I doubt that another version exists.
All these different runtimes for dozens of Spags are quite puzzling, but the released versions are usually those which are considered uncut.
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I have lost track of running times for the SWāsā¦just as I have for numerous titles that every SW poses underā¦
I think you need to accept that when you love SWsā¦itās like changing āA Hole in the Foreheadā (genuine title) to āA Slug in the Arseholeāā¦
Not accurateā¦but the kind of thing that went on with SW titles.
I think that even the SW American actors became confused with what they had appeared in, and what it was released asā¦?
Ha ha, yes, but nowadays the releases are at least mostly the best available.
It has been passed without in the UK. There are no horsefalls as I doubt the production could afford the stunts.
I forgot to mention earlier but there was an interesting comment in the liner notes of the Koch DVD suggesting the film was a Vietnam parable.
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Have you all pre-ordered the BluRay? 
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Yes! The only way to keep āem coming.
Yessir 
Pre-ordered and looking forward to watching with the English dub!
I confess, my old Koch Media DVD will remain.
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my opinion is that we never wonāt see the missing parts anyway. Maybe they were destroyed after the cuts the producers ordered. Sad but true, I guess.
Amazon have shipped the Blu-ray.
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Just finished my rewatch of the new 88 Films blu-ray for Shango. The new 4K restorations looks lovely. There are a few glimpses of print damage but nothing that majorly detracts the viewing experience. I watched this in English which sounded great. I did give the Italian audio a quick test in the middle and it sounded just as good. I havenāt had a read of the booklet yet but it looked interesting from a quick skim through and thereās lots of images of lobby cards etc in there too.
The big enjoyment from this though was the new interview with Steffenās son, Manuel. Its just a short 17 minute interview but he talks about the reasons behind his fathers retirement, recalls Tarantinoās 2007 Spaghetti Retrospective where he met Sergio Garrone, and also went a little bit over his book he wrote about his father (which he announced is getting an English translation and release under the title āOnce Upon a Time in Romeā).
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The most horrendously cheap spaghetti western Iāve ever seen featuring Anthony Steffen and Eduardo Fajardo. I probably watched a censored version (it barely ran 80 minutes, which still felt pretty damn long), but even so, the movie is understandable enough, and I donāt think a few extra violent scenes could save it from total mediocrity, because the real problem is that the plot is practically nonexistent: a lousy Django knockoff where Confederates and Mexicans (allied here for reasons I still donāt quite understand) oppress a town while chasing Steffen so heāll tell them where some money is hidden. The plot is basically just an excuse to watch Steffen magically appear over and over again, killing bad guys with guns that seem to have infinite ammo. I might appreciate the almost mythical aura of Steffenās character if we hadnāt already seen him playing the exact same role before in Django the Bastard.
I hate that fucking CinecittĆ mexican village set where other cheap Italian spaghetti westerns were also shot, like A Stranger in town, Five Giants from Texas, or Mulargiaās Cjamango. In fact, I fucking hate Cjamango and Iāve come to realize that Edoardo Mulargia just isnāt my thing ā I donāt like almost any of his spaghetti westerns, except maybe Why Go On Killing?.
But then again, I donāt really know what else I couldāve expected from a movie called SHANGO, honestly.
3/10 for me