Savage Guns - Four Classic Westerns Volume 3 Blu-Ray

Crazy outlaws thirsting for blood! Corrupt capitalists profiting from the suffering of ordinary people! Desperate people driven to violent revenge! The Italian western film has never been more gritty than in this quartet of recent cult classics, where the genre's characteristic cynicism escalates into the radical pessimism that characterized the world in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In Paolo Bianchini's I Want Him Dead (1968), American actor Craig Hill (The Bloodstained Shadow) plays the lead role as a former Confederate soldier who swears revenge after his sister is raped and murdered, and thus ends up on a collision course with an evil plan to disrupt the peace talks between North and South. Then, in Edoardo Mulargia's El Puro (1969; also known as The Reward's Yours... The Man's Mine), Western icon Robert Woods (My Name is Pecos) gives arguably his greatest performance as a legendary gunslinger who is forced out of hiding after the bounty huntersmurder the devoted bar girl (Rosalba Neri, Smile Before Death) who offered him a new life. (1970), the genre's superstar Terence Hill (They Call Me Trinity) shows his darker side as a hired killer who finds his conscience when he and his brother (Mario Pardo, Knife of Ice) are hired by a ruthless landowner (Fernando Rey, The French Connection) to kill the leaders of a growing labor movement. Finally, Fabio Testi (What Have You Done to Solange?) and Tomas Milian (Don't Torture a Duckling) play the leading roles in Lucio Fulci's The Four of the Apocalypse (1975), in which a quartet of misfits go from sharing the same prison cell to embarking on a wild odyssey that will lead to torture, rape, and cannibalism. After falling prey to a ruthless bandit, the quartet fights for their lives—until it's time for revenge.

Four of the Italian Western's hardest, cruelest, and bloodiest classics burst from the screen in this jam-packed box set from Arrow Films. With dazzling High Definition restorations and a wealth of bonus material, Savage Guns delivers – from both barrels!

4-DISC SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

• 2K restorations of all four films from the original 35mm camera negatives

   

• High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentations of all four films

   

• Italian and English opening and closing titles on all four films

   

• Restored original lossless mono Italian and English audio tracks on all four films

   

• English subtitles for the Italian audio tracks

   

• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English audio tracks.
• Reversible covers featuring original artwork and a dust jacket with newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx

   

DISC 1 - I WANT TO SEE HIM DEAD

• Audio commentary by critics Adrian J. Smith and David Flint

   

• The Man Who Hated Violence - interview with director Paolo Bianchini

   

• Cut and Shot - interview with editor Eugenio Alabiso

   

• Nico Unchained - archive interview with composer Nico Fidenco

   

• English theatrical trailer

   

• Image gallery

   

DISC 2 - EL PURO

• Two versions of the film: the 98-minute version in Italian and English, and the longer 108-minute version, compiled from the original negative and an archive copy and presented in both Italian and an English/Italian hybrid mix*.

   

• Audio commentary by critics Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson

   

• Interview with actor Robert Woods

   

• An in-depth appreciation of the soundtrack and its composer Alessandro Alessandroni by musician and record collector Lovely Jon

   

DISC 3 - THE Wrath of the Wind

• Alternative, 106-minute Spanish-language version of the film, with additional and extended scenes not included in the Italian or English versions

   

• Audio commentary by author and critic Howard Hughes

   

• The Days of Wrath - interview with cinematographer Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli

   

• They Call It... Red Cemetery! - a short film from 2022 by filmmaker Francisco Lacerda, which serves as a love letter to the spaghetti western genre

   

• Alternative opening titles for ”The Trinity's Revenge”

   

• Image gallery

   

DISC 4 - THE FOUR OF THE APOCALYPSE

• Audio commentary by writer and producer Kat Ellinger

   

• It Takes Four - previously unreleased interview with production manager Roberto Sbarigia

   

• In-depth review of the film by author, critic, and Lucio Fulci scholar Stephen Thrower

   

• In-depth appreciation of the soundtrack and its composers, Franco Bixio, Fabio Frizzi, and Vince Tempera, by musician and record collector Lovely Jon

   

• Restored cinema trailer

   

• Image gallery

   

* For some scenes and dialogues in the long version, the Italian audio has either been lost or never produced. These are presented in Spanish with English subtitles.