Iâm fairly new to the board but have been an avid collector of italian westerns for the past few years now. I canât quite put my trigger finger on the attraction of the genre but I love the pop art style, OTT drama and grit of these films in comparison to the polished american made western. The rotoscope intros, spanish influenced scores, the iconographyâŚto name a few all seems to work.
Anyway back to topic.
I am currently looking at the film âWanted Johnny Texasâ ( Emimmo Salvi 1967).
I only have a good quality (Unfortunately Fullscreen) DVD version of the film with italian audio but recently picked up an english version. The english version was a terrible quality VHS transfer barely watchable.
Can you see where I am going with thisâŚ
I am about to start creating a fan based version combining the italian print with the english audio. I have started synching the english dialogue against the italian guide track. The intention is then to strip out dialogue sections of the italian track , eq then mixâŚblah blah. It takes some dedication I tell ya.
Before I get too far into this I perhaps should have asked the following obvious questions, hope you people can help out.
Does a good quality widescreen DVD transfer exist?
A few VHS transfers exist, has anyone seen a remotely acceptable version, pretty subjective I know?
Any of you have opinions to share about this particular filmâŚis it worth me spending a few days of my life satisfying myself with a better quality english audio version?
[quote=âStark, post:1, topic:1060â]⌠but recently picked up an english version. The english version was a terrible quality VHS transfer barely watchable.
A few VHS transfers exist, has anyone seen a remotely acceptable version, pretty subjective I know?[/quote]
My version comes from a German released video, in English with Greek subs. The quality is a bit washed out, a bit soft, a bit jerky and of course reasonably intrusive subs - and itâs fullscreen - but itâs not âterribleâ - Iâve got plenty worse than this.
[Edit: worth sticking a âsweatyâ Monika Brugger on againâŚ]
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Average movie. Fernando Sanchoâs role as sniper rifle-shooting gringo colonel was interesting. I also liked Monika Brugger a lot. Music was really great at times i think. But the story was so sketchy and half-baked that it brings the whole thing down, along with some uninteresting locations, uniteresting protagonist [in my opionion he wasnât an anti-hero but an asshole ] and villan behaving so over-the-top that it was impossible to take him seriously [he was killing or beating up every gangs memeber that said something he didnât like]. So all in all i would place it in a mediocre bunch. 5/10
I have this on my buy list. Weisser liked it but said it is either one of the best or worst !?! So I obviously donât know if it is worth it but itâs plot seemed fresh and interesting. Should I get this one? P.s I ask that question a lot because I am only 15 and donât have the money or rescources to buy them all the time.
Hmm ⌠Weisser has Wanted Johnny Texas in his 20 Favorite SWs, so we can assume that he has seen about 25 while writing his book.
Itâs a confused film storylike, shot in extra cheap looking locations, but in the middle of this disorderly hokum, you can find here and there several nice ideas, which are seldom developed, which donât get the whole film going, but which set this trash film clearly apart from the typical Fidani.
And sweaty Monika has a lot of nice moments.
And the crazy baddie of course, who needs not much of a reason to kill also lots of his own people, he is also worth a look.
So to speak a partly interesting mess.
Maybe you better try something more promising, before you climb down in the SW vaults to find possibly some dirty diamonds there, where mostly only garbage lies around.
Thanks for the reply stanton. By the way, the locations are apparently around Florence, Italy. I might just buy this one anyway maybe just for the hot italian chick everyone speaks so highly of.
The action is so so, you have to remind it was a very cheap film.
Salvi uses often fast motion which looks a bit silly and is a very primitive way to make scenes more dynamic.
The big shoot out near the end is one of those where the same guys get killed again and again.
But you donât look this film for the action, or for character development, or for cool dialogues.
You watch it for Monika, a blonde Sancho, a loony baddie, a strange sidekick, Rosalba Neri, some violence, and mainly for the way Monika looks and looks around.
Yeah, I was thinking it would be awesome if this one used squibs. It would be the only 60âs SPW that used them which I would see. But they donât and I havenât. Do you know any 60âs ones that have used squibs?
] and villan behaving so over-the-top that it was impossible to take him seriously [he was killing or beating up every gangs memeber that said something he didnât like]. So all in all i would place it in a mediocre bunch. 5/10