Savage Guns: Four Classic Westerns Vol. 3 (Blu-ray Standard Edition) (Arrow Video) [UK]

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Release date: March 24, 2025
Purchase links: Arrow Films - Amazon UK - Zavvi - HMV
Price: TBA (Arrow Films) - £69.99 (Amazon) - £59.99 (Zavvi - HMV)

 

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4-DISC SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

• 2K restorations of all four films from the original 35mm camera negatives
• High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentations of all four films
• Italian and English front and end titles on all four films
• Restored original lossless mono Italian and English soundtracks on all four films
• English subtitles for the Italian soundtracks
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtracks
• Introductions to each film by journalist and critic Fabio Melelli
• Reversible sleeves featuring original artwork and a slipcover featuring newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx

DISC 1 – I WANT HIM DEAD

• Audio commentary by critics Adrian J. Smith and David Flint
• The Man Who Hated Violence – interview with director Paolo Bianchini
• Cut and Shot – interview with editor Eugenio Alabiso
• Nico Unchained – archival interview with composer Nico Fidenco
• English theatrical trailer
• Image 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 archival print and presented in both Italian and a hybrid English/Italian mix*
• Audio commentary by critics Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson
• Interview with actor Robert Woods
• An in-depth appreciation of the soundtrack and its composer, Alessandro Alessandroni, by musician and disc collector Lovely Jon

DISC 3 – WRATH OF THE WIND

• Alternate, 106-minute Spanish-language version of the film, featuring additional and extended scenes not found in the Italian or English versions
• Audio commentary by author and critic Howard Hughes
• The Days of Wrath – interview with camera operator Roberto D’Ettorre Piazzoli
• They Call It... Red Cemetery! – a short film from 2022 by filmmaker Francisco Lacerda, serving as a love letter to the spaghetti western genre
• Alternate “Revenge of Trinity” opening titles
• Image gallery

DISC 4 – THE FOUR OF THE APOCALYPSE

• Audio commentary by author and producer Kat Ellinger
• It Takes Four – previously unreleased interview with production manager Roberto Sbarigia
• In-depth appreciation of the film by author, critic and Lucio Fulci scholar Stephen Thrower
• In-depth appreciation of the soundtrack and its composers, Franco Bixio, Fabio Frizzi and Vince Tempera, by musician and disc collector Lovely Jon
• Restored Theatrical trailer
• Image gallery

* For some scenes and dialogue lines in the long version, the Italian audio is either lost or was never produced. These are presented in Spanish with English subtitles.