Positiv is that the El puro Blu will contain both versions separately, cause the shorter one is maybe the better one.
But the longer one features one great scene I would like to have in the shorter version, the extended scene in the store.
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It’s not impossible that it might get a individual or at least a double feature release in the future. Arrow has announced that they will re-release their first Shaw Brothers box divided up in double and triple feature editions, and the same thing with the Bruce Lee set.
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Estatic about this news, especially El Puro, but also I WANT HIM DEAD and he other two. Just checked this wonderful site today, still blown away … damn, this makes my day.
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Hooray! I placed my pre-order on the Arrow Films website today.
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Have returned after long absence to find this, and am picking myself up in a state of blank disbelief. Order placed.
Roll on John (the Bastard)!
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Ok fellow forum users, I’ve come here to make a confession. Today I popped in my shiny new Arrow blu ray of El Puro. I remember decently enjoying it last time, I believe I gave it a 3/5. I was excited to have my enjoyment lifted by the shiny new transfer.
I was bored to hell. Now I know El Puro isn’t your typical spaghetti western of shootouts and fist fights, but man so many scenes that should be cool little character moments are just drawn out for so damn long. It’s especially noticeable during the drunken scenes where the film makes sure to show you his drunken POV shots over and over and over.
There’s still some bits I enjoy, I when Gypsy introduces his gang to El Puro’s partner and it has does a dramatic zoom in on each one, and the end duel is pretty nifty.
Maybe I just wasn’t in the right mood for this one. I’ll defo give it another try later on but it just didn’t do much for me this time.
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For years, all anyone on this web site has ever asked for is to get a blu-ray release of El Puro. Anytime new releases were about to be announced, post after post said, “Maybe we will finally get El Puro!” only to be met with disappointment time after time. Then finally, after all of the wishing and waiting, we finally get a release.
And what do you do, Max? You crap all over it! 
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I know 
I was also super stoked for it! I’m hoping my brain is just a lil bit broken today and on my next rewatch my brain is working and I love it.
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@Max I get it… it isn’t the flashiest SW. I went into it expecting lots of action so I was a little bored during my first watch but the days the followed I kept thinking about it which have me a different look on the film and a greater appreciation. It is not one for everyone though and that’s OKAY!!!
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It’s a very mediocre film, which has been over hyped … it has a few nice touches here and there, but that doesn’t justify all the noise it gets here.
Sorry you didn’t enjoy it … but I’ve felt the same about this one for a while.
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I loved it from the moment I first watched it, and I watched it without any expectations for a good film, and was absolutely surprised. It got better with every viewing since then, and entered my Top 10. Surely the Spag I watched the most in the last 15 years.
Well, tastes differ …
I hope it will get some more recognition by such a quality release …
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Watching L. t. è. t. … l. u. l. a. i. on the new Arrow BD was pure joy.
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it shall henceforth be calle Ltet…lulai, an acronym that transcents the palate like butter
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It’s beautiful, isn’t it? 
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As a matter of fact, the longueurs and all the odd touches are what define this film for me, it’s obviously a bit of an acquired taste though. If it wasn’t for all the outlandish ‘defects’ or off-the-wall moments, the movie would’ve been totally unmemorable.
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Watched the Blu-ray yesterday. Having only watched cropped and butchered prints before, this was almost a surreal experience! The stylish baroque sets looks gorgeous. Mulargia really did a lot with a shoe string budget with this film. The atmosphere really oozes everything that I like about the genre. The oddity of it works for me… But I can see why it doesn’t work with everyone. Mulargia’s other Spaghs like Go With God Gringo (Which I’m an huge fan of as well) and Viva Django are definitely more straight forward films.
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He really didn’t do anything much, as the film was mainly directed by the two leading men, Woods and Fiorini.
The ‘Unusual atmosphere’, is down to the fact that there are almost no extras in any scenes except a man reacting to gunshot sound when Gypsy escapes at the beginning. All scenes are just the principle actors … so it could be said, there’s no atmosphere!
Don’t get me wrong, I quite like the film … but as I said before, I don’t see it as a mini-masterpiece, rather just a curio which was unavailable (officially) in decent quality for a long period.
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That’s interesting, I had no idea that the lead actors was responsible for the directing. But it makes sense, because as I said it is very different from Mulargia’s other films.
I’m a big fan of the film The Dirty Outlaws which is also very low on extras and overall a compromised effort that potentially could be something else, but still there is something there… I can’t put a finger on what it is but there is something about the sets, the music and the overall mood that speaks to me. The framing of the shots, the lightning, the music… I don’t know! I’m not gonna try and make it out to be something that it’s not, I don’t consider it to be a masterpiece, just a very “fun” film to watch - for me…
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It basically comes down to Fiorini as well as Woods picking some throwaway script and winging it while being stoned. The movie is interesting because it is one of the few of the really anti-commercial genre examples. It is purposely unsightly, self-indulgent, laggard and decadent in defiance of commercial considerations. The permanent ambiguity and experimentation are what carries this film.
In addition to the unwarrantedly slow pacing, the constant sensation of self-loathing likewise lends it an air of indie-ness which makes it look somewhat more modern and a lot more classy than it really is. There are no extras, there is no three-dimensional script, it all coalesces into a coherent whole purely because of the bizarre happenstances and improvisations transpiring along the way. It is a lot closer to something like Matalo! than what would appear at a glance.
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I don’t remember such, but maybe I lost track who did what.
As far as I remember Woods and Fiorini had some influence on the film, even had several ideas which had made El puro much more unusual than it is now, but they did everything with Mulargia. So they contributed to the film, and are probably responsible for some of the film’s most notorious stuff, but still Mulargia may have directed the film.
Apart from that Mulargia is also credited as co-writer, and the story and probably the original screenplay was indeed by one of the actors, but that was Fabrizio Gianni, who played Specs in the film. He also got the co-screenplay credit, as also Ignacio F. Iquino. Of course screenplay credits often enough don’t really tell who wrote what.
Mulargia is underrated, even if he had not made El puro. Apart from the bad Brother Outlaw (a Fidani like film) all his films show a talented director, but one who was, as it seems, not very choosy with the scripts from which he worked.
Too bad he did not work with Woods also on Black Jack, another very unusual Spag, but one which suffers form its mediocre directing.