The Big Gundown Blu-Ray

The Big Gundown (La resa di conti) is a classic spaghetti western released in the same year as Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Sergio Corbucci's Django. This brutal film was directed by the great Sergio Sollima (Face to Face, Violent City) and gave western star Lee Van Cleef (Ride Lonesome) his first leading role ever.When bounty hunter Jonathan Corbett (Van Cleef) is hired to track down a Mexican farmer (Tomas Milian, in a career-defining role) who has been accused of a terrible crime, he is initially outwitted by the cunning bandit. But the relationship between the two men soon takes an unexpected turn, and they join forces to take on railroad baron Brockton (Walter Barnes).

With its stirring music by legendary composer Ennio Morricone and politically charged screenplay by Sergio Donati (Once Upon a Time in the West) and Franco Solinas (The Battle of Algiers), The Big Gundown has earned its reputation as one of the greatest and most influential Italian westerns.

Extras "INDICATOR TWO-DISC STANDARD EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES

2K restorations

Three presentations of the feature film: La resa dei conti (111 min): the original Italian version with both Italian and English audio tracks, the extended American version (95 min) with scenes added for television broadcast, and the original American version (89 min) Original audio in monop>

Audio commentary with authors and film experts Barry Forshaw and Kim Newman on the Italian theatrical version (2023)

Audio commentary with film historians C Courtney Joyner and Henry Parke on the extended American version (2013)

Spaghetti Western Memories (2012, 52 min): documentary with director Sergio Sollima and actor Tomas Milian revisiting his highly acclaimed western

Tomas Milian: Acting on Instinct (2013, 30 min): the genre film star recalls The Big Gundown and reveals some of his acting secrets

Prelude to a Gundown (2023, 10 min): Author and musician Stephen Thrower discusses Sollima's career and the film's cast and crew. Thrower explores the themes and politics of The Big Gundown. A Settling of Accounts (2023, 23 min): Austin Fisher, author of Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western: Politics, Violence and Popular Italian Cinema, places the film in the broader context of the genre. American original trailers for cinemas. Italian original trailer for cinema release. TV feature.p>

Image galleries: stills from the production and promotional material

New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

New and improved English translation subtitles for the Italian audio track

Running time: 111/95/89 min