His Name Was Holy Ghost / Uomo avvisato mezzo ammazzato … parola di Spirito Santo (Giuliano Carnimeo, 1972)

Oh, I’ve found it on the YT channel now. :+1:

The packaging looks nice, as usual, I’ll give it that. At least its got that going for it.

This has one of the best title sequences in the sub-genre. Have there been any good Blu-Ray releases of this one yet?

Yeah, just recently the German one

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Thank goodness I have a region free player!

Has anyone watched the Germsn blu ray and reappraised this one? Its a gap in my Garko collection.

Haven’t really managed to write a review. I would say for a slightly comedic western it’s almost a tad too smart, but it’s neither super entertaining nor will it ever regain a position of fandom…

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I got the most recent German blu and really enjoyed it. Some clever humor in it as well as some exciting sequences.

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Totally agree…also loved the humour.

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20 years ago I didn’t like any of Carnimeo’s films, but the more I watch them the more I get used to them, the more I like them.
Rewatched this one due to buying the beautiful Western All’arrabbiata Blu, and I enjoyed it more than before. The silly comedy elements still kill some parts of the film, but other parts are so well done and enjoyable that 5/10 seems to low.
A mixed affair, but the good aspects dominate. Not as great as They Call Me Halleluja, but it’s also positively weird.

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I was already familiar with this film in the eighties, but only from hearsay, and the more I heard, the greater the myth became for me. Unfortunately, there was only one cinema release in Germany, no video release, no DVD. So I was all the more delighted when Plaion released the film in the Allarabiatta series. Because now I could see this myth with my own eyes for the first time. And it immediately shot into my Top Twenty with a rating of 9/10. Wonderful!

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Arabic-language newspaper advertisement

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