Ya know, i just watched this two weeks ago and i can hardly remember anything about it other than being underwhelmed.
Yea it is odd that i can still remember this usually a few days after seeing a forgettable spaghetti western i forget it pretty fast. This always happens with the Sartana series the four always run together. There great but for some reason they run together in my memory. Accept for light the fuse because it is so different. Who can forget the piano?
Watched it last night and while it is not the best movie and definitely not a Sartana movie I did find it entertaining and nice to see William Berger in a good lead role. I watched the version that is in the Spaghetti Western Bible Volume 2 and I have to say the film and audio quality are very good. Very clear audio and nice clean picture.
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I actually kinda liked this one. Berger does some cool stuff with a gun, and there is a fair amount of decent action⌠Apart from the Sandpit of Doom and some hideous shots of people riding through âdesertâ, itâs pretty good, and the clock-work dolls are great.
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Ah yes, the dolls were neat. Them i remember.
Saw this about a year ago.
Not much to say except that Berger seems to run into an attractive female every 15 minutes (time it) and I believe there was an interesting settling of accounts involving a scorpion for the climax(?).
Also found it peculiar that, at one point, Berger shoots the ground and explosions go off. ???
I assume he set dynamite under the ground but we never see this happen (probably due to cuts).
Other than that, not much else to say.
Bergerâs other solo western (Ringoâs Big Night) is much better.
Best bit really.
[quote=âYourPallbearer, post:46, topic:1283â]Also found it peculiar that, at one point, Berger shoots the ground and explosions go off. ???
I assume he set dynamite under the ground but we never see this happen (probably due to cuts).[/quote]
Yes, this is what happened in the uncut version there was dynamite thrown on the ground. I merged the uncut fullscreen VHS version with the Cest La Vie widescreen cut version.
The vid I got ainât fullscreen - in fact itâs wider than the dvd ⌠compare these shots -
Câest La Vie dvd
âOooh, I wonder what she looks like?â
Inter Ocean vid
âOoooh - not bad!â
You shouldnât cut her out!
(Actually Iâve never understood these terms fully - do we mean open-matte, or is this indeed âfullscreenâ?)
Rev, I think the one on top is cropped to make a fake widescreen DVD. Not uncommon.
And now that anamorphic stuff is all the rage some films are being cropped to fit widescreen TVs rather than being presented in original aspect ratio.
Some films are cropped to odd aspect ratios for other reasons, such as to hide damage to the sides of the print.
[quote=âYourPallbearer, post:46, topic:1283â]Also found it peculiar that, at one point, Berger shoots the ground and explosions go off. ???
I assume he set dynamite under the ground but we never see this happen (probably due to cuts).[/quote]
Yean, I have to admit, this bit left me scratching my head. Hopefully the uncut version the Revâs sending me will give me the full story!
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Good Iâm not alone about this.
Open-matte shows the stuff at the top and bottom of the screen that would normally be obscured by the black bars. Full screen crops the sides 'til you get a 4:3 picture.
Hereâs another low budget flick that I consider ok to like. some ideas are reminiscent of âSentenza di morteâ but unfortunately the absence of a real desert destroys it.
Wrote a review in my blog, here: POR UM PUNHADO DE EUROS: Sartana nella valle degli avvoltoi (1970 / Realizador: Roberto Mauri)
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[quote=âp.pereira, post:54, topic:1283â]Hereâs another low budget flick that I consider ok to like. some ideas are reminiscent of âSentenza di morteâ but unfortunately the absence of a real desert destroys it.
Wrote a review in my blog, here: http://por-um-punhado-de-euros.blogspot.pt/2012/10/sartana-nella-valle-degli-avvoltoi-1970.html[/quote]
A good point! Never thought about it that way, but it really is like a poor mans version of Death sentence.
It should be renamed Sartana in the Quarry of Death.
[quote=âCol. Douglas Mortimer, post:55, topic:1283â]A good point! Never thought about it that way, but it really is like a poor mans version of Death sentence.
It should be renamed Sartana in the Quarry of Death.[/quote]
Indeed - Iâve always referred to it as âthe Sandpit of Doomâ
Itâs a shit âvalleyâ but I have a soft spot for the film and the clockwork doll. Great print from câest la vie used to be got for next to nowt.
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If Iâm not mistake in one scene Sartana faint due to his dehydration but actually a mud pool is right in front of him.
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Annoyingly cropped though, top and bottom, as can be seen from your screenshot campirson.
[quote=âBad Lieutenant, post:58, topic:1283â]Annoyingly cropped though, top and bottom, as can be seen from your screenshot campirson.[/quote]Isnât it also heavily cut?
Oh yeah, I forgot Iâd put those on. But nice punchy colours on the cest la vie - and as I said, could be got very cheaply. I wasnât too bothered about the top ânâ tailing, but cutting her offâs a bit of a shame.
Iâve just read the thread - seems Ennioo thinks the InterOcean version adds a bit more characterisation - I just remember extended fisticuffs, which I could do without. All in all - I still like the cest la vie dvd, and when I watch it again (not just yet though 
), Iâd probably opt for that version.