Fort Yuma Gold / Per pochi dollari ancora (Giorgio Ferroni, 1966)

in case you’re wondering, the japanese blu ray has an excellent picture quality

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The picture does look pristine, nice! :+1: Where’d you buy your copy from? So far the cheapest I’ve seen it is on Amazon Japan.

amazon japan and yes it’s expensive

Have this same release and yes it’s expensive, paid around $50 for it on Amazon Japan. The picture quality is excellent, but it’s a shame that they didn’t include an English track on the main film. There’s an English dubbed version as a bonus feature, but it seems to be the same as the Mill Creek release with inferior picture quality and bad audio with pops and scratches throughout.

This movie’s page in the SWDb has been updated to the new ā€œSWDb 3.0ā€ format .
Please have a look and let us know if there’s something you can add (information, trivia, links, pictures, etc.).

New poll for Fort Yuma Gold on the original post at the top of the thread! :slightly_smiling_face: :arrow_up:

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That’s the Blu-ray or the DVD by Mill Creek with the bad overall quality?

The BD quality isn’t that bad as such, it’s just taken from an old original print, which has colour fade and some scratches … no biggie for me, who as a former film collector, enjoys the so-called ā€˜grindhouse’ look :wink: It’s perfectly watchable, just not up to the typical high standards of most BD releases.

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Thanks, aldo!

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I saw this one on Netflix a few months ago and really liked it. Definetly deserves 4 stars

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I just watched this one again.
If someone could update the main page: Per pochi dollari ancora

At least some of the ā€œfilming locationsā€ were set at:
CinecittĆ  Studios
Manziana
Mazzano Romano
Tolfa
Aldea Del Fresno
Colmenar Viejo
Manzanares El Real
Titulcia

Thanks,

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I really enjoyed this one. I’ve had it for a little while as part of the double feature blu ray with Gatling Gun, but hadn’t gotten around to it until last night. Nothing particularly special or groundbreaking, just solid entertainment with Gemma in great form as always. The villains weren’t the most memorable and I’m never much of a fan of romance in my spaghettis, but they didn’t overdo it and I can’t be mad at a character named Connie Breastful.

Lots of familiar faces, but the highlight for me had to be good old Lorenzo Robledo not only playing a named character & getting some decent screen time, but not dying horribly for once!

Not top 20 material but a fun watch and very easy to recommend.

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Watched this one today, the Millcreek Blu-ray.
Very enjoyable SW. 6.5/10 for me.
The Blu-ray was ok, not the best transfer but looks better than a dvd.

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Quite a silly film (the ā€˜accidents’, the fort that is in the middle of flat countryside yet supposedly the villains have built an underground tunnel from a mine to it) with a far too elaborate and convoluted plot. It’s hard to know whether the silliness is intentional or not. Quite watchable and fast paced but I’d say that it definitely ranks in the lower half of Gemma’s 1965-1969 westerns. It does sort of look as if it should have been shot in late 1965 (pre Few Dollats More and Django) rather than Spring of 1966 when it was filmed. Sophie Daumer presumably came with the French money - she and Jacques Sernas get special billing on the posters - which is why she wasn’t in other Italian westerns.

Cracking movie which I enjoyed earlier today.
Great fights, particularly the excellent bar room saloon brawl. Gemma did well as a sympathetic and well layered character. Good array of villains and allies, civil war figures on both sides. I enjoyed the sequences at the ranch, stagecoach scene and the initial camp scene. Would watch again, thumbs up 4 star.

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ā€˜Fort Yuma Gold’ opened in the UK at ABC Coliseum Cinerama Theatre, Glasgow on 14th October 1968 followed by Studio 1, Manchester from 11th November 1968. A somewhat limited release in comparison to ā€˜One Silver Dollar’ although it did return for another run in 1971. The third Ferroni/Gemma western (ā€˜Wanted’) had very few advertised screenings - just a 3 day run at Empire Cinema, Huddersfield in February 1971.
Source below: (Sunday Sun, 18th May, 1969)

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The Gemma films got out of synch UK release dates. A Pistol For Ringo in 1966 before the Dollar movies. Then One Silver Dollar. Adios Gringo in 1967. Fort Yuma Gold in 1968. The Return of Ringo, Arizona Colt and Day of Anger were not until 1970 and Wanted was 1971, same year as The Price of Power. Day of Vengeance didn’t get a release at all neither did any of his 3 buddy comedies. I don’t think his later westerns, Silver Saddle and California got a UK release either.

PS - really enjoying these UK release posters and info. Interested to know where/when And God Said to Cain was released.

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Rewatching this right now (Plaion BluRay). Not bad, but quite convoluted and out of balance (tonally). Interesting watch, but not quite memorable… not sure if I agree that it is the best of Ferroni’s Gemma trilogy of sorts, but I would have to rewatch the other two…

This is the one where he pretends to be blind and keeps murdering various henchman and Stefanelli keeps passing their deaths off as an accident.
Lots of action but it is all over the place.

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That sums it up exactly