Box set featuring 4 classic spaghetti westerns including "$10,000 Blood Money", "Vengeance is Mine", "Find a Place to Die" & "Matalo! (Kill Him)".
In the mid-1960s, the success of Sergio Leone's "Dollars" trilogy gave rise to an explosion of similar productions. Filmmakers sought to capitalize on this new, uniquely Italian take on the western, characterized by their deeply cynical outlook, morally compromised antiheroes and savage violence. This specially curated selection gathers four outstanding examples of the genre, all centered around the theme of blood money. In Romolo Guerrieri's $10,000 Blood Money, Gianni Garko - best known for his portrayal of supernatural gunslinger Sartana - takes on the part of another beloved western antihero, Django, who is on the trail of bandit Manuel Vasquez (Claudio Camaso). But what started as a job for hire soon turns personal, with Django swearing vengeance against the unscrupulous outlaw. Then, in the film's spiritual successor, Giovanni Fago's Vengeance is Mine (1967; a.k.a. $100,000 for a Killing), Garko and Camaso once again star as estranged half-brothers - one a Confederate soldier now riding with renegade outlaws, the other a bounty hunter tasked with bringing him in alive. Next, in Giuliano Carnimeo's Find a Place to Die, Jeffrey Hunter plays Joe Collins, a disgraced former soldier who assembles a ragtag band of scoundrels. They are lured into helping a woman to rescue her prospector husband, who is trapped at their gold mine cave-in - though in reality, they have designs on the gold strike themselves. Finally, in Cesare Canevari's psychedelic Matalo! (Kill Him), a band of outlaws, having holed up in a ghost town, set about terrorizing travelers Ray and Bridget - only to get more than they bargained for when Ray fights back, armed only with a bag full of boomerangs. Featuring a wealth of key Euro-cult talent both behind and in front of the camera, Arrow Films proudly presents these four classic westerns in sparkling High Definition restorations alongside a plethora of bonus materials.
Bonus Materials
- SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations of all four films
- 2K restorations of all four films from the original 35mm camera negatives by Arrow Films
- Original Italian and English front and end titles
- Restored lossless original Italian and English soundtracks
- English subtitles for the Italian soundtracks
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtracks
- Introductions to each film by journalist and critic Fabio Melelli
- Galleries for all four films
- Reversible sleeves featuring original artwork and a slipcover featuring newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx
- DISC 1 – $10,000 BLOOD MONEY
- Audio commentary by film historian Lee Broughton
- Tears of Django – featurette with archival interviews with director Romolo Guerrieri and actor Gianni Garko
- The Producer Who Didn’t Like Western Movies – interview with producer Mino Loy
- How the West Was Won – interview with screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi
- Theatrical trailer
- DISC 2 – VENGEANCE IS MINE
- Audio commentary by critic Adrian J. Smith and David Flint
- Cain and Abel – featurette with archival interviews with actor Gianni Garko and screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi
- In Conversation with Nora Orlandi – archival interview with the film’s iconic composer
- Movie After Movie – interview with producer Mino Loy
- Theatrical trailer
- DISC 3 – FIND A PLACE TO DIE
- Audio commentary by author and critic Howard Hughes
- Sons of Leone – archival interview with director Giuliano Carnimeo
- Traditional Figure – in-depth appreciation of the soundtrack and its composer, Gianni Ferrio, by musician and disc collector Lovely Jon
- DISC 4 – MATALO! (KILL HIM)
- Audio commentary by critics Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson
- A Milanese Story – in-depth interview with filmmaker Davide Pulici, discussing the career of Matalo! director Cesare Canevari
- Untold Icon – in-depth appreciation of the soundtrack and its composer, Mario Migliardi, by musician and disc collector Lovely Jon
- Theatrical trailer
