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.
 
This is the standard edition
As usual the standard editions often go live to pre order with Amazon/Zavvi/HMV before been listed on Arrow Films Store


Note Standard Edition
It does not include the booklet or poster that was included with the limited edition release from 2023