I liked Rosie, ( beautiful women, I’d marry her in a second if I met a women that beautiful in real life.) overall this film is A- B+.
Two minutes with no music, not a word spoken, only the sounds of wind, grasshoppers, crows, I’m a sucker for that. And it starts with introducing Specs, the guy who eventually ends up both alive and (probably) collecting the 10.000 $ bounty all alone, I also am a sucker for symmetry. Besides, information; we see Specs coming down the stairs from where Gypsy is held prisoner, at the same time a guy is removing harness from the horses before a “Santa Fe Prison” coach, so a prisoner transport has just arrived and Specs has been waiting for it (or has arrived together with it).
And, it is beautifully shot; Specs waiting by the well, we don’t see Cassidy arriving, we only see it as a shift in Specs’ focus, then Cassidy is there, Specs directing him without speaking, just moving his head and his eyes.
The church ruin scene is important I think, it establishes Gypsy’s obsession with killing El Puro at the very outset. Also a nice reference to FAFDM.
By the way, at the moment there is an Italian 102 min version on YouTube:
At 1:07:00 there is a brief scene I haven’t seen before, or rather a brief sequence combining some seconds from a scene yet to come with some seconds from another scene which we have already seen, and with a voice-over.
I think Stanton meant the longer Italian cut.
It’s definitely a pretty good scene, but I love this opening shot of the 98 min version. Fuck, we can’t have both …
I don’t remember at the moment that added church ruin scene.
picture and audio quality look much improved, but no English audio 
Just my lousy memory. It’s in the 98 min version. 
In fact it is in 7 out of the 8 versions I have of this film. Only the French DVD leaves it out, it seems.
Now that’s a transfer worthy of this film! Why the hell can’t we get that on a disc?
The answer’s yes, there is the censorship certificate to prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt.
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Meanwhile we know that even for a famous film like GBU the original theatrical release version was so far never released on DVD or Blu, and with 99% certainty also never on VHS. It disappeared after a re-release version was prepared in 1969, and was not fully restored for the early 80s reconstruction, when such was tried. Maybe because some of the film elements were in bad shape, or even not there anymore.
And this 178 min version of GBU is not easy to reconstruct, but at least some copies exist.
But it is amazing that this is such a mess with Italian films.
I really would love to see that 120 min version, even if the already longer available version (107 min) makes the film not always better.
Interesting!..For better or for worse, I wouldn’t mind seeing that 120 min version.
Robert Woods posted this on his Facebook page Saturday night:
A sequel about El Puro’s life, after his last gun fight, is being planned for a 2018, 3D shoot. His young wife, horribly violated, raped and murdered, El Puro, in his early sixties, is reluctantly forced to return to a life of vengeful violence, as a slow and rusty, but older, and wiser killer… Now entitled, “The Legend Lives”, the script was written by Emmy nominee, Michael Miller and it is scheduled to be directed by the talented Dean Zanetos of “Battle Star Galactica” fame…
So this could be interesting, especially with the fact that they’re going to need to resurrect El Puro from the dead. I’d try and post the link to the actual facebook post but I can’t be bothered to figure out their awful system of embedding links.
I can’t honestly see this happening - and I’m not sure I’d want to either.
As much as I admire Robert Woods, I feel that this is yet another ‘pie in the sky’ announcement. ‘The Resurrection of El Puro’ was being talked about 5 years ago, and to me it didn’t seem viable then, particularly when I spoke to a certain Spanish director/entrepreneur, who, in conversation I discovered hadn’t even seen the original film the whole way through. When I mentioned the infamous Gypsy/ Cassidy kiss, the guy in question was completely unaware of this scene.
Add this venture to the growing list of wannabe comebacks, like ‘Keoma Rises’ and ‘Django Lives’.
When ‘El Puro’ is virtually unknown outside of specialist sites like this one, and it hasn’t even had a proper DVD release, plus the fact that it’s not a very good film (being brutally honest here) - what are the real chances of this project going ahead ???
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Here you are quite wrong, otherwise I agree with you easily.
It shouldn’t be necessary to write ‘In My Opinion’ after making a statement, and neither is it necessary for you or anyone else, Stanton to say, I’m quite wrong. Our opinions differ, that is all.
Perhaps not a very good film. Still BETTER than most good films!