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Tony Arzenta - Blu-ray, 25 mars 2024 (U.K)

Alain Delon stars as efficient and ruthless mob assassin Tony Arzenta. With a young family, Tony wants to leave his life of crime to ensure his young son will not get caught up in the revenge killing that so often accompanies people in his position. But the bosses don't make it easy and Tony finds himself on a bloody mission that takes him across Europe to eradicate his former employers. Delon delivers a haunted performance that is as stoic as the iconic assassin role he played for Jean-Pierre Melville in Le Samourai though firmly within the Italian crime film poliziottesco framework, Tony Arzenta delivers thrilling set-pieces and an emotional core that carries the narrative trajectory to the final nail-biting frame. This underseen crime classic from genre master Duccio Tessari (A Pistol for Ringo, Death Occurred Last Night) features an incredible supporting cast of poliziotteschi regulars including Richard Conte (The Boss), Umberto Orsini (Violent City), Corrado Gaipa (Illustrious Corpses), and many others. Now newly restored it is finally released in the UK for the first time. 

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES

• New restoration, presented on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK
• Uncompressed mono PCM Italian and English audio options
• Archival interview with Alain Delon from 1973 discussing his work as an actor and producer and his future career 
• A new interview with Eurocrime authority Mike Malloy on the film’s place within the poliziottesco canon  
• Select-scene commentary with critic Peter Jilmstad on the incredible supporting cast of the film
• Trailer
• Newly translated English subtitles for Italian audio and English SDH subtitles for English audio
• Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters
• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by scholar Leila Wimmer 
• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

Director: ‎ Duccio Tessari - Actors‏: ‎ Alain Delon, Richard Conte, Umberto Orsini, Corrado Gaipa... - Country: Italy - Year: 1973 - Genre - Thriller - Language: ‎ Italian - Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English - Media Format: ‎ Blu-ray - Run time: ‎ 1 hour and 53 minutes - Release date: ‎ 25 Mar. 2024 - Studio: ‎ Radiance Films

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Savage Guns: Four Classic Westerns Vol 3, 19 décembre 2023 (U.K)

Maniacal outlaws thirsting for blood! Corrupt capitalists profiting from the suffering of the common folk! Desperate people pushed to violent revenge! The Italian western has never been grittier than in this quartet of later-period cult classics, in which the trademark cynicism of the genre escalates into the radical pessimism of the late 1960s / early 1970s world.

In Paolo Bianchini's I Want Him Dead (1968), American actor Craig Hill (The Bloodstained Shadow) stars as an ex-Confederate soldier who vows revenge after his sister is raped and murdered, in so doing setting him on a collision course with a dastardly plot to disrupt peace talks between the North and South. Next, in Edoardo Mulargia's El Puro (1969; a.k.a. The Reward's Yours... The Man's Mine), western icon Robert Woods (My Name is Pecos) gives arguably his greatest performance as a legendary gunfighter forced to emerge from hiding after the bounty hunters on his tail murder the tender-hearted barmaid (Rosalba Neri, Smile Before Death) who offered him a new life.

Then, in Mario Camus' Wrath of the Wind (1970), genre superstar Terence Hill (They Call Me Trinity) shows his darker side as an assassin who finds his conscience when he and his brother (Mario Pardo, Knife of Ice) are hired by a ruthless landholder (Fernando Rey, The French Connection) to kill the leaders of a growing labor movement. Finally, Fabio Testi (What Have You Done to Solange?) and Tomas Milian (Don't Torture a Duckling) star in Lucio Fulci's Four of the Apocalypse (1975), in which a quartet of misfits go from sharing the same jail cell to embarking on a savage odyssey that will lead to torture, rape and cannibalism. Preyed upon by a ruthless bandit, the foursome fight for their lives - until the time comes for revenge.

Four of the Italian western's hardest, cruelest, bloodiest classics erupt from the screen in this feature-packed box set from Arrow Films. Featuring dazzling High Definition restorations and a wealth of brand new bonus materials produced specially for this release, Savage Guns delivers - from both barrels!

 

PRODUCT FEATURES :

 

• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations of all four films
• 2K restorations of all four films from the original 35mm camera negatives, with El Puro newly restored by Arrow Films for this release
• 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
• Brand new introductions to each film by journalist and critic Fabio Melelli
• Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the films by author and critic Howard Hughes
• Fold-out double-sided poster featuring newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx
• Limited edition packaging with reversible sleeves featuring original artwork and a slipcover featuring newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx

 

DISC 1 - I WANT HIM DEAD

• Brand new audio commentary by critics Adrian J. Smith and David Flint
• The Man Who Hated Violence - brand new interview with director Paolo Bianchini
• Cut and Shot - brand new 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 newly created hybrid English/Italian mix*
• Brand new audio commentary by critics Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson
• Brand new interview with actor Robert Woods
• Brand new, 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
• Brand new audio commentary by author and critic Howard Hughes
• The Days of Wrath - brand new 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, newly restored for this release
• Image gallery

DISC 4 - FOUR OF THE APOCALYPSE

• Brand new audio commentary by author and producer Kat Ellinger
• It Takes Four - previously unreleased interview with production manager Roberto Sbarigia
• Brand new, in-depth appreciation of the film by author, critic and Lucio Fulci scholar Stephen Thrower
• Brand new, in-depth appreciation of the soundtrack and its composers, Franco Bixio, Fabio Frizzi and Vince Tempera, by musician and disc collector Lovely Jon
• Newly 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.

 

PRODUCT DETAILS : Run Time: Total: 600 mins approx. / Directors: Paolo Bianchini, Edoardo Mulargia, Mario Camus, Lucio Fulci / Certificate: 18 / Actors: Craig Hill, Robert Woods, Terence Hill, Fabio Testi... / Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1, 2.35:1 / Subtitle Languages: English, English SDH / Theatrical Release Year: 1968 / Main Language: Italian / English, Spanish / Number of Discs: 4 / Region: B / Brand: Arrow Video / Release date: ‎ December 19, 2023

 

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