Yeah, it was pretty good score, especially for what seemed like a lower budgeted SW. I have the film on one of those ultra-cheap, multi-film boxsets. Does anyone know if there is a better version of it around?
I have that cheap box set too and amazingly my old crap VHS copy of that film has better picture quality!?!
Sadly, thatâs not surprising at all. What are these DVD companies doing?!
I guess we canât expect anything more from that particular collection. It only cost about $10 or so for 50 films!
And I assume they are all public domain prints being copied over and over from each other.
I believe Cine City Planet has it. On dvdr itâs 18 euros and he also sells (sold?) the source tape, a Dutch VHS, which is widescreen and has Dutch subtitles. (25 euros). I would love to see the movie widescreen. Right now I have the same version as you, which doesnât do the movie justice. When you only look at the opening titles, you know how much they chopped of the edges. Horrible. And sad. But Iâm not going to spend 18 euros on a dvdr, or 25 euros on an old vhs. Just a matter of principle.
Exactly. I have no problem getting a dvdr when a film doesnât have a proper presentation on a commercial disc but you canât charge that much for one. $10 would be much more reasonableâŚ
[quote=âPhil H, post:84, topic:35â]I guess we canât expect anything more from that particular collection. It only cost about $10 or so for 50 films!
And I assume they are all public domain prints being copied over and over from each other.[/quote]
Yeah. That seems to be the case with multiple SWs, unfortunatelyâŚ
Having said that, I have one cheap set from St Clair with 9 Swâs on it and 4 of them are pretty decent wide screen transfers. And for $5.99 for the set it was bloody good value.
Hmm. Donât know if Iâve seen that one. What films are in widescreen?
The Grand Duel, Minnesota Clay, Johnny Yuma and Any Gun Can Play.
It also features fullscreen versions of The Hellbenders,This Man Canât Die, It Can Be Done Amigo, Death Rides a Horse and White Comanche.
It even has some trailers and an Edd Byrnes bio documentary.
Itâs just called âSpaghetti Westernsâ and you tell it by itâs big âOver 13 Hours!â banner across the top of the cover. You may well already have these titles but if not you can usually find at DeepDiscount and such places.
[quote=âPhil H, post:90, topic:35â]The Grand Duel, Minnesota Clay, Johnny Yuma and Any Gun Can Play.
It also features fullscreen versions of The Hellbenders,This Man Canât Die, It Can Be Done Amigo, Death Rides a Horse and White Comanche.
It even has some trailers and an Edd Byrnes bio documentary.[/quote]
Oh, yes, I DO have that one! I just havenât watched anything on it yet. Thatâs cool that Minnesota Clay and Johnny Yuma are in widescreen (I already had widescreen copies of Grand Duel and Any Gun Can Play.) Iâll have to check one of those out tonightâŚ
Itâs this one you are talking about: http://www.axelmusic.com/productDetails/777966898193
But you might wanna go for this one instead: http://www.axelmusic.com/productDetails/011891951142
13 movies on 5 discs (20 hours). More or less the same movies. WS-version of Minnesota Clay, Johnny Yuma and Any Gun Can Play and Cut-throats Nine!
As far as I remember though the reason for these fantastic versions is that prints from Wild East and VCI have been stolen and re-used for these sets. Made a lot of people mad when it came out I remember.
Thatâs got to be the reason. When a film is in the public domain, any company can just take another companyâs transfer and release it themselves. Sad but true (as far as I know, anywayâŚ)
Itâs just the public domain laws in the states which are this open isnât it?
I donât know about the laws of any other countries so I canât comment. I only know that this is the case in the US, at least.
Bit of a bummer for Wild East but I guess it was the public domain angle which led them to choose those titles for release in the first place.
Sure is. You would have been shot in Europe 
Anyhow, we have got way off topic.
Letâs remind ourselves what this thread is supposed to be about.
This is not actually a still from one of her westerns but is how I like to remember the divine Miss Welch
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I was just about to comment on how off topic we were getting.
SoâŚhow 'bout that Loredana Nusciak, huh? Sheâs pretty awesomeâŚ
[quote=âflynnparadox, post:99, topic:35â]I was just about to comment on how off topic we were getting.
SoâŚhow 'bout that Loredana Nusciak, huh? Sheâs pretty awesomeâŚ[/quote]
You read my mind, amigo! I was just about to post about her!
Sheâs great in DJANGO and $10,000 BLOOD MONEY!
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