3/5. I need to watch this one again sometime. After watching the 4 Sartana movies I was expecting greatness from this, and it didn’t deliver. It’s fun but it didn’t thrill me like the first Sartana movie. On the positive side the US bluray is excellent quality.
This is great:
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Rewatching this after a long time. Better than I remembered (I think I remember mostly the slapsticky trickery parts of the sequel). And the Eureka disc looks quite good
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Finally watched this one today for the first time start to finish!
I found it to be a better then average non-leone spaghetti western with Lee Van Cleef, a good amount of acrobatics, shoot outs, and a banjo rifle!
The story of this one might be utter nonsense but I respect the commitment to the whole “western anti-hero meets hyper violent live action cartoon character” bit this one goes for!
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Is the title a double-entendre? Does Sabata not mean ‘Saturday’ in Italian or a derivation thereof so the title means ‘Hey amigo, it’s Saturday, your finished’ (as in finished work?). Or am I talking nonsense?
I noticed several missing scenes or shots:
- There’s a still of Sabata showing Stengel that the inside of his jacket is packed with dynamite sticks which is not a scene in the movie. I guess that originally must come before (or after) the dinner conversation between the two men, which explains how Sabata has got there unmolested and is why Stengel tries to kill Sabata with the knife inside his cane rather than a pistol.
- Banjo has some form of nightmare when he is in Jane’s bedroom. The camera zooms into his eye and then we cut to him sweaty and rolling about on the bed. It looks as if a flashback should bridge the two scenes. But there is no flashback. The nature of Banjo’s nightmare is never discussed afterwards either.
- After Banjo awakes from his nightmare, we see Jane getting dressed after a bath and we see her naked back before she puts some clothes on. There is a still of Jane standing in the bath (prior to dressing) which is not in the movie. I watched the UK Blu Ray which was the English print. I also checked out an Italian print on You Tube but this had an even shorter version of the scene which cut out her dressing as well and began with her already dressed. Is there a longer version of this anywhere?
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‘It’s Sabata, you’re closed’ , as in to be closed down, finished etc.
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