Arrow Video Satisfies Your Appetite for Spaghetti Westerns with THE COMPLETE SARTANA Collection!

ON JULY 3RD, ARROW VIDEO GATHERS THE FIVE ORIGINAL SARTANA FILMS TOGETHER IN ONE BEAUTIFUL, LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY COLLECTION!

ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST was the film that got me hooked on Spaghetti Westerns. Soon after that I watched Sergio Leone's MAN WITH NO NAME TRILOGY, THE SABATA TRILOGY, DJANGO, the TRINITY films (featuring Terrence Hill and Bud Court), and various others from the sub-genre. But I still have yet to watch a single Sartana flick, which makes this set a definite must-own for yours truly! But if you want it, you better act fast because this set is limited to 2,500 copies!

About The Complete Sartana: Clint Eastwood’s Man with No Name spawned imitations, variations and shameless rip-offs keen to emulate his success at the box office. Within months of A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS’ release, Giuliano Gemma was playing RINGO, who was then followed by Franco Nero’s DJANGO, Tony Anthony’s THE STRANGER, and Gianni Garko’s SARTANA – each providing their own twist on the Eastwood antihero, and each of them then subject to their own spate of unofficial sequels, spoofs and cash-ins.

Sartana tapped into more than just his Spaghetti Western predecessors – a mysterious figure, he has a spectral quality, aided by his Count Dracula-like cloak which also nods towards comic strip figure Mandrake the Magician, with whom he shares he shares a penchant for card tricks. He takes pride in his appearance unlike the Eastwood’s dusty wanderer or Nero’s mud-caked drifter. And there’s a dose of James Bond too in his fondness for gadgetry and the droll sense of humor.

Unsurprisingly, this unique figure in the genre was treated to four official follow-ups. THE COMPLETE SARTANA collects all five films, presented here in brand-new restorations: IF YOU MEET SARTANA... PRAY FOR YOUR DEATH, I AM SARTANA YOUR ANGEL OF DEATH, HAVE A GOOD FUNERAL MY FRIEND... SARTANA WILL PAY, LIGHT THE FUSE... SARTANA IS COMING, and SARTANA'S HERE... TRADE YOUR PISTOL FOR A COFFIN, in which George Hilton replaced Garko in the lead role.


Disc Specs:
Not Rated | Color | 466 minutes (total run-time of all five films) | Region A
Video - 1080p Widescreen (2.35:1)
Audio - Uncompressed mono 1.0 PCM audio (English & Italian)

Extras:

• NEW! 2K restoration of all five films, carried out by Arrow Films exclusively for this release!
• Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack!
• Audio commentary on If You Meet Sartana… Pray for Your Death by filmmaker Mike Siegel! 
• Audio commentaries on I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death and Have a Good Funeral My Friend… Sartana Will Pay by Spaghetti Western experts C. Courtney Joyner and Henry Parke!
• NEW! Gianfranco Parolini on If You Meet Sartana… Pray for Your Death - An all-new interview with the film's writer-director!
• NEW! Fabbio Piccioni on If You Meet Sartana… Pray for Your Death - A brand-new interview with the film's writer!
• NEW! Sal Borgese on I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death and Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming - Two brand-new interviews with the actor!
• NEW! Ernesto Gastaldi on I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death and Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming - Two brand-new interviews with the writer! 
• NEW! Roberto Dell’Acqua on Have a Good Funeral My Friend… Sartana Will Pay - A brand-new interview with the actor! 
• Sartana Lives - An archival featurette on Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming featuring interviews with actor Gianni Garko and director Giuliano Carnimeo! 
• NEW! Sartana Shoots First - A brand-new interview with George Hilton on Sartana’s Here… Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin! 
• NEW! Erika Blanc on Sartana’s Here… Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin - A brand-new interview with the actor!
• NEW! Tony Askin on Sartana’s Here… Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin - A brand-new interview with the actor!
• NEW! Video essay on the major actors and supporting players in the official Sartana films!
• Galleries of original promotional images from the Mike Siegal Archive for all five films!
• Limited edition packaging with reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matthew Griffin!
• Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the films by Roberto Curti and an extensive Spaghetti Western timeline by Howard Hughes!

Arrow's THE COMPLETE SARTANA will be available everywhere Blu-ray discs are sold on Tuesday, July 3rd, and will cost between $63 - $70. Order yourself a limited edition set right now (or forever hold your peace) from AMAZON, BULLMOOSE, or DIABOLIK DVD!

THE GREAT SILENCE Gets a 2K Restoration for Its 50th Anniversary! Own it on DVD & Blu-ray on June 5th!

SERGIO CORBUCCI'S SPAGHETTI WESTERN MASTERPIECE COMES TO DVD & BLU-RAY IN A MUST-OWN 50TH ANNIVERSARY RELEASE!

To be perfectly honest Vault Dwellers, the only Sergio Corbucci films I've ever laid eyes on are DJANGO and NAVAJO JOE. I must correct this injustice, and it seems to me that the most logical step is to watch THE GREAT SILENCE, which debuted in theaters back in 1968! This tale of cruel bounty hunters and a silent gunslinging hero was restored in 2K and features some great special features!

Synopsis: On an unforgiving, snow-swept frontier, a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters, led by the vicious Loco (Klaus Kinski, NOSFERATU, THE VAMPYRE) prey on a band of persecuted outlaws who have taken to the hills. As the price on each head is collected one-by-one, only a mute gunslinger named Silence (Jean-Louis Trintignant, THE CONFORMIST) stands between the innocent refugees and the greed and corruption that the bounty hunters represent. But, in this harsh, brutal world, the lines between right and wrong aren't always clear and good doesn't always triumph.

Featuring superb photography and a haunting score from maestro Ennio Morricone, director Sergio Corbucci's (DJANGO, COMPANEROS) bleak, brilliant and violent vision of an immoral, honorless west is widely considered to be among the very best and most influential Euro-Westerns ever made.

Guess we won't have to add this film to our WANTED ON BLU-RAY column.

Disc Specs:
Not Rated | Color | 105 minutes | Region A
Video - 1080p Widescreen (1.85:1)
Audio - Italian & English audio options. (2.0 Mono?)

Extras:

• NEW! 2K Restoration of the film!
• Cox on Corbucci - Filmmaker and author Alex Cox (Repo Man) surveys Sergio Corbucci's career and how The Great Silence fits within the maestro's oeuvre.
• Western, Italian Style - This 1968 documentary on Italian westerns includes prime behind the scenes footage of The Great Silence.
• NEW! Two never-before-seen alternate endings, including the option to play one of the alternate endings with Alex Cox commentary.
• Original theatrical trailer.
• 2018 theatrical trailer.
• NEW! Ending the Silence - A new essay about The Great Silence by film critic Simon Abrams.  

The 50th Anniversary restoration of THE GREAT SILENCE is available on Tuesday, June 5th wherever DVDs and Blu-ray discs are sold! Distributed by Film Movement Classics, the DVD runs between $15 - $23 while the Blu-ray is in the $28 - $35 range! Get your copy now from AMAZON, BULLMOOSE, or DIABOLIK DVD!