Iāve made some of the changes - any more notable things not covered in the review I should add?
Thereās some good info in Corbucciās ā(auto)biographyā by Caldiron. Right now the Frenchness of the production is not coming across. Unfortunately I donāt really have time to help you much, but send me a message with contact info and I could send you some page scans.
Unfortunately, the book seems to be long out of print. A book Iāve always wanted to read is his wifeās memory of him: āIl regista del mio cuoreā, but Iāve never managed to locate a copy.
My Eureka Blu-Ray has been standing on the shelf for awhile until the other day when I decided to give it a spin - In hope that the āPartialā English dub is not as bad as people here have made it out to be. Well, they where right - Itās unwatchable, OK maaaybe I couldāve lived with the language going back and forth but thereās total drop outs here and there? Itās seems to be the same audio as the French VHS. Eureka would defiantly be better off not putting this dub on here. I love the package of the release though, very beautiful, but Iāll probably stick to do the French dub until we get a full English audio.
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Iām rewatching this film right now, as I now have the KL Blu-ray disc.
It has been more than a decade, since last viewed, but my feelings toward it are virtually the same.
A quite boring movie, with a lot of ideas that donāt work. Same goes for the music. The hippies are really annoying. The fights are terrible. I didnāt care for any of the characters, but overall the cast is ok. Nevertheless, the casting should have been better. Tomas Milian or Fernando Sancho instead of Adorf for example, and a bit more convincing lead actor of course; Nero or Gemma. The femme fatale in this shouldāve been portrayed by someone other than the plain Jane we have here.
Probably Corbucciās worst western in terms of entertainment value. The story telling is also crap. Still not a bad movie, looks good, but one would expect better from Sergio Corbucci. Will watch again in another ten years.
Why is the bartender wearing a fez?
My Corbucci western filmography ranking:
- Companeros
- Django
- The Mercenary
- Sonny & Jed
- The Great Silence
- The Hellbenders
- Navajo Joe
- Johnny Oro
- Minnesota Clay
- The White, the Yellow and the Black
- What am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution
- Massacre at Grand Canyon
- The Specialist
But, Hallyday kills a guy with a cash register!
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Agree that it needed better casting and it the plot is a series of cliches but it still has its merits and for me would still rank 7th or 8th in a Corbucci list. The White, the Yellow and the Black would take some shifting out of last place on that list.
Hello! New here- Iām looking to download a version of this with English dubbed as my eyesight is not good enough for subtitles.
I saw some posts that said can be downloaded at āthe usual spotā being new here- could someone tell me how to locate that site- and is it free to download?
Happy to be here lots of great info.
Thank you!
The only English dubbed version currently out there seems to be the incomplete and qualitatively so-so UK BluRay
That dub was taken from the VHS that I have. Like Iāve mentioned before, the only reason portions are missing are because of missing frames.
Thanks for the help. Do you know if the UK version would work on my blue ray player made in the states?
Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions.
Iāve been obsessively watching these SW since the pandemic started.
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You can download it from public trackers if you donāt want to but the actual disc.
depends, if it is a multi region player, then it will. pretty sure the UK disc is region locked to Bā¦
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ExceIIent. With a magnificent book inside.
A must!
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Just listened to the Alex Cox commentary on the UK Blu-ray. What a great commentary! Reminds me how much Iāve always appreciated Alex Coxās take on the genre.
One great point he makes is how many unnecessary filler scenes there are that could just be removed. It occurs to me that if you were to cut out all the fluff, what remains could be really great.
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Hmm, but the much shorter German version was a pretty worse one. Actually I donāt see real filler scenes in The Specialists, but some parts of the film are done rather unimaginative. The directing is still often inspired, but there are also some lazy parts, and the story telling is also sometimes lacking. But the ending is one of the most unusual ones for any genre film up to that year. Resembling images of Pasoliniās Salo, which was made 7 years later.
After Corbucci had made his 2 best films the year before The Specialists was a major step back, and later in his career it seems that Corbucci wanted to proof that it is possible to lose everything of the talent one once had developed.
The Specialists was hardly the stuff to rival Il grande Silenzio and Il mercenario, but it could have become a much better film.
A quick hack job to fit something into a shorter runtime for the purpose of distributors wasnāt quite what I had in mind. Some careful trimming wonāt make it into a masterpiece, but it would help bring out the best bits.
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@Carlos has upgraded this movieās page in the SWDb to the new āSWDb 3.0ā format .
Please have a look and let us know if thereās something you can add (information, trivia, links, pictures, etc.).
Hereās a poll for The Specialists. Top of the page 
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I just watched this one again.
If someone could update the main page: Gli Specialisti
At least some of the āfilming locationā was set at Elios Film Studios
Thanks,
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