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Saturday, December 7, 2024

Saturday, November 30, 2024

Escape From New York Modern Posters

 Limited edition posters made in the past few years.  Click to enlarge-









Saturday, November 16, 2024

LVC Grand Duel Costume at Auction

LVC's screen worn costume from the Grand Duel recently sold at auction for £5,000 (£6,250 with premium).  

Fantastic piece that is screen matched as well.  I'm sure the winner will enjoy it.  Actually, I know he will...

Catalog description-

Sheriff Clayton's (Lee Van Cleef) costume with screen-matched trousers from Giancarlo Santi's spaghetti Western The Grand Duel. Clayton wore his costume throughout the film, as he sought justice for Philip Wermeer (Alberto Dentice), a man wrongly accused of murder. The trousers screen match the climatic duelling scene through the placement of the pinstripes. This lot comes from the archives of the Italian costume company Costumi d'Arte.

The costume comprises a black satin frock coat with a suede collar and a handwritten label in the neckline reading "Liy Van Clyft [sic]"; a black corduroy waistcoat labelled "Liy Van Cliyft [sic]"; and a pair of black trousers with white pinstripes labelled "Liy Van Clyft [sic]". Each clothing item has interior labels from Italian costume supplier Costumi d'Arte Peruzzi. The costume pieces have some very minor discolouration.

Additional Provenance: This lot comes from the archives of the famed Italian costume company Costumi d'Arte. The company has been supplying some of the biggest film productions in the world with costumes for over 100 years.

Estimate: £5,000 - 10,000


Below are additional pictures.  Click to enlarge-



  

















Saturday, November 9, 2024

New Soundtrack Release - For a Few Dollars More Expanded!

Coming out December 2nd!

Beat Records Company Publishing Group in collaboration with Universal Music Publishing Ricordi and Emi Music Publishing is proud to present the complete edition of the 60th anniversary of the original motion picture soundtrack of the second movie of The Dollars Trilogy, For a Few Dollars More, featuring the score by Ennio Morricone. One of the most waited scores by the Maestro fans, and from Sergio Leone’s cinema and music lovers, a project that finally is born thanks to the finding of the score in Beat Records archives, right in time to celebrate the 60th year of life of this cinematic masterpiece by Sergio Leone with Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Gian Maria Volontè.

A soundtrack so much yearned, now finally available compete with the original RCA album program and unreleased tracks to reach the length of 66 minutes of pure Morricone western sound. A masterpiece finally available to everybody thanks to this Deluxe edition on CD in our CDX series, mastering by Claudio Fuiano and Daniel Winkler, 24 pages booklet with Averardo Ciriello cover, external hard paper tunnel with Renato Casaro cover while on the back we have a portrait of Ennio Morricone portrait drawn by Claudio Fuiano, liner notes and graphic layout by Daniele De Gemini.

A limited edition that can’t be missing from your collection.


Tracklist

1 La resa dei conti 3:04 

2 Poker d’assi 1:17

3 Osservatori osservati 2:01

4 Il vizio di uccidere 2:24

5 Carillon 1:09

6 Il colpo 2:20

7 Addio colonnello 1:43

8 Per qualche dollaro in più 2:48


The film score tracks in mono

9 Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral theme 1) 2:12 

10 Poker d’assi (Alternate version) 2:31  

11 Per qualche dollaro in più (Main Titles Reprise) 0:51

12 Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral theme 2) 1:56  

13 La resa dei conti (Reprise) 1:34  

14 Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral theme 3) 1:58

15 Per qualche dollaro in più (Main Titles Reprise 2) 0:58 

16 Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral theme 4) 1:16 

17 La resa dei conti (Reprise 2) 1:50

18 Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral theme 5) 0:55

19 Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral theme 6) 1:41

20 Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral theme 7) 1:46  

21 Per qualche dollaro in più (Main Titles Reprise 3) 2:30  

22 Carillon (Reprise) 1:11             

23 Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral theme 8) 3:22  

24 Per qualche dollaro in più (Main Titles Reprise 4) 3:15                             

25 Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral theme 9) 4:02

26 Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral theme 10) 2:03                             

27 La resa dei conti (Reprise 3) 1:09

28 Il vizio di uccidere (Alternate Version) 2:55

29 Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral theme 11) 1:34

30 Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral theme 12) 1:10

31 Carillon (Reprise 2) 2:08

32 Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral theme 13) 0:59

33 La resa dei conti (Alternate version) 2:55

 

Music composed and orchestrated by Ennio Morricone - Orchestra conducted by Bruno Nicolai

Published by EMI Music Publishing Italia srl

Tracks 1 - 8 ℗ 1965 EMI Music Publishing Italia srl, under license from Universal Music Publishing Ricordi srl

Tracks 9 - 33 ℗ 2024 EMI Music Publishing Italia srl

I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni choir - Edda Dell’Orso vocalism - Alessandro Alessandroni whistling - Nino Culasso trumpet

Bruno Battisti D’Amario classical and electric guitar - Franco Tamponi first violin - Salvatore Schillirò Jew’s harp - Bruno Nicolai organ

Stereomono total time 66:22

 

https://www.beatrecords.it/en/catalogo/3220/per-qualche-dollaro-in-piu-60th-anniversary-edition




Saturday, November 2, 2024

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Saturday, September 14, 2024

VHS Flashback: Speed Zone!

Before streaming, blu-ray, and DVD, most LVC films were only available on home video cassette tapes, usually VHS (but also Betamax).  Many of us discovered these films for the first time in these formats (usually cropped and edited).


Often times due to rights issues, these films were given new titles (some similar to the original, some not).  Often the cover image of LVC was not from the actual film!  In this case it looks like there was only one press phone of LVC for this movie and it was used on every box in every territory.

Here is a look back at the old VHS LVC video covers for Speed Zone!

  



Saturday, September 7, 2024

VHS Flashback: Killing Machine

Before streaming, blu-ray, and DVD, most LVC films were only available on home video cassette tapes, usually VHS (but also Betamax).  Many of us discovered these films for the first time in these formats (usually cropped and edited).


Often times due to rights issues, these films were given new titles (some similar to the original, some not).  Often the cover image of LVC was not from the actual film!  In this case it looks like there was only one press phone of LVC for this movie and it was used on every box in every territory.

Here is a look back at the old VHS LVC video covers for Killing Machine!




  



Saturday, August 24, 2024

Comic - Moon vs the Ghost of Lee Van Cleef

I recently ran across this on the internet- a comic called "Moon vs the Ghost of Lee Van Cleef".  Another modern take on Zombie LVC that started with the Primus music video in 2012.



The Ghost of the actor who played The Bad in the Good, the Bad and the Ugly has risen and is slowly marching across the English Channel towards a mysterious destination. All we know is he's armed, dangerous, unerringly accurate and deathly silent and he's heading towards London.. 



Saturday, August 17, 2024

Captain Apache Coming to Blu-Ray (Germany)


Coming from Lighthouse on November 8th, is a limited Mediabook Edition with booklet, Blu-Ray and DVD.  Only extra looks to be the trailer, so odds are this is just a repackage of existing media.

Order from amazon.de


Saturday, August 10, 2024

Bad Man's River (Matalo) Coming to Blu-ray (Germany)

 

Bad Man's River aka Matalo is coming to blu-ray in Germany on September 13.  Likely the same transfer that was put out by Kino Lober reviewed here.

The famous and groundbreaking spaghetti western with an absolute star cast (including Lee van Cleef, Gina Lollobrigida, James Mason) completely digitally remastered for the first time on DVD & Blu-ray - of course in the original uncut cinema version and for all collectors in a magnificent artwork as a reversible cover! 
 
Playboy Roy King (Lee Van Cleef) and his daredevil comrades Angel, Odie and Pace are masters at breaking into bank vaults. After their last, extremely profitable coup, they split up to enjoy the fruits of their "labor". On the train journey, King falls for the charms of the lovely widow Alicia (Gina Lollobrigida), who, however, makes off with all the loot. Undaunted, King reactivates his old comrades for one last, big coup: the Mexican revolutionary Montero offers them a million dollars if they blow up a large arsenal of weapons belonging to the Mexican army.

But the job turns out to be a deadly trap, and King realizes that he will meet Alicia again...

    • Original theatrical version
    • Completely digitally remastered and re-scanned in HD
    • For collectors in original artwork as reversible cover


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