It’s not nearly as bad as it’s been described !!! ffs … it is interlaced though, which may or may not be noticeable on your system.
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It’s bad in a different way than a bad dvd. I think it looks plain awful. As I said it’s a wax museum. Take it for a spin and see.
I just ordered it from a cheap ebay store in the US so I won’t be able to watch it for maybe another 3 weeks lol
Can I stick my oar in and just say that cheap as they may sometimes these releases can be the only way to see or own certain titles. Many YouTube versions or movies4men prints are just as bad.
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I love it when Craig Hill visits Ken in jail before he’s about to get hanged and Craig looks outside the window and says “I’ll say one thing about the army though, they make great looking gallows”
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Visits Ettore in jail … Ken is the evil brother 
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RIP Ennio Morricone…I decided to finally buy this today
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Love the artwork!! Money well spent man!
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In the post. Looking forward to watching them.
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Very nice! Still have yet to see any of the Winnetou films
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Wanted to see them for years. My Dad’s Native American friend recommended them when I was a boy.
Still a few titles to get though.
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I got a stack of these in BluRay from Germany a few years ago. They are very different to the Spaghetti Western; they are much more like the American Western. Although any movie series that respects the Noble Savage and is populated with immigrant villains has to be seen as a genre in its own right. They are beautifully photographed, the Yugoslav scenery is spectacular, the music score lush, the villains black-hearted, the heroes noble, the women beautiful, the action suitably explosive; maybe a tad slow-paced for our sensibilities, but on the whole, classy movies
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The fact that Indians take a more prominent role drew me to these films. I went to Istria last year and a tour guide said westerns were made there.
That just reminded me of the first time I went to Almeria back in 1972. The tour guide told us that lots of famous westerns like The Magnificent Seven had been shot there in Almeria. And he wasn’t mixing that up with Return of the Seven because that had been shot in Alicante.
At least your tour guide got it right.
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Tell us more please. I would love to have been there while films were still in production and before the sets were messed up by lousy renovation.
Oh no. It would take forever. I went there in 1972 and 1974. Then in 2000 and 2002. I wrote about my adventures for the Spaghetti Cinema Fanzine, published by Bill Connolly. You can ask him if he has any copies available at scinema@earthlink.net. I typed it all up when you saved documents on floppy disks, so I don’t think I have anything left.
I took my daughter there a couple of years ago, and it is immensely commercialised. The El Paso set has a pretty good shootout performance, but we didn’t bother with the zoo!!!
Leone Ranch is still there. I am glad I went there in the 70s, because yes, the sets were still being used, and I spent a day watching them shoot the Blood Money hanging in El Paso (which was now called Monterrey) with Lee Van Cleef. The best bit was when I went to Flagstone, the Once Upon a Time in the West town. It was somewhat changed from that movie, and had some weird circus tents and props. That night I went to watch My Name is Nobody and that’s where the circus stuff came from. I’m in a cinema watching the film sets that I had walked through that afternoon. That was cool.
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Thanks for that, Indio … I first visited in 2008, and have been there 7 times since. It’s still a wonderful place to see, and thankfully the desert locations haven’t changed too much, despite the introduction of electrical pylons at key sites !!! … that pissed me off enormously, but they won’t be there forever … and I did get to visit iconic areas before this work happened. Even picked up a souvenir piece of ‘Fistful of Dynamite’ coach, which was still scattered over that hill top on the sierra Alhamilla.
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That is just amazing reading. I went to the El Paso the gunfights were very cool and it was such an experience to handle a Smith & wesson. I enjoyed getting on a horse since I was 11.
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Cool looking set. I don’t believe I’ve seen that particular one before and I admit I’ve seen a few of the Karl May collection sets on Amazon DE. Where’d you purchase it from, I might look into getting it myself.
I got it on ebay from the seller Rarewaves-outlet. £13.60
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