Mill Creek Entertainment Grand Duel / Keoma (Spaghetti Western Double Feature) [Blu-ray]

Edicion Alemana que contiene dos Spaghetti western. Gran duelo al amanecer con el incombustible Lee van cleff y Keoma con Franco nero.Imagen correcta y sonido de la epoca. (en gran duelo al amanecer hay alguna breve perdida de sonido.sin castellano ni español latino ni subs.

Two great classics of the Spaghetti Westerns!!! Crisp colour and some nice visuals. The action scenes in Keoma are incredible. The stunts are well done.

Impossible de lire ce disque malgré de nombreux essais sur plusieurs appareils je vous déconseille d'acheter ce produit. Cela est décevant.

I bought this when it was under £3, and shipping, but even at it's current £5 I must recommend it. It contains two absolutely solid spaghetti westerns, in pretty good (but budget line) hi-def presentations. Released alongside  Spaghetti Western 2: Last Gun & Four Dollars of [Blu-ray] [2011] [US Import ] (which I also recommend), this one is definitely the one to get. (THIS BLU-RAY IS REGION A LOCKED. Check you can play Region A blu-rays on your player...)It contains two later Spaghetti Westerns - Enzo Castellari's wonderful KEOMA (1976), and Giancarlo Santi's THE GRAND DUEL (1972), aka. Storm Rider or The Big Showdown, not to be confused with the slightly superior  Big Gundown [Blu-ray] [1966] [US Import ], also starring Lee Van Cleef.THE GRAND DUEL is a little more slow and thoughtful than many films in the genre but not by a large margin - director Santi was Sergio Leone's assistant director on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West, and clearly knows how to make this kind of thing work. The black and white flashbacks are total cinema and the staging of the action is always engaging. If you look carefully, Lee Van Cleef appears to be wearing the same wardrobe as Colonel Mortimer in FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE, which makes nice continuity for those of us who like to pretend all spaghetti westerns occupy the same mythological west. Cinematography, music, direction are all top notch and most of acting is good too.KEOMA is unashamed action western fantasy. Franco Nero, who of course played the title role in  Django Newly Re-mastered in HD ALL REGIONS [Blu-ray ], plays the title role again - Keoma is a half-white, half-native who successfully transverses both worlds with compassion and superior marksmanship. Here he's accompanied by Woody Strode (from the incredible opening of ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST and VIGILANTE) as a former slave and friend of Keoma's, and a put-upon prostitute played by the unbelievably gorgeous Olga Karlatos, who we of course remember from the infamous splinter scene in Lucio Fulci's  Zombie [Blu-ray] [1979] [US Import ] and her meatier role in his latter film  Murder Rock [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC) [DVD] [US Import ]. Again, the acting is good, the direction and scripting wonderful, and even if I dislike the Conan-esque re-staging of Jesus' crucifixion on a wagon wheel, you've got to love the stormy, rainy, muddy atmosphere that scene and others around it deliver.Fans of Italian cinema will surely note that one of the evil half-brothers (the one who looks like an Italian Donald Sutherland circa 1978) is dubbed by the same English-speaking voice as Al Cliver in Zombie and all the other Lucio Fulci horror pictures he appeared in.However, if there's one part of this movie I have to be hesitant about it's the music - while I enjoyed the hell out of it, it is definitely the aspect of this movie most likely to raise a chuckle from a modern audience. How to describe it? Well it's fairly easy - imagine a vocal based spaghetti western score composed and sung by a young Kate Bush, who takes up most of the singing duties until what is apparently Arnold Schwarzenegger joins her in a hilarious karaoke duet! I challenge you not to picture that when you hear this music.Both films are presented in their native 2.35:1 cinemascope aspect ratio (that is, black bars at the top and bottom on a widescreen TV) with lossless stereo. The presentation on GRAND DUEL is far, far better than you'd expect for a budget-priced release of such an obscure film - detail is astonishing and if it's not a transfer from the camera negs, you'd never know it. KEOMA is a bit more problematic - it has the same digital scanner noise present on many Italian home releases - both the Blue Underground and UK DJANGO blu-rays, Arrow film's TENEBRAE and CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD, Blue Underground's ZOMBIE disc... However, it never especially bothered me - this is still clearly hi-def, much better than the DVD was, and very watchable. Audio on both is better than you'd expect - it's lossless but remember this is a dub, with not a single location sound recorded. Tinny is the order of the day, except for those wonderful scores.Standard def trailers are the only extras. I highly recommend this disc to the spaghetti western fan - you'll like at least one of the movies, probably both. I may be somewhat controversial here and state I actually like both on par with Corbucci's DJANGO, if not up to the standard of Leone's wonderful films. Spaghetti Western 2: Last Gun & Four Dollars of [Blu-ray] [2011] [US ImportBig Gundown [Blu-ray] [1966] [US ImportDjango Newly Re-mastered in HD ALL REGIONS [Blu-rayZombie [Blu-ray] [1979] [US ImportMurder Rock [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC) [DVD] [US Import

Albeit these titles are rather obscure...buy hey, they are speghetti westerns!! The first volume put out on bluray were rather lacking in terms of story or even acting. This on the other hand contains LEE VAN CLEEF!! The picture quality is much better than the last, sound is spectacular, and LEE VAN CLEEF!!If you do buy the set be sure to watch the trailors (the only thing that can be considered special features). Watching the trailors will show you the amount of work that went into cleaning up the film to make it a rather pleasant watching experience. These films are old and I am pretty sure they were never meant to astound the sensory organs throughout the annals of movie history, but they did a good job of making these two films look great!!It's cheap so it's worth the gamble. If you love westerns with a non-glitzy hollywood flare, take the plunge and buy the set. They are worth it. If you haven't already, buy the previous set to make it a nice, cheap, packaged deal.ENJOY