May God Forgive You … But I Won’t / Chiedi perdono a Dio … non a me (Vincenzo Musolino, 1968)

[Admin (Sebastian)]

listed as about 90mins, new 4K master… so that sounds encouraging

[JonathanCorbett]

@JonathanCorbett

Finally I found more information about the two releases.

The first one, submitted in August 1968, was rated VM18 after several cuts in five scenes, among which the mouth-shooting one. The resulting film length was 2434 metres, equivalent to 89m. An appeal was made in October, but the unfavourable rating was confirmed by a vote of five to four.

A second, different release (with documented film length 2510 metres, equivalent to 91m40s), in which the prologue and conclusion missing from the Italian DVD were certainly present, was authorized without cuts and with a VM14 rating in December 1968.

I should like to make one thing clear here: it’s true that the 2nd release (nuova edizione) was approved by censors in its entirety, but many scenes had been cut by the production before submitting the movie a second time to the Committee for Film Review.

And now we know for sure that the whole graveyard thing was not part of the original VM18 version.

The 2007 DVD from Hobby&Work (not to be confused with the one of much better quality released by Sony Pictures four years later) contains the VM14 release.

[Admin (Sebastian)]

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[QuickDraw (Lewis)]

There’s a new poll for this one at the top of the page under the original post!

[Admin (Sebastian)]

Quite all over the place, this one. Some nice ideas, too many possibly (as some of you have observed correctly), some decent craftsmanship but overall a bit too diffuse, and constantly tic-tocing between “wow this is quite something” and “damn that looks cheap”…

[MABUSECAST]

I watched this one today! A solid spaghetti western hidden gem featuring the main character “Cjamango” on a quest of revenge!

This doesn’t reinvent the wheel or anything like that but is a rock solid example of a spaghetti western deep cut that does what it is supposed to do and does not overstay its welcome!

Also Cjamango says the title of the movie before shooting someone in the mouth which is worth the price of admission alone!

[runner]

@MABUSECAST

A solid spaghetti western hidden gem featuring the main character “Cjamango” on a quest of revenge!

Yes solid IMO :

63 Pecos Cleans Up (Maurizio Lucidi) music Coriolano Gori 1967
64 Any Gun Can Play (Enzo G. Castellari) music Francesco De Masi 1967
65 May God Forgive You … But I Won’t (Vincenzo Musolino) music Felice Di Stefano 1968
x66 Thunder Over El Paso/Revenge In El Paso (Roberto Bianchi Montero) 1972
67 Cjamango (Edoardo Mulargia) music Felice Di Stefano 1967

The leading actor is not so interesting but maybe that smart guy is - Jack Smart ? I guess the music by Di Stefano was as good as usual…