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The Big Gundown: Limited Edition (1966)

Tuesday 27th September 2022

Earning a reputation as one of the greatest and most influential Italian westerns, The Big Gundown is released as numbered Limited Edition Blu-ray 5th December 2022 from Powerhouse Films.
Lee Van Cleef, Tomas Milian, Walter Barnes, Nieves Navarro, Gérard Herter, Manolita Barroso
Sergio Sollima
Tulio Demicheli, Alberto Grimaldi
Powerhouse Films
4 hours 54 minutes
05/12/2022
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Released the same year as Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Sergio Corbucci's Django, The Big Gundown (La resa di conti) is a classic spaghetti western. Directed by the great Sergio Sollima (Face to Face, Violent City) this brutal film elevated western regualr Lee Van Cleef (Ride Lonesome) to his first ever starring role.

When bounty hunter Jonathan Corbett (Van Cleef) is hired to track down a Mexican peasant (Tomas Milian, in a career-defining role) who has been accused of an appalling crime, he is initially outwitted by the wily bandit. However, the relationshion between the two men soon takes an unexpected turn and they team up to take on railroad baron Brockston (Walter Barnes).

With its rousing score by legendary composer Ennio Morricone, and its politically charged screenplay by Sergio Donati (Once Upon a Time in the West) and Franco Solinas (The Battle of Algiers), The Big Gundown has earned its reputation as one of the greatest and most influential Italian westerns.

Released on Blu-ray 5th December 2022 from Powerhouse Films, this individually numbered Limited Edition includes three versions of the film - the US theatrical cut, the extended US cut, and the original 110-minute Italian version - along with a fascinating selection of new and archival extra features, a poster, and an 80-page book.

  • 2K restorations
  • Three feature presentations: La resa dei conti (110 mins): the original Italian theatrical version, presented with both Italian and English soundtracks; the original US theatrical version (90 mins); and the extended US cut (95 mins) with scenes added for television broadcast
  • Original mono audio
  • Audio commentary with writers and film experts Barry Forshaw and Kim Newman on the Italian theatrical version (2022)
  • Audio commentary with film historians C Courtney Joyner and Henry Parke on the extended US cut (2013)
  • Spaghetti Western Memories (2012): documentary in which director Sergio Sollima and actor Tomas Milian revisit this much-heralded western
  • Tomas Milian: Acting on Instinct (2013): the genre-film star revisits The Big Gundown and reveals some of his acting secrets
  • Stephen Thrower on 'The Big Gundown' (2022): the author and musician on the unique qualities of Sollima's classic
  • Austin Fisher on 'The Big Gundown' (2022): the author of Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western: Politics, Violence and Popular Italian Cinema situates the film in the wider context of the genre
  • Isolated music & effects tracks
  • Original US theatrical trailers
  • Original Italian theatrical trailer
  • TV spots
  • Image galleries: production stills and promotional material
  • New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
  • Limited edition exclusive 80-page book with a new essay by Italian cinema expert Roberto Curti, archival interviews with Lee Van Cleef, Tomas Milian, and Sergio Sollima, extracts from the film's promotional materials, an examination of the work of co-screenwriter Franco Solinas, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and full film credits
  • Limited edition exclusive poster
  • UK premiere on any home video format
  • Limited edition of 5,000 copies

Please note - Disc special features are subject to change, may differ from format to format and/or may differ from region to region.

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