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Spaghetti Western Double Feature: Grand Duel [Blu-ray] [1976] [US Import]

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  • Language: English
  • Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Studio: MILL CREEK
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B007NYZ9YI
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MILL CREEK 63096 KEOMA/GRAND DUEL SPAGHETTI WESTERN DOUBLE FEATURE BLU-RAY

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The genre may have been winding down in 1972, but Giancarlo Santi's The Grand Duel aka The Big Showdown aka Hell's Fighters is a superior serving of spaghetti that's a lot of fun. Lee Van Cleef is on great form as the ex-marshal acting as unlikely protector for Alberto Dentice's escaped killer ("He doesn't look like a murderer." "The thing is, my dear, what matters is that he kills like one."), determined to bring him back to the town whose corrupt patriarch he's been convicted of murdering despite the best efforts of a slew of scuzzy competing bounty hunters. Naturally Dentice (billed here as Peter O'Brien) is innocent, framed by the three corrupt Saxon brothers who run the town - fey white-clad and pockmarked Adam (Klaus Grunberg), angry sheriff Eli (Marc Mazza) and the smoothly ambitious new patriarch David (Horst Frank), who sees the town and Dentice's silver mine as the key to bigger things because "In a violent country, he who seizes today controls tomorrow." Only Eli seems bothered about finding out who really killed their father, but he's just as content as the others to get rid of both Dentice and Van Cleef, despite the latter being the only one who really knows who fired the fatal shot.

In his customary black attire, Van Cleef's bastard with a star on his chest is the kind of unflappable laidback anti-hero who just hangs his travelling bag on a bounty hunter's gun when facing him down. By contrast Dentice is the more athletic and occasionally intense of the two, who only have their apparent incorruptibility in common - one is too old to sell himself, the other is too young.
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Format: Blu-ray
Again American budget label Millcreek have served up another two movie pack of genre classics both making their HD debuts. As with a few other titles from this company the Blu ray is locked to the American standard of region A meaning that it will not play on standalone UK machines. I have found though that I can bypass the region coding on my UK Panasonic BD80 by pressing 'functions' on the wrong region screen which takes you back to the Panasonic home screen from which you then press '1' follwed by 'ok' which then proceeds to load the disc. As far as I know this ONLY works on Panasonic equipment and only on certain Blu rays. This particular set concerns Spaghetti Westerns but unlike the previous release from Millcreek which featured two forgettable bottom of the barrell Spag western titles, The Last Gun and Four Dollars For Revenge this contains two top tier classics of the genre. First up is The Grand Duel from 1972 starring the legendary Lee Van Cleef. Also known as The Big Showdown or Stormrider this is genuinely entertaining and features some great shootouts, attractive cinematography and some surprising splashes of violence. The cast are excellent with Van Cleef in particular giving a fantastic performance as the cool as ice Sheriff Clayton and a special note must also go to the music score by Luis Bacalov(Django). The Grand Duel is a well made, tight spaghetti western that has everything a fan would expect from the genre all produced to a very high standard and despite an air of silliness in certain scenes comes highly recommended.
Next up is Enzo G Castellari's infamous psychedelic western Keoma starring Django himself Franco Nero. The revenge storyline is rather traditional but the execusion is anything but.
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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.
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