Anyone famous in it? | Franco Nero - best known as Django (1966), he later went on to star in Fulci's White Fang (1973). George Hilton - a popular euro-cult star who later played in many comedy Westerns and Giallo films. |
Directed by anyone interesting? |
Lucio Fulci - now infamous for his gory horror films Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979) and The Beyond (1980), he made a number of interesting films before that, including the sexy comedy The Senator Likes Women (1972) |
Anyone else involved? | The script was written by Ferdinando de Leo who also penned the genre comedy Up the MacGregors (1967) |
Any gore/violence? | Quite a lot of blood, a vicious whipping scene. |
Any sex? | No |
Who is it for? |
One for Fulci and Spaghetti Western fans, but both will find better places to start. |
Visuals | Ratio - 2.35:1. Anamorphically Enhanced. Colour A below average print with some very noticable fading and a lack of contrast - some scenes look sepia tinted. Fortunately print damage is minimal, and the film is generally watchable. The transfer is good with no digital artifacting. |
Audio | Italian 5.1 remix and original mono. English mono. The Italian audio sounds sharper, English is a little muffled with some hisses and pops, but dialogue comes through fine. |
Subtitles | Italian. |
Extras | The disc features:
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Region | Region 2 - PAL |
Other regions? | The
only other official release is an R2 Japanese disc, although this is
non-anamorphic and has no extras, but might have better picture
quality. German and American released bootlegs have generally poorer
image quality. |
Cuts? | Believed to be fully uncut. Print has Italian credits. Note: the presence of "Second Edition" on the title card, has lead some to suggest that this is a re-edit of the film, although there is no confirmation of this, and it might just relate to the Italian dub track. |