The Italian company MHE has just released The Good, the Bad and the Ugly on both DVD and Blu-Ray. The DVD is a special edition with small book/let included while that is missing from the Blu-Ray edition. MHE has released the movie previously couple of years ago as a very simple edition which left hoping for more. As far as I can tell this is from a new restoration of some sort… at least I hope so. The MGM Blu-Rays aren’t as good as I hoped they would be, so I’m really hoping this will be better.
Unfortunately according to Kultmedia and Videociak the discs have only one Italian track and nothing more. I realize DVD.it claims the Blu-Ray to have English audio but they also claim the aspect ratio to be 1.78:1 which can’t be correct so…
Anyways, I should have the discs (yes, both…) early next week and hopefully can put up some kind of comparison soon after that.
Sergio Leone’s Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo aka The Good, the Bad and the Ugly has finally been released on Blu-Ray. French disc has been available for over a week now and the German disc has just been released. I suspect they are both exactly the same and the US disc which will be released on 12th of May will most likely be the same. DVDBeaver has screenshots from the French disc and unfortunately it doesn’t look as good as I hoped it would be. Still captures won’t tell everything, but…
I hope this will get a release in Italy with a different transfer (other countries will probably use this same MGM transfer?).
And where are mono soundtracks?
Anyways, you can buy the disc from either Amazon.fr
or Amazon.de
. Or pre-order it from Amazon.com
It seems DVD Drive-In is the first(?) site to publish a review of the new Navajo Joe disc. Anamorphic 2.35:1 image with English audio track. Three subtitles (English, Spanish, French) are provided. No extras.
Read the review here http://www.dvddrive-in.com/reviews/n-s/navajojoe66.htm
The official release date is actually 13th of May, but DVDPacific has shipped my pre-order today. Don’t know if you can find the disc from any stores yet, but if you do get it, please let me know about the quality and aspect ratios (few good screenshots wouldn’t hurt either 
).
Wild East’s website has A Long Ride From Hell up as their next release. No release date is given as usual.
Theatrical version in its original aspect ratio: 1:85. English language
Interview with Mimmo Palmero aka Dick Palmer
It also seems their Kill Them All And Come Back Alone disc is finally available.
Order directly from Wild East or (pre)order from Amazon.com
It’ll probably be a while before I get my hands on it, so whenever someone manages to get the disc, I’d really appreciate some comments about the disc please. 
Just noticed the next spaghetti western release from the German company NEW will be Reverendo Colt (1971). According to tele movie shop the release will come with three different cover options (one limited) and will include English audio. Release date 31.03.2008.
Another news is some sort of spaghetti book called Spagetti-Heroes – Django – Sartana – Ringo listed at DTM.at. 4 different cover options (all limited) and the book comes with a DVD which seems to have the films A Gun for One Hundred Graves and Vengeance. Don’t know what versions, but I suspect it might be the same disc that X-Rated have released earlier. Release date 31.3.2008.
Great news! According to DVDSavant Sergio Corbucci’s Navajo Joe will be released for Region 1 in 13th of May 2008.
Pre-order it from Amazon.com at a very low price of $9.99.
Now how about that Mercenary?
Hi everyone!
For certain reasons it has been quite quiet in here for a long time, I’m sorry about that and believe me it has bothered me a lot. Hopefully I’ll be able to maintain the site better in the future, we’ll have to wait and see.
Anyways, for the past month I have done some changes (slowly…), basically combining the existing site with a blog software that can also be used as some sort of content management system. Well, currently the old site is almost completely as it were before, only the index, DVD lists and a couple of other pages are loaded from the blog software… others may or may not continue to be exactly as they have always been. So basically for now when you enter most of the disc specification or screenshots pages, everything is as it always were.
Since I have installed the blog software it also means there is a blog now. Which is where you are if you’re reading this. The idea now is that it would be easier for me to write about the updates for the site AND visitors could comment and discuss the releases if they wanted to. I’m not sure if that is a good enough reason for a blog software, but oh well… I could also report SW DVD news here and maybe write something else if I ever feel like it (but I don’t promise anything). There are already couple of very old news posts here from the time I was just messing with the software and trying it out. There were even more (couple of very bad reviews which few unfortunately souls were able to see) but I have made most of them either private or deleted them. 
I’m thinking of redoing the DVD specification pages so that I’ll be able to include them into the search (and one big plus of the software is that it’s automatically very search engine friendly) and also enable comment forms for each of them. Maybe. Unfortunately if I do it it means the addresses for them will change which in turn will break all currently incoming links. So, I’ll have to think about it… Not that there’s many links to my site though, except from the Spaghetti Western Database, but those I can even go and fix myself if needed.
As I’m sure you have already noticed, the fonts for text and links are currently quite small and vary from page to page. I’ll be messing around with them (at least the colors) later but I personally kind of like the size on the new pages right now, at least for the newer wordpress handled pages containing the disc specifications. I do understand the size can be problematic to a lot of people so perhaps I should make it bigger?
As a quick fix at least users of Firefox can change the size of the font themselves for the entire site with a mouse that has a scroll wheel. Just press and hold CTRL-button and roll the wheel up or down to change the font size. It should change everything from the regular text to links to menus. IE seems to be more strict and doesn’t change everything but the same trick can be used with it as well.
Oh and there are lots of emails you have sent me which I haven’t answered and I’m truly sorry about that. I’ll try going through them soon and answering anything I think still requires an answer (as some of them are very old). There’s several thousands of spam messages to go through as well, so it’ll take some time.
It was just reported at SWWB that the Koch Media’s excellent Sergio Sollima Italo Western DVD Box is now sold out. I guess meaning all the remaining boxes are now at various stores and once the stocks are out there won’t be new ones coming in.
So if you were thinking of ordering the box now would be a good time to do it. Not sure if Amazon.de will be able to deliver them anymore (it says 5-7 days currently) but there are some available from the marketplace. Or you could order one from Xploitedcinema which still has some in stock.
Enzo G. Castellari’s Ammazzali tutti e torna solo / Kill Them All and Come Back Alone (1968) will soon have a DVD release in Germany by the Eyecatcher Movies, under the title ‘Töte alle und kehr allein zurück’. It comes with three different covers (one limited). According to DTM.at the release date is 22nd February while the tele-movie-shop.de says 15th of February.
I noticed DTM says there’s only German audio on the disc, but no other sites mention anything and the DVD covers (even at DTM) are empty in regards of audio/subtitles.
So if anyone knows of the audio/subtitle options, please let me know.
The movie is also going to be released soon (no exact date has been given) in R1 by Wild East.
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