It was a period of 1960s āOld Geezerā diversity ā¦ every film had to have one 
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I can live with the Josef Egger variety. One or two scenes, and be done with it. But not a quarter of the film with its own tune over and over again. 
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I can see where youāre coming from but I love Egger in the first two Dollars films, his scene in For a Fewā¦ being one of my favourites. I canāt exactly blame them for trying to copy him.
Does anyone know where to find French audio for this? The French BluRay will be delayed until 2024 but restoration is already finished I am told. So it will likely be Italian with French subtitlesā¦
This also means we should be seeing releases in other territories which is great because I like this one a lot!!!
not automatically but if they did a great job and will sell the material to others then maybe 
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I must say having just seen this for the first time I was disappointed with it. Too many subplots with no consequence and a pretty thin script.
- started off badly with a pre-credits scene that was intended obviously to have the credits go up over it. Instead, the credits go up separately afterwards
ā¢ Lanky stalks Sancho and his two chums for about 15m with his scoped rifle but doesnāt shoot them. Instead, he challenges them to a āfairā fight and shoots them from close range with his pistol. Seems like they just extended this to give Sancho some airtime to justify his guest star status
- scenes with the āprophetā character - too many of them as others have said
ā¢ the whole Molly/Steve thing could have gone - no impact on narrative. Similar with subplot about Gusās brother. Like others, I was a bit baffled as to why Gus was a Mexican with an American name and had an American brother
ā¢ I didnāt find Craig Hill a very interesting character. It would have helped if he could have cracked a few jokes. I agree that his revenge motive seemed a throwaway.
ā¢ Iāve seen lots of Sartana/SAbata films so I was expecting Ressel and Lulli to be bad guys as well. Is this the only film in which Lulli is an honest man? If this had been made after Sartana they would have been a double-twist with them as bad guys.
Overall. A 5 out of 10 from me.
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The BluRay can now be pre-ordered from Frenzy. Amazon/FNAC may follow at a later point.
Details: Per il gusto di uccidere/BluRay - The Spaghetti Western Database
Is the French Blu uncut, or whatever cut it is?
As far as I know all of the available DVDs are cut, even the Koch disc even though they (well at least one of themā¦) should have known something is missing.
But I suppose answering the question is not possible unless you know what might be missing.
Such a great filmā¦ hope we get another release in another territory.
well they claim it is, and with closer to 90 than 80 minutes, that might trackā¦ do we know more about versions for this?
would like to know if this new bluray has english audioā¦ I watched the version thatās up on youtube and was pleasantly surprised, a very fun film.
Italian audio only.
French subtitles.
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Anyone have the Italian Surf Video DVD?
Back cover says 96 minutes and database says 91 minutes.
I am tempted to buy it just to compare the runtimes.
I donāt have it, but OFDB says it runs 83:49 min.
The German DVD (which I own) runs 84:48 min (Pal runtime), and is listed as uncut. If thatās wrong, whatās missing?
There is also a note on OFDB:
Bemerkungen:
Ab 83:43 wird Fine eingeblendet.
Scharfes Bild, aber teilweise zu dunkle Farben.
Es soll eine Fassung von 102 Minuten geben. .
You are aware of the BluRay pages in the SWDb?
I know, but this runtime is again taken from the data that once were posted on the Anica.It website. Bruckner calculated the Italian runtimes using these data.
The problem is that many of these data do not correspondent with the versions we have, and which are supposed to be uncut. These data seem not to be very reliable.
The longest known version runs 87 min. And thatās the one on the DVD.
And DVD PAL runtimes canāt be directly compared to BluRay runtimes either.
Sorry, I just like to stir trouble.
But the DVDs are missing small pieces that basically amount to almost nothing, but hey, cut is cut.
As far as I remember (and Iām trying to remember things from 10-15 years ago) the Wild East disc (I suspect the old Japanese DVD then be the same but canāt confirm) has one or couple of extra shots on the scene where the bandits are entering the hut and Hank is spying on them far away. These are missing on the Koch disc.
And then this sentence and scene is not complete on either of the discs
Gus: ā-Thereās a rat too many in Texas, until Hank Fellows dies.ā
The āuntil Hank Fellows diesā line is missing. The only reason I know is because this quote was on Shobaryās page and I asked him and he said his copy of the movie has it.
Of course the French Blu has no English audio so canāt just listen.
I have the Italian DVD somewhere but I canāt remember if I actually checked it or notā¦
EDIT:
The line is actually here (1:18:10):
So perhaps the Blu will also have it (well not since itās not in English but you knowā¦)