Blood Money: Four Western Classics Vol. 2
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$10,000 Blood Money
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Vengeance is Mine
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Find a Place to Die
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Matalo!
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A steamy secret tryst that was brutally cut short on Valentine's Day an unlucky thirteen years ago comes back to haunt the teens who linger around the lovers lane where the double slaying took place. The County Sheriff Tom Anderson (Matt Riedy) has just about come to terms with the fact that it was his wife who died in another man's car on that fateful night. His daughter Mandy (Erin J. Dean), who as a four-year-old saw her mother's corpse carried away from the scene, has a different take on things. It doesn't help that her classmate Michael (Riley Smith) lost his father to the same hook-handed homicidal maniac in that night's incident. To cap it all off, as another Valentine's Day comes round, reports come through that the man arrested as "The Hook" has just bust out of his asylum.
Prepare yourself for the ultimate hook up in a scream-a-minute rollercoaster that marked the film debut of Anna Faris (the Scary Movie series; Lost in Translation).
$10,000 Blood Money
In Romolo Guerrieri's $10,000 Blood Money (1967; a.k.a. $10,000 for a Massacre), Gianni Garko - best known for his portrayal of supernatural gunslinger Sartana - takes on the part of another beloved western antihero, Django, who is on the trail of bandit Manuel Vasquez (Claudio Camaso, A Bay of Blood). But what started as a job for hire soon turns personal, with Django swearing vengeance against the unscrupulous outlaw.
Vengeance is Mine
In the $10,000 for a Massacre's spiritual successor, Giovanni Fago's Vengeance is Mine (1967; a.k.a. $100,000 for a Killing), Garko and Camaso once again lead the cast, this time as estranged half-brothers - one a Confederate soldier now riding with renegade outlaws, the other a bounty hunter tasked with bringing him in alive.
Find a Place to Die
In Giuliano Carnimeo's Find a Place to Die (1968), Jeffrey Hunter (The Searchers) plays Joe Collins, a disgraced former soldier who assembles a ragtag band of scoundrels. They are lured into helping a woman (Pascale Petit, A Queen for Caesar) to rescue her prospector husband, who is trapped at their gold mine cave-in - though in reality, they have designs on the gold strike themselves.
Matalo!
In Cesare Canevari's psychedelic Matalo! (Kill Him) (1970), double- and triple-crosses abound as a band of outlaws, having holed up in an isolated ghost town, set about terrorizing travelers Ray (Lou Castel, Orgasmo) and Bridget (Ana María Mendoza, 7 Women for the MacGregors) - only to get more than they bargained for when Ray fights back, armed only with his weapon of choice: a bag full of boomerangs.
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Supplements
- Brand new audio commentary by author and film historian Lee Broughton
- Tears of Django - newly edited featurette with archival interviews with director Romolo Guerrieri and actor Gianni Garko
- The Producer Who Didn't Like Western Movies - brand new interview with producer Mino Loy
- How the West Was Won - brand new interview with screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi
- Theatrical trailer
- Brand new audio commentary by critics Adrian J. Smith and David Flint
- Cain and Abel - newly edited featurette with archival interviews with actor Gianni Garko and screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi
- In Conversation with Nora Orlandi - newly edited archival interview with the film's iconic composer
- Movie After Movie - brand new interview with producer Mino Loy
- Theatrical trailer
- Brand new audio commentary by author and critic Howard Hughes
- Sons of Leone - newly edited archival interview with director Giuliano Carnimeo
- Traditional Figure - brand new, in-depth appreciation of the soundtrack and its composer, Gianni Ferrio, by musician and disc collector Lovely Jon
- Brand new audio commentary by critics Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson
- A Milanese Story - brand new, in-depth interview with filmmaker Davide Pulici, discussing the career of Matalo! director Cesare Canevari
- Untold Icon - brand new, in-depth appreciation of the soundtrack and its composer, Mario Migliardi, by musician and disc collector Lovely Jon
- Theatrical trailer
- Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing by author and critic Howard Hughes
- Fold-out double-sided poster featuring newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx