With my LG Blu Ray player there is an option to change the position of the subtitle higher or lower within the picture, and the good news is for those who find forced subs irritating (All of us!) you can make the subtitle disappear by adjusting them to - 5 … I found this feature accidently, because who reads the set up instructions? (Nobody!)
I have a few French discs with this problem and it works for all of them , ET VOILÀ !
Interesting. I did talk to a guy the other day though that spent 50 bucks on the Wild East release of The Dirty Outlaws and when he opened up the case it was a DVD-R. He, understandably, was not happy.
I’ll see if mine has the option. Thanks for the tip.
The Wild East release is a pressed disc, so it sounds like someone kept the original and sold the sleeve. I have seen quite a few bootlegs of Wild East discs though, including some weird looking hybrids. For example, a double feature that wasn’t originally a double feature.
A rewatch, which was a waste of time. A pity, with that cast and a director who should have become one of the genre greats, but Long Live your Death was worse than I remembered, it was much too often only boring in the 2nd half. And all the comedy parts are really, really bad, but the screenplay is already a pretty uninspired variation of the better films it too obviously copies (GBU, Mercenary, Companeros).
Nero on his path towards Cry Onion.
Down on my entertainometer from 5/10 to 4/10, or maybe less … sigh …
Well, it was originally supposed to be the third installment for Corbucci after Mercenary and Companeros.
I know, but would Corbucci had been able to make it better?Judging by his later films after Companeros I’m not sure.
Tessari on the other hand had also the skills to become a great SW director, the Ringo films were a promise for the future, but instead he missed out on the genre in its heydays, and when he returned in 1969 it was comedy, but the type of comedy which Barboni made much better the next years. And in Long Live Your Death he very haplessly mixed unfunny comedy in the action, the kind of film Carnimeo did much better (well, in some of his films). As a successor to Companeros, and as such it surely was intended, it is a total disappointment. It also made less money than Companeros and Tessari’s previous westerns. But it was not a flop, the film sold about 2,6 mio tickets in Italy.
I really like this film but as I’ve said before, I much prefer the shorter version. The tighter editing improves it massively while the Italian version feels too long.
The slapstick at the end is extremely embarrassing.
Found this a bit tiresome, very like Companeros and Run Man Run with bits of TGTBTU thrown in. Non-stop hectic farcical comedy. Far too long at nearly 2 hours. Jack Palance and Ennio Morricone sorely missed.
The action scenes were particularly silly and all went on far too long. Lots of continuity issues presumably deliberately which props reappearing after being discarded. The gag of Wallach’s shotgun killing several people in one shot repeated and repeated. Redgrave demonstrates unexpected boxing skills but the scene of her boxing with two guards goes on for several minutes.
I watched the German Blu Ray which is the uncut 115m version. English track with Nero and Wallach dubbing own voices. Assume Redgrave does too but she has a silly Irish accent so difficult to tell. No subtitles for the 15m never dubbed into English.
Most of the cut footage in the English print is two long sections of 8m and 7m respectively. The first section comes immediately after Nero & Wallace meet up with Redgrave after escaping jail. Whole section cut until after they leave the border town. Second cut comes after they kill Victor Israel - whole section cut from there until after they escape from prison on motorbike. As a result Redgrave is missing for about 45m of the movie in the short version.
By the way - this is the Amazon plot synopsis for The Killer From Yuma, which seems to bare little relation to the movie:
The day Donna Tate returned to her ranch and found her father dead, she knew Dan Radek and his sons were responsible. But the law ruled otherwise. Now Donna would have to try to get her revenge by whatever means were available to her – by paying for Max Varra’s escape from prison.
Varra was a man betrayed by the Radeks long before. He was sent to prison for twenty years – and those years had turned a ruthless man into a savage beast. Would freeing Max Varra from the Yuma Prison prove the perfect vengeance – or would it trigger a senseless bloodbath.
I’ve watched this recently too and was very disappointed with it. Probably not surprising as I’m not a fan of any of the real slapstick / comedic spags. I found both Redgrave’s and Nero’s accents irritating.
Think I watched the same version as you Wobble.
