Savage Guns - Four Classic Westerns Volume 3 Limited Edition Blu-Ray

Crazy outlaws thirsting for blood! Corrupt capitalists who make money off the suffering of ordinary people! Desperate people driven to violent revenge! The Italian western film has never been wilder than in this quartet of cult classics from the later period, 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 plays a former Confederate soldier who swears revenge after his sister is raped and murdered, putting him on a collision course with an evil plan to disrupt the peace talks between the North and South. In Edoardo Mulargia's El Puro (1969; a.k.a. The Reward's Yours... The Man's Mine), Western icon Robert Woods (My Name is Pecos) gives perhaps his best performance as a legendary gunslinger who is forced out of hiding after the bounty hunters who are after him murder the kind-hearted bar girl (Rosalba Neri, who also stars in the film).murder the kind-hearted bar girl (Rosalba Neri, Smile Before Death) who offered him a new life.

In Mario Camus's The Fury of the Wind (1970), genre 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) star in Lucio Fulci's 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. A ruthless bandit attacks them and the four fight for their lives - until it's time for revenge.

Four of the toughest, cruelest, and bloodiest classics from Italian western cinema are featured in this jam-packed box set from Arrow Films. With stunning High Definition restorations and a wealth of brand new bonus material produced especially for this release, Savage Guns delivers – from both barrels!

4-DISC LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

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

2K restorations of all four films from the original 35mm camera negatives, with El Puro newly restored by Arrow Films for this release

Italian and English opening and closing titles on all four films

Restored Italian and English audio tracks in lossless mono 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

Brand new introductions to each film by journalist and critic Fabio Melelli

Illustrated collection booklet with new texts about the films by author and critic Howard Hughes

Fold-out double-sided poster with new commissioned illustration by Gilles Vranckx

Limited edition with reversible covers featuring original illustrations and a cover with new commissioned illustrations by Gilles Vranckx

DISC 1 - I WANT TO SEE HIM DEAD

Brand new audio commentary by critics Adrian J. Smith and David Flint

The Man Who Hated Violence - brand new interview with director Paolo Bianchini

Cut and Shot - brand new interview with editor Eugenio Alabiso

Nico Unchained - archive interview with composer Nico Fidenco

English theatrical trailer

Photo gallery

DISC 2 - EL PURO

Two versions of the film: the 98-minute cut, presented in Italian and English, and the longer, 108-minute version, assembled from the original camera negative and an archive print and presented in both Italian and a newly created hybrid English/Italian mix*.

Brand new audio commentary by critics Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson

Brand new interview with actor Robert Woods

A brand new, in-depth description of the soundtrack and its composer, Alessandro Alessandroni, by musician and record collector Lovely Jon

DISK 3 - THE Wrath of the Wind

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

Brand new audio commentary by author and critic Howard Hughes

Days of Wrath - brand new 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.Trinity's Revenge," recently restored for this release

Image gallery

DISK 4 - APOCALYPSE'S FOUR

Brand new audio commentary by writer and producer Kat Ellinger

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

Brand new, in-depth review of the film by author, critic, and Lucio Fulci researcher Stephen Thrower

Brand new, in-depth review of the soundtrack and its composers, Franco Bixio, Fabio Frizzi, and Vince Tempera by musician and record collector Lovely Jon. Newly restored theatrical trailer. Image gallery. For some scenes and dialogues in the long version, the Italian audio is either lost or was never produced. These are presented in Spanish with English subtitles. These are presented in Spanish with English subtitles.