Sorry if this topic has come up before, but missing films and television are a great interest of mine. I was wondering if there are any Italian Westerns that are definitely known to have been released which have completely disappeared from circulation.
Thanks in advance.
this one seems to be one:
https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Crisantemi_per_un_branco_di_carogne
Thanks, that’s really interesting. I know a big Edmund Purdon fan on another forum who I’ll mention the film to in case they’ve heard of it.
Don’t have too much time today, but I’ll do some research later this week
Giusti has a chapter on movie projects that never were started, were abandoned or led to a result that is said to exist, but can’t be traced (anymore)
The Italian SW database has this list:
Irreperibili in qualsiasi lingua:
Crisantemi per un branco di carogne
I fantasmi di Omah-Ri
I quattro pistoleri di Santa Trinità
Per 50.000 maledetti dollari
Sette pistole per El Gringo
Tutto sul rosso
Un dollaro di fuoco
Una bara per ringo
Vamos a matar Sartana
i quattro pistoleri di santa trinita (four gunmen of the holy trinity) Peter lee lawrence is avalible on DVDr
and also Sette Pistole per El Gringo (Rio Maldito/Seven pistols for a gringo) on DVDr
Per 50.000 maledetti dollari is a eurospy movie (very rare but there are German and Spanish prints), and Tutto sul rosso a eurocrime movie (unreleased to my knowledge).
Una bara per ringo is the non-original italian title for the German/Spanish western Wer kennt Jonny R, available in… German (cut) and Spanish (uncut) prints.
Un dollaro di fuoco is available in French and Spanish prints.
The lost ones are definitely
-Vamos a matar Sartana (prints seem to be circulating, but extremely rare)
-Crisantemi per un branco di carogne
-I fantasmi di Omah-Ri (unknown if this production even got finished)
Every hardcore collector has been looking for Vamos a Matar and Crisantemi for ages, and yes, this topic has come up before 
Thanks to Chris Casey I now know that Omah-Ri was never finished. And it wasn’t supposed to be a Western but and Indiana Jones-like film with Richard Harrison.
Good to know.
Supposdly Mexican actor Jorge Rivero made 3 Sartana films in 1974 all directed by Mario Siciliano. This was told to Mike Malloy last year when he was interviewed for an upcoming documentary on Euro Crime films. Whether these films were ever completed or released is unknown.
Adios Sartana – 1974 (Sartana)
Here Comes Sartana – 1974 (Sartana)
Return of Sartana – 1974
Never heard about 'em!
Do any of those films have imdb entries?
Man… Jorge Rivero as Sartana. That would have been great!
Of course Rivero did work with Siciliano in 1975 on the supernatural giallo Malocchio.
Yes, but I’ve never seen the movie.
No, we’re talking about a film set in Italy (southern Tuscany) during the nineteenth century.
From 1982 to 1985 this rare movie was aired a few times on local TV stations (Capodistria, G.R.P. acronym for Giornale Radio Piemonte, Quartarete, Telesubalpina).
Hey, all!
I’m doing research on Chile’s big Charles Bronson lookalike, the late Fenelon Guajardo, who actually had a slight showbiz career in the 1970s. He claimed he made a Spaghetti Western that decade at Chile’s Far West town set, with an Italian director whom he remembers as being named Leonardo Mancini. The English translation of the title he gave is “The Seven Copper Men.”
He remembered several specific BTS stories from the production, and Italy did have a penchant for making movies with celebrity lookalikes. So I’m not necessarily discounting his claims.
Can anyone point me to any further evidence of this? I’ll recognize any help with a Special Thanks. I’m actually doing a documentary short on the three Charles Bronson lookalikes who had showbiz careers.
I hope you’ll check out the Instagram I started for the doc and follow along: