Spaghetti Western Collection

I have watched them all, and each one all the way through although it was hard with a few of them but the good outnumber the bad and considering the price... If you are interested in a particular title maybe my thoughts on them below will help. I made the notes as I went but there may possibly still be mistakes. If you find some errors comment them to help others.3 Bullets For Ringo (1966) Color / Gordon Mitchell - Wide Screen but too thin Aspect Ratio, Average Picture Quality and Sound, horribly fake looking gunfights and completely bloodless, at best a 2 Star Movie. This is where the theme played on the menu of every disc is from.And God Said To Cain (1970) Color / Klaus Kinski - Widescreen, Bad Picture Quality and so dark most of the action detail is lost, good sound, predictable end, but interesting enough that I would like to see a sharp brighter version if available, 2 stars as isApache Blood (1972) Color / Ray Danton - Cropped Full Screen, Correct Aspect Ratio but Picture Fuzzy. Entertaining most of the way but a really random ending to it. At most a 2 Star Movie.Ben And Charlie (1972) Color / Giuliano Gemma - Widescreen, Good Picture Quality, Color, and Sound, Undecided if this is a 2 or 3 star, Silly in places but entertaining mostlyBetween God, The Devil & A Winchester (1968) Color / Richard Harrison - Widescreen, Average or below Picture Quality, Good Sound, 3 star movie.Beyond The Law (1968) Color / Lee Van Cleef - Theatrical Widescreen, Sharp Picture Quality, Great Color and Sound, Possibly the best picture here, 5 Star Movie.Boot Hill (1969) Color / Terence Hill - Widescreen, Mostly Correct Aspect Ratio, but bad picture quality, looks to be cropped at times, nonsensical plot if there is a plot at all, maybe at best a 2 Star Movie.Challenge To White Fang (1974) Color / Franco Nero - Widescreen, Good Sound, Correct Aspect Ratio, but very fuzzy picture, scenery would be worth viewing if not for the picture quality. 2 Star Movie.China 9, Liberty 37 (1978) Color / Warren Oates - Full Screen, Below Average Picture Quality, sound bad enough that much of the dialogue is unintelligible, correct aspect ratio, amazingly it is incomplete, stopping just when it finally starts to begin to get interesting, appears to be a 2 star movie but unknown as I could not see the ending.Dead For A Dollar (1968) Color / George Hilton - Widescreen, Good Sound, Correct Aspect Ratio, but very fuzzy picture, washed out colors too. 2 Star Movie.Dead Men Don't Make Shadows (1970) Color / Hunt Powers - Widescreen, Good Sound, Correct Aspect Ratio, Sharp picture, good colors too, 4 Star movie due to being interesting all the way to the end.Death Rides A Horse (1969) Color / Lee Van Cleef - Full Screen, Good Picture Quality, Good Sound, Correct Aspect Ratio, Very interesting storyline all the way through, Soundtrack By Morricone, 5 Star MovieThe Deserter (1971) Color / Chuck Connors, also Richard Crenna, Ricardo Montalban, John Huston, and Slim Pickens, a Dino De Laurentiis film, unfortunately full-screen with below average color and picture quality. Sound and aspect ratio are fine, 3 star movie.Django Kills (1967) Color / George Eastman listed incorrectly, Thomas Milian is Django. Theatrical Widescreen, proper aspect ratio, Reasonable picture quality, bad night scenes, good sound and colors, during 2 short intervals there are subtitles only and no English dub, apparently these 2 sequences were cut from the US release due to violence and restored back into the film for this collection, but never had an English dub made. 3 Star Movie.Django Vs Sartana (1970) Color / Fabio Testi and Hunt Powers - Title screen says One Damned Day at Dawn... Django meets Sartana - Widescreen, sharp picture and good sound, proper aspect ratio, slightly faded colors, 2 star movieFighting Fists Of Shanghai Joe (1972) Color / Klaus Kinski - Full Screen, Good Picture Quality, Good Sound, Correct Aspect Ratio Most Of The Time But swaps in a couple of places to where the widescreen is squished to full screen making everything too thin, This Is Really A Martial Arts Movie Set In The West, If You Think Kato Was Unbelievable In Green Hornet This Is Even More Over The Top Than That, 1 Star MovieFind A Place To Die (1968) Color / Jeffrey Hunter - Widescreen, Very good color and sound, proper aspect ratio, 2 star movieFistful Of Lead (1970) Color / George Hilton - A Sartana Series Movie under a different title. Another collection has this movie under the title, Sartana’s Here, Trade Your Pistol For A Coffin. You can tell in the opening credits where a different title has been spliced into it. Full Screen, Mostly Correct Aspect Ratio, A few spots are too thin as when the credits show. A bit below average picture quality, Good Sound, Does keep you interested, but both unbelieveability and in the end predictability relegate this to 2 stars.Four Of The Apocalypse (1975) Color / Fabio Testi - Full Screen, Correct Aspect Ratio, Colors washed out, good sound, Below Average Picture Quality. Keeps Your Interest after lackluster start, bloodier than most, 4 star movie.Four Rode Out (1969) Color / Leslie Nielsen - Music Surprisingly By Janis Ian. Also Stars Pernell Roberts, Full Screen, Correct Aspect Ratio, Good Color And Sound, Interesting For The Most Part But A Somewhat Predictable Ending, Only A Bit Better Than A 2 Star Movie.Grand Duel (1973) Color / Lee Van Cleef - Theatrical Widescreen, Excellent Picture Quality, Some Really Good Camera Work And Good Sound But On A 2 Star Movie.The Great Adventure (1975) Color / Jack Palance - and also surprisingly, Joan Collins. Widescreen, good sound, Picture Quality ranges from good to excellent, Some Good Camera Work and scenery, 2 Star Movie.Hate Thy Neighbor (1968) Color / George Eastman - Full Screen, Correct Aspect Ratio, Good Picture Quality and Sound, 3 star movieHis Name Was King (1971) Color / Richard Harrison - Full Screen, Bad Picture Quality, Very Fuzzy, Reasonably Good Sound, Correct Aspect Ratio, 3 Star Movie.If You Meet Sartana Pray For Death (1968) Color / Gianni Garko - Full Screen, Good Picture Quality, Good Sound, Correct Aspect Ratio, 3 Star Movie.It Can Be Done Amigo (1973) Color / Jack Palance - Full screen, correct aspect ratio, grainy picture and the color goes bad about 2/3 of the way through, it is still color but the colors are wrong. Story is really bad and ends unexpectedly, makes you almost think they just gave up on it, which they should. 1 star movie.Jesse And Lester (1972) Color / Richard Harrison - Full Screen, Correct Aspect Ratio, Terrible Picture Quality, almost black and white in places, good sound though. Mostly a comedy but not funny, generous to give it 2 stars, gets better as it goes for what that is worth.Johnny Yuma (1966) Color / Mark Damon - Widescreen, Very good picture quality and sound, proper aspect ratio, 3 Star Movie.Keoma, The Avenger (1976) Color / Franco Nero - Widescreen, proper aspect ratio, Reasonable picture quality and sound but washed out colors, 2 Star Movie.Kid Vengeance (1975) Color / Lee Van Cleef - also Leif Garrett and Jim Brown, Full-Screen, correct aspect ratio, decent sound, color, and picture quality, 2 star movie, end credits title it Vendetta.Man From Nowhere (1966) Color / Giulianno Gemma - Theatrical Widescreen, Very Good Picture Quality And Sound, 4 Star Movie.The Manhunt (1984) Color / Ernest Borgine - Full Screen, Good picture quality, color and sound, but this is not a western, it is set in the mid-70’s by the look of the cars used in the film. Not very good, 1 starMannaja, A Man Called Blade (1977) Color / Maurizio Merli - Theatrical Widescreen, Very Good Picture Quality and sound, 3 Star Movie.Minnesota Clay (1965) Color / Cameron Mitchell - Widescreen, sharp picture (mostly), great color and sound, 2 star movie.The Price Of Power (1969) Color / Giuliano Gemma - Widescreen, correct aspect ratio, Good Picture Quality And Sound, 3 Star Movie.Run, Man, Run (1968) Color / Thomas Milian - Widescreen, proper aspect ratio, sharp picture, good color, and sound. Also Donal O'Brien as the gunslinger and John Ireland also appears, 4 starsThe Strangers Gundown (1969) Color / Anthony Steffen - Widescreen, proper aspect ratio, good picture, color, and sound. Another Django movie apparently, 2 stars due to predictabilitySundance And The Kid (1975) Color / John Wade (Sundance Cassidy And Butch The Kid) - Full Screen, Correct Aspect Ratio, Pretty Good Color, Good Sound, more of a comedy than anything else but I like movies with happy endings and a nice train wreck, 3 starsThey Call Him Cemetery (1971) Color / Gianni Garko - Theatrical Widescreen, Average Picture Quality, Good Sound, Too Dark In Places, 3 Star Movie, Keep Watching It Gets Better As It Goes.This Man Can't Die (1973) Color / Guy Madison - Excellent Full-Screen, Maybe This Was Made For TV, No Sign Of Cropping And Has The Correct Aspect Ratio, Very Good Color And Sound, 3 Star MovieTrinity And Sartana (1972) Color / Robert Widmark - Badly Cropped Full Screen, Correct Aspect Ratio But Titles And Action Sometimes Are Off-Screen, Also Picture Less Than Sharp. This almost qualifies as a comedy but still is sort of entertaining in a random way. 2 Star Movie.The Unholy Four (1970) Color / Leonard Mann - Full-Screen, very sharp picture, good color, and sound, wrong aspect ratio, too thin, rather dreary until the ending gunfight, 2 Star MovieWhite Comanche (1968) Color / William Shatner - Full-Screen, Correct Aspect Ratio, Sharp Picture, Very Good Color and Sound, not as bad as its rap once you get past Shatner’s overacting and that in appearance he is completely unbelievable as an Indian, 3 starsWhite Fang The Hunter (1975) Color / Robert Wood - Cropped Full-Screen, Correct Aspect Ratio but very bad picture quality and color, Sound is OK and music pretty good, the recurring theme music is stuck in my head. Another one with great background scenery you can’t enjoy due to picture quality. 2 star movie

Anyone wishing to purchase the "Spaghetti Western Collection" should probably prepare themselves for both a nostalgic and a spiritual experience. Nostalgic we will get to in a minute. But "spiritual" in the sense that, from beginning to end, as negative emotions flood over you and threaten to overwhelm your rational judgment,and lead to violence, you must keep repeating the mantra "44 movies, eleven double sided discs, $11.49... 44 movies, eleven double sided discs, $11.49... 44 movies, eleven double sided discs, $11.49..." until the madness passes.Nostalgic? On many levels. These are all interesting films, at the very least on a curiosity level. Many of them are quite original as low budget productions. Some of them raise the word "ludicrous" to the level of a positive adjective. They are a blast from the past, and so is the video quality.What is the video quality like? Good question. For such a wide range of films there are a number of answers. It's best to answer by asking you questions about your own video past.* Do you remember when video first came on the scene in the 80s and you started making home videos and then didn't know what to do with all your old Super-8 home films, and so you took all the little reels of film down to the local camera shop and had them transferred on to VHS tape, and then when DVDs came out you had someone else digitize the VHS tapes into DVD discs and then when YouTube happened you ripped the DVDs of your VHSes of your Super-8 films and compressed them and uploaded them? Sort of like that.* Do you remember when you used to have to stay up really late at night in the 70s and 80s to catch one of these films on late night TV, and you wound up watching it on some distant UHF station on your old RCA 19" tube TV with bad convergence adjustment and just the tiny little speaker in front? Sort of like that.* Do you remember what it was like to go to a drive-in theater and watch a scratchy film with bad dubbing on a huge far away screen through a fogged up front window while the sound came out of a metal box you had clamped onto your partially rolled down window while you tried to make out with your girlfriend and keep one eye on the screen at the same time? Sort of like that.* Do you recollect, more recently, the various modern digital effects that director Robert Rodriguez used to make "Planet Terror" look like a funky, spit on and ground onto the floor with the heel of a drunk projectionist grindhouse trash classic from the 60s? Sort of like that.In fact, from a quick sample of several discs, I would say there isn't a single film to digital transfer in the whole set. It all appears to be NTSC video originally transferred for VHS tapes, in the VHS era, and the discs may in fact have been ripped from VHS tapes. The sharpest thing, by several miles, on the whole set is the Mill Creek Video logo on the head of each disc, followed by the menu. Oh, and sometime the menus work, and sometimes they don't. And, chapter stops, we don't need no stinkin chapter stops, we ain't got to give you any chapter stops, the beginning and the middle and the end is a chapter stop.At the end of the day these are "historic" films that will send you into an A/V time warp, and answer the questions: "What would a cheap movie on VHS tape look like on my new 60" HDTV LCD home theater screen? What would a transistor radio sound like on my 7.1 super DTS friendly speaker system?"Now you can know.But, I am keeping my set. I find it very soothing to keep repeating "44 movies, eleven double sided discs, $11.49... 44 movies, eleven double sided discs, $11.49... 44 movies, eleven double sided discs, $11.49..."

Alot of very good westerns for your money not perfect but very enjoyable well worth the money i have watched 34 and I've been entertained

Very poor quality. Although generally you get what you pay for. Sound and picture quality was quite poor on a lot of the discs. Box set is cheap as chips for a reason.

great value worth it for django the bastard and django kill

Very good for the money , some films were bad on the quality.

The movies were intertaining