Man Who Cried for Revenge / Il suo nome gridava vendetta (Mario Caiano, 1968)

I hope that this label understands the importance of English subtitles or audio track!

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Could be CMV or OFDb Filmworks

@ElDavido:
If the license owner allows it any German label will put English audio/subtitels on the release.
In 99% it is not the fault of the label if it is not included.

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@Grinder

Any news on this release?

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Unfortunately no news :expressionless:
I will ask again and let you know…

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I’d certainly snap it up if this was put out.

Same!


Are we gonna ignore William Berger’s cursed image moment from this film?

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I have received Feedback from Label.
Likely in 2025 on Blu Ray in Germany…

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Ooh nice. Which label? Or are you not allowed to say :shushing_face:

Nice one. Thanks for the info @Grinder

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I hope it is English friendly :crossed_fingers:

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It will be released from a small Independent Label with very little and slow output.
It will be english friendly If license holder allows.

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This is available on UK Amazon prime - free to Prime subscribers (Prime also gives you free postage on Amazon product). Reasonable print in English - English credits A Name That Cried Revenge. Not bad - I’d give it 5 out of 10 - started well but lost steam and dissolved into a huge shoot out. The Berger character’s motivation was all over the place. Why didn’t he just shoot Steffen dead from the start or even when he had him captured in the barn at the end rather than beat him up? Ida Galli and Mario Brega largely wasted. The final shoot out had day/night continuity issues with the filter not always on. I quite liked the music.

The ever unreliable Thomas Weisser’s plot description seems to be for a completely different movie as he says Steffen plays a character called ā€˜Drake’ after revenge against four men for the rape and murder of his wife who are protected by a powerful land baron. Where did his source his stuff from?

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William Berger had some choice words about this film (and co-star Anthony Steffen) in an interview with Christian Kessler (originally published in European Trash Cinema fanzine No.13, 1996, and reprinted by Daniel Camargo, FĆ”bio Vellozo and Rodrigo Pereira in the excellent biography ā€˜Anthony Steffen: A saga do brasileiro que se tornou astro do bangue-bangue Ć  italiana’, 2007):

My first Steffen western was quite a horrible experience for me because it was such a good screenplay at the beginning. When I finished ā€˜Face to Face’ for Sollima, he told me that the Siringo character I played in this film was supposed to occupy a much bigger part in his next western. He wrote the entire screenplay for me. Tomas Milian and I were supposed to play the leading parts, but because there were some delays I accepted the Steffen project.
Two weeks into shooting, ā€˜Run Man Run’ was ready to be shot, and I couldn’t work on it because I was stuck with that damn Steffen crap. I only signed for it because of the great treatment they gave me to read. Unfortunately, they changed the screenplay according to Steffen. The original story went like this. The hero has lost his memory, doesn’t know what happened to him and who he actually is. I play his enemy, pretending to be his best friend. The whole story was very much a psychological thing, full of very well written dialogue and fascinating ideas. Much beyond the usual spaghetti western scenarios. When I read the screenplay, I couldn’t believe my eyes. Steffen, of course, wanted to play the hero who immediately knows who is the evil one to be liquidated and who isn’t. God. What a shit. If I only would have waited for the Sollima film.

Screenplay change or not, I think it’s one of Steffen’s best with a killer main theme too.

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That would have put ā€˜Run Man, Run’ easily into a top 10 ranking … Donal O’Brien does ok as ā€˜Cassidy’ … but Berger would have simply blown him out of the water with one smug smile …

:wink:

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I thought the first half or so of this one was pretty good, but it kind of went downhill for me once it became just one action sequence after another. Great cast but they don’t all impress; Galli & Brega are largely wasted, Baldassare comes and goes very quickly, and Berger (who I love) honestly seems like he’s phoning it in a bit. I thought Steffen was actually a bit more animated than usual, but Hundar probably was the standout for me performance wise.

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@Admin
Some additional info from the Spanish DVD

Label: Not sure, amazon lists it as Llamentol. Can not find anything on the back cover except a number LL3366.
Audio: Spanish, Italian, German
Subtitles: Spanish and Portuguese
Image is 1,85:1 cropped compared to the version on Youtube.
Running time 90 minutes, 50 seconds (PAL)
Extras: None

Spanish DVD

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