The Best (or Worst) of Demofilo Fidani aka Miles Deeem, Sean O'Neil, Slim Alone

Yes, the quality is of course not as bad as it could be in comparison to some others. But I guess I am getting spoiled on the amazing amount of fandubs/edits that are available these days.

The picture is not terrible in that scene, but a lot of the video is pretty bad in other places.

One of my favorite scenes from a favorite director, and I was hoping to go back and get the scene in better quality from the Wild East “One Damned Day” - but alas, it is nowhere to be found.

Would love to upgrade several Fidanis really… watching They Came To Kill Sartana now and it is a fandub, but the video has that jerky/stepping playback in the motion that is really obnoxious- seems a lot of the available Fidanis have these issues.

I think it must be.
Hunt Powers and Dean Stratford were only in two Fidani films together (I think).
In One Damned Day at Dawn… there is a similar stand-off on the same windy street but against a Mexican?

Yep, I went through that part a bit slower as it looked a bit similar- not nearly as well executed though.

The sequence was filmed for Giù le mani… carogna specifically.

Against six men led by the same Dino Strano/Dean Stratford :wink:

Right, but there is one duel specifically that is similar to the discussed scene- a Mexican wearing red.

Haha… just went back to edit the video info and correct the scene information, and noticed that someone has disliked this video (given it the almighty thumbs down)

Who can dislike this scene?

I voted Barrel Full of Dollars but it’s a real close race between that one and Dead Men Don’t Make Shadows! Enjoyed the absurdity of Savage Guns, as well, although I enjoy the Django/Sartana spin offs a bit less, overall.

I love this guy’s movies, but have a real hard time with Anything for a Friend. For me this is by far his worst film, even worse than his cut & paste job Django Story.

The rest of his westerns all get sufficient marks from me.

His giallo is ok and I had some fun with Karzan (indeed a spaghetti Tarzan). Saw a softcore film of him once, which was sort of enjoable too.

Which two were these, mate?

I remember renting ‘Fistful of Death’ from Blockbuster many years ago…back when the only Spaghetti’s that seemed to be available were the bad ones. Well, Fistful of Death was a bad one. It committed the worse crime of all. It was BORING! I swear that I needed 3 viewings to get through the whole thing. The biggest question is of course, why did I go back!?

IMDb users rating:

The way I see it, Ed ora… raccomanda l’anima a Dio placed first is not at all convincing and Era Sam Wallash… lo chiamavano ‘E così sia’ in 3rd last place is definitely underrated.

The list I made in 2012 is on Reply#36.
OK, maybe I exaggerated a bit with Ed ora raccomanda l’anima a Dio ranked last… :slightly_smiling_face:

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My favourite of his has to be Dead Men Don’t Make shadows.

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I just realized I don’t think I ever got around to watching my WE DVD of that :flushed:

Yh, same one I’ve got. It’s not great, but for Fidani it is…

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For Fidani, it is a masterpiece. :laughing:

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Very true!