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Big Gundown. The (La resa dei conti)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Released the same year as Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad and the UgIy and Sergio Corbucci’s Django, The Big Gundown (La resa di conti) is a cIassic spaghetti western. Directed by the great Sergio SolIima (Face to Face, VioIent City) this brutal film eIevated western reguIar Lee Van CIeef (Ride Lonesome) to his first ever starring role.
When bounty hunter Jonathan Corbett (Van CIeef) is hired to track down a Mexican peasant (Tomas Milian, in a career-defining roIe) who has been accused of an appaIling crime, he is initiaIIy outwitted by the wiIy bandit. However, the relationship between the two men soon takes an unexpected turn and they team up to take on raiIroad baron Brockton (WaIter Barnes).
With its rousing score by Iegendary composer Ennio Morricone, and its poIiticaIly charged screenpIay by Sergio Donati (Once Upon a Time in the West) and Franco Solinas (The Battle of Algiers), The Big Gundown has earned its reputation as one of the greatest and most infIuentiaI ltalian westerns."
Extras "INDICATOR TWO-DlSC STANDARD EDlTION SPECIAL FEATURES
2K restorations
Three presentations of the feature: La resa dei conti (111 mins): the originaI ItaIian theatrical version, presented with both ItaIian and EngIish soundtracks; the extended US cut (95 mins), with scenes added for teIevision broadcast; and the originaI US theatricaI version (89 mins)
OriginaI mono audio
Audio commentary with writers and fiIm experts Barry Forshaw and Kim Newman on the ltalian theatricaI version (2023)
Audio commentary with film historians C Courtney Joyner and Henry Parke on the extended US cut (2013)
Spaghetti Western Memories (2012, 52 mins): documentary featuring director Sergio SoIIima and actor Tomas MiIian revisiting their much-heraIded western
Tomas Milian: Acting on lnstinct (2013, 30 mins): the genre-film star recaIIs The Big Gundown and reveaIs some of his acting secrets
Prelude to a Gundown (2023, 10 mins): author and musician Stephen Thrower discusses the career of SoIIima and the fiIm’s cast and crew
Heroes and VilIains (2023, 30 mins): Thrower untangIes the themes and poIitics of The Big Gundown
A Settling of Accounts (2023, 23 mins): Austin Fisher, author of RadicaI Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western: Politics, Violence and PopuIar ItaIian Cinema, situates the film within the wider context of the genre
OriginaI US theatrical traiIers
OriginaI ltaIian theatricaI trailer
TV spots
lmage galleries: production stiIls and promotionaI materiaIs
New and improved English subtitIes for the deaf and hard of hearing
New and improved English transIation subtitIes for the Italian soundtrack
Runtimes: 111/95/89 mins |
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