Anyone have Any Gun Can Play? I noticed Dvdempire.com had it listed as in-stock this morning and ordered it and it shipped today. Must be a first for VCI to actually make a ship date. Amazon has it listed as a 2-3 week title.

Is the "Wildeast" Boot Hill any good?

I glanced over the "Westerns" section at Best Buy and Sam Goody's this week and couldnt find Any Gun Can Play... Anyone esle have any luck? Enzo G Castellari is one of the great, unheralded Italian b-directors, Blake's Marauders, Go Kill Everybody and Come Back Alone, High Crime, The Violent Breed, House by the Edge of the Lake, Great White, Day of the Cobra, and 1990: The Bronx Warriors.

Also, Amazon has Django Kill... under the wrong release date, have it on backorder. Contacted them about it, treid to tell them it should still be a preorder (and discounted as such) but they said they had it listed as being available in Jan so thats how they were going to list it.

For some reason Amazon has a hard time getting VCI titles recently. I had to cancel my orders for CITY OF THE DEAD and WHITE WARRIOR with them because they list both as:

"Availability: Please note that titles occasionally go out of print or publishers run out of stock. We will notify you within 8 to 10 days if we have trouble obtaining this title."

In the future I will no longer place orders for VCI product through Amazon. Anyway, I've heard a couple of people say they've ordered VCI titles directly from the VCI website www.vcihomevideo.com and recieved their discs WEEKS before street date!

As for DJANGO KILL!, the Hell with Amazon, DDD sells Anchor Bay titles at a steep discount, so I'm gonna wait for them to list it.

And I haven't heard anything about the quality of the BOOT HILL dvd yet...

True, but I have gift certificates at Amazon. 'snif, snif', I wanted to pay nothing. Guess I'll pay nothing on something else.

Anybody know about Big Gundown ? Does anyone have plans to put it on DVD?
Once Upon A Time In The West should be coming out this year. Its listed on Amazon.com but has no release date.

Spaghetti western fans should check out the book
Spaghetti Westerns-the Good, the Bad and the Violent it has info on 558 movies from 1961-1977.

I also recommend the book:

"Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone" by Christopher Frayling.

You can usually pick it up for under $20.

"Something To Do With Death" by Frayling is a must have as is

"Once Upon A Time: The films of Sergio Leone" by Robert Cumbow


Can't wait for Once Upon a Time in The West and Duck You Sucker

Uh oh!... It looks like Anchor Bay has taken DJANGO KILL! off their list of future releases.

www.anchorbayentertainment.com/future

Damn! After reading so much about that title from these threads, it became my most wanted Western...

AAAARRRGGGGHHHH... Man, that really peeves me. I was looking forward to getting it. I think I'll have to fire off an email and see if they'll tell me what went wrong.

Oh yeah, I ordered Cut-Throats Nine. Should arrive by the end of the week. I'll watch it and post a review next week.

Now Michael Felcher is saying DJANGO KILL! will come out under the "Blue Underground" label. Blue Underground is a company that Bill Lustig is involved in which produces extras for other companies releases, and in the future they'll be releasing the genre titles that Anchor Bay has gotten sick of doing.

Where can I find a good review of Four Of The Apocalypse? I wanted to pick this up since its only 12 bucks at Bets Buy but i have been hearing mixed reviews

Yeah, I'm with you. Despite being a huge Euro Horror and Western fan, I dont really like Fulci too much, and approach all his movies with intense trepidation. Opinions of Four Of The Apocalypse vary from brilliant to horrible. Here are some...

http://www.dvdmaniacs.net/forums/sho...p?threadid=764
http://www.insane.nu/kult/fourapoc.htm
http://www.algonet.se/~krig/gunmen.html
http://www.horrordvds.com/vbulletin/...&threadid=3978

The only spaghetti westerns that I currently own are the ones in The Man With No Name trilogy. I've actually always thought of them as Clint Eastwood movies, rather than spaghetti westerns, just because I never thought that much about who directed them. Thanks to this intriguing thread I just ordered Django/Django Strikes Again, A Bullet for the General, and Four of the Apocalypse. I've never seen any of these, but I'm a huge fan of the No Name trilogy, especially The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, so hopefully these'll be enjoyable, too! The biggest risk of the three titles I ordered is probably Four of the Apocalypse, judging by the lukewarm reviews I've read, but I'm actually a pretty big Lucio Fulci fan, so maybe I'll find something to like about it.

Thanks to everyone who posted all the great recommendations in this thread!

well I can answer my own question now-The Four Of The Apocalyspe , in a nutshell, SUCKS!..Watched it last night- a very painful 104 minutes..this one is headed directly to my trade list..Ill stick with the Dollars Trilogy

Well, thats really too bad, because it is a great genre. While Leone was no doubt the A-List director of Spaghetti Westerns (a b-film genre), there were hundreds/thousands of Spaghetti Westerns made, so naturally many will be lackluster of poor. But there are some really worhtwhile films, certainly preferrable with their excess, style, and exploitative content to the mainly stiff, unrealistically noble cowboy westerns the US produced.

and Xytraguptorh. Like we said, have a little trepidation about Django Strikes Back (its basically just a bad, cheap 80's action movie... but, I own it too since it comes in the two-pack) and Four Horsemen which really seems to be one of the biggest "love it or hate it" films I've run across.

Actually Bullet For The General was good and Im thinking of getting the first Django..I guess I wont pick up a lot of thses sight unseen until I can read a solid review on them..

is Companeros worth picking up?

Here's a review from BAMF that I agree with:

"...This is director Sergio Corbucci's best western, and definitely one of the shining moments in the spaghetti western genre - offering great performances by the genre's top actors (Nero & Millan), a killer score by Ennio Morricone, and of course Corbucci's direction**....COMPANEROS approaches its politics with a mixture of light hearted comedy, and over the top action...Jack Palance is at his nuttiest as Nero's arch enemy, a reefer smokin' psycho with a wooden hand and a pet falcon named Marsha. Franco Nero and Tomas Millan both give outstanding performances, and their chemistry together is right on the money..."

DVD contains interviews with Nero,Millan & Morricone.

**His craftsmanship as a director had improved greatly since the (at times) amatuerish DJANGO. The editing & cinematography is impressive as well, In fact the opening 5 minutes is one of my favorite Intros in cinema.

Im also considering The Great Silence too...

..and what exactly is BAMF?

Here is that review I promised. It is still in the preview stage. Good film, definitely belongs in the “B” to “C” grade of Spaghetti Westerns, but it has a very unique plot, and sufficiently quirky direction and performances...


http://dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?...7&___f=preview

BadAzzMoFo!

A movie magazine that can often be found in the same sections as Giant Robo,Cult,Cineflix,etc..

Deke,

Don't consider it, get it! It's a great film. I just wish that the Fantoma disc was an anamorhpic tranfer.

its a pricey one too-i can get the Anchor Bay ones at Best Buy for 12 bucks..the cheapest on The Great Silence is 20 bucks