Clint Eastwood s Man with No Name spawned imitations, variations and shameless rip-offs keen to emulate his success at the box office. Within months of A Fistful of Dollars release, Giuliano Gemma was playing Ringo, who was then followed by Franco Nero s Django, Tony Anthony s The Stranger and Gianni Garko s Sartana each providing their own twist on the Eastwood antihero, and each of them then subject to their own spate of unofficial sequels, spoofs and cash-ins.
Sartana tapped into more than just his Spaghetti Western predecessors a mysterious figure, he has a spectral quality, aided by his Count Dracula-like cloak which also nods towards comic strip figure Mandrake the Magician, with whom he shares a penchant for card tricks. He takes pride in his appearance unlike the Eastwood s dusty wanderer or Nero s mud-caked drifter. And there s a dose of James Bond too in his fondness for gadgetry and the droll sense of humour.
Unsurprisingly, this unique figure in the genre was treated to four official follow-ups. The Complete Sartana collects all five films, presented here in brand-new restorations: If You Meet Sartana... Pray for Your Death, I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death, Have a Good Funeral My Friend... Sartana Will Pay, Light the Fuse... Sartana Is Coming, and Sartana s Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin, in which George Hilton replaced Garko in the lead role.
SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
- Brand-new 2K restoration of If You Meet Sartana... Pray for Your Death from original film materials, carried out by Arrow Films exclusively for this release
- Brand-new 2K restorations of I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death, Sartana s Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin, Have a Good Funeral My Friend... Sartana Will Pay and Light the Fuse... Sartana Is Coming from original camera negatives, carried out by Arrow Films exclusively for this release
- Original Italian and English soundtracks on all five films
- Uncompressed mono 1.0 PCM audio
- Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian soundtracks
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtracks
- Audio commentary on If You Meet Sartana... Pray for Your Death by filmmaker Mike Siegel
- Audio commentaries on I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death and Have a Good Funeral My Friend... Sartana Will Pay by Spaghetti Western experts C. Courtney Joyner and Henry Parke
- Gianfranco Parolini on If You Meet Sartana... Pray for Your Death, a brand-new interview with the writer-director
- Light the Fuse: Sartana s Casting, a video essay guide to many familiar faces in the Sartana films by Jonathan Bygraves
- Sal Borgese on I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death and Light the Fuse... Sartana Is Coming, two brand-new interviews with the actor
- Ernesto Gastaldi on I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death and Light the Fuse... Sartana Is Coming, two brand-new interviews with the writer
- Sartana Shoots First, a brand-new interview with George Hilton on Sartana s Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin
- Erika Blanc on Sartana s Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin, a brand-new interview with the actor - Tony Askin on Sartana s Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin, a brand-new interview with the actor - Roberto Dell Acqua on Have a Good Funeral My Friend... Sartana Will Pay, a brand-new interview with the actor
- Sartana Lives, an archive featurette on Light the Fuse... Sartana Is Coming featuring interviews with actor Gianni Garko and director Giuliano Carnimeo
- Galleries of original promotional images
from the Mike Siegel Archive for all five films
- Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matthew Griffin
5 Discs
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