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(aka "Faccia a faccia" or "Face to Face" or "Cara a cara" or "Il était une fois en Arizona" or "Zwei links, zwei rechts und Halleluja" )
directed by Sergio Sollima
Italy/Spain 1967
Outspoken New England
school teacher Fletcher (Gian Maria Volante,
FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE) is forced into
retirement by poor health and moves out west to Texas.
An act of kindness to captured outlaw Beauregard aka
Soloman Bennet (Thomas Milian, DJANGO KILL!) gets
Fletcher taken hostage by the wounded man. Rather than
letting him die, Fletcher nurses him back to health in
his gang's mountain hideout. Charlie Siringo (William
Berger, FIVE DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON) - whose
credentials include several wanted posters - tracks down
Bennett and proposes that they get his gang back
together, but Bennet suspects the other man of being a
Pinkerton detective. When Bennet is well enough to track
down his dispersed and captured gang members, he sends
Fletcher off to Purgatory City to catch a train back to
civilization. Bennet has come to the town in search of
cohort Aaron Chase (José Torres, DEATH RIDES A HORSE)
and Fletcher once again saves his life (this time by
shooting a man). Although Bennet tells Fletcher to go
home, but Fletcher decides to join him as he rounds up
his old gang members. While visiting the De Winton
plantation to convince Maximilian (Ángel de Pozo,
HORROR EXPRESS) to take up with them again, the
sheriff plans to arrest Bennet against the advice of
Siringo, who turns out to be a Pinkerton detective. When
Siringo kills the sheriff, Bennet (taking a cue from
Fletcher) goes with his brain instead of his gut and
welcomes him into the gang. They go on to Puerta de
Fuego (well, Pietra de Fuoco in the Italian dialogue and
English subtitles), a colony of gold-less prospectors
and forgotten outlaws, in search of Zackary Shawn (Aldo
Sambrell), but they are told that he was taken and no
one knows where he is being kept. Bennet tells the group
that they will need a lot of money in order to gain
information about Shawn's whereabouts and Fletcher
devises a foolproof plan to rob a bank. Siringo secretly
sends a communication back to the Pinkerton agency to
have Shawn moved to a jail in a town near Puerta de
Fuego. Bennet is ready to bust him out, but Fletcher
(without suspecting Siringo) rightly suspects that it is
a setup. They go ahead with the bank robbery, but
Siringo's intervention causes a bloody shootout. Bennet
is captured by Siringo and Fletcher is the only one to
make it back to Puerta de Fuego with the loot. Fletcher
forms a new Wild Gang out of the citizens of Puerta de
Fuego, and then extends his recruiting to the best
criminals from major cities. When Siringo's plan to send
Wallace (Lorenzo Robledo, COMPANEROS) to
infiltrate the gang fails miserably, the law responds by
recruiting hundreds of vigilantes to massacre Puerta de
Fuego. |
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Theatrical Release: 23 November 1967 (Italy)
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Big thanks to Eric Cotenas for the DVD Review!
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Runtime | 1:47:00 (4% PAL speedup) | 1:33:19.594 / SD-Italian: 1:52:02 | 1:33:59.083 / Italian: 1:50:23 |
Video |
2.33:1 Original Aspect Ratio
16X9 enhanced |
2.35:1 Disc Size: 24,064,004,235 bytes Feature Size: 19,595,298,816 bytes Total Bitrate: 24.91 MbpsSingle -layered Blu-ray MPEG4 - AVC |
2.35:1 Disc Size: 49,083,478,946 bytes Feature Size: 19,595,298,816 bytes Total Bitrate: 22.99 MbpsDual-layered Blu-ray MPEG4 - AVC |
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Audio | Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 mono | DUB: DTS-HD Master Audio English 1580 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1580 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit) |
International Version: DTS-HD Master Audio French 1995 kbps 2.0 / 48
kHz / 1995 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps
/ 24-bit) |
Subtitles | English, none | None (burned-in English on the Italian SD) |
International Version:
English, French (non-removable
for non-French language) Director's Cut: non-removable French for Italian audio |
Features |
Release Information: Studio: Eureka Video Aspect Ratio:
Edition Details: • 17-page Liner Notes Booklet with Essay by Howard Hughes DVD Release Date: June 20th, 2011 Amaray Chapters 13 |
Release Information: Studio: Kino Lorber
2.35:1 Disc Size: 24,064,004,235 bytes Feature Size: 19,595,298,816 bytes Total Bitrate: 24.91 MbpsSingle -layered Blu-ray MPEG4 - AVC
Edition Details: • Italian version in SD (1:52:02)
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Navajo Joe
Trailer (1:51)
Blu-ray
Release Date:
August 18th, 2015 |
Release Information: Studio: Kino Lorber
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Edition Details: • Entrien Avec Jean-Francois Gire (29:36 - French only)• Restoration of the film (3:51 - French-only) • 60-page Book by Alain Petit, with Photos and rare documents (French only text)
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Release Date: July 4th, 2018 |
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ADDITION: Wild Side - Region 'B' -
Blu-ray
July
18':
Once again Wild Side is catering to its
French-language audience only. This
Blu-ray has both the Director's,
longer, Cut and International versions of the film in 1080P sharing
the same dual-layered
Blu-ray. There isn't significant
difference for the International version with the Kino - perhaps
having slightly darker black levels but the image remains modest and
Eric is correct in that the Director's Cut (with no English-friendly
option) appears to be in a weaker-source condition. NOTE: The announced Eureka Blu-ray of Face to Face, listed HERE, was never released, to my knowledge. Firstly, the Director's Cut has no English options at all. It has Italian with, non-removable, French subtitles or a French DUB. The International version offers Italian, English or French in DTS-HD Master (24-bit) but, again, non-removable French subtitles if non-French language is chosen. This doesn't allow you to see either cut in its original theatrical presentation (Italian, no subtitles) and the imposed French subtitles are frustrating. The Blu-ray disc is Region 'B'-locked and a PAL DVD is included.There are extras - a piece on the film with Jean-Francois Gire and another on the restoration - both only in French (audio) with no subtitles and the handsome 60-page book with beautiful photos and French text. This is such another impressive Blu-ray package from Wild Side with the large book but, again, the non-removable subtitles are a black-mark (and, presumably unecessary, distraction.) Those requiring a French-friendly Blu-ray edition this also offers both versions in 1080P but those preferring an, unobstructed, English-friendly version should seek out the Kino Blu-ray.*** ADDITION: Kino Lorber - Region 'A' - Blu-ray July 15': What Eric stated below appears to be correct the HD Master for the Italian version must not have been in good enough condition, and hence Kino Lorber have gone 1080P with the 18.5 minute shorter English DUB'ed version (the 'American Cut') - also including the Italian version as an SD supplement. The new Blu-ray visuals aren't perfect but they are a darn sight better than the 2011 DVD with more natural colors (skin tones), superior contrast and slightly more information in the frame. It is darker but is consistent. Kino use a DTS-HD Master 2.0 track at 1580 kbps. The sound quality reflects a Spaghetti-western of the late 60's with the effects (gunfire) being a bit hollow. The score is by Ennio Morricone (A Bullet for the General, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, U Turn, Stay As You Are etc. etc.) conducted by Bruno Nicolai and is one of the highlights supporting the moods and western-aura well via the lossless. There are no subtitles on the English version and burned-in one on the SD Italian version. The Blu-ray disc is region 'A'-locked. As stated, the extras consistent of a 480i transfer of the Italian taking up only 4 Gig and is probably weaker than the Eureka DVD. There is also a trailer for Navajo Joe. While I always have great respect for Leone - I do love the non-Leone Spaghetti westerns. This didn't go overboard with the style as much as we have seen from other efforts and it's a good film! It's a shame that the Italian version is not 'up-to-snuff' for an HD transfer but it's good they included it as an extra. Recommended to pasta-western fans. *** ON THE DVD: Initially announced as a dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition, Eureka Video scrapped those plans when the HD master proved not up to scratch (they contacted producer Alberto Grimaldi's studio in search of better elements, but it appears this has not been as cared for as Grimaldi's Leone and Pasolini films). Eureka's DVD-only edition is generally clean, but there are intermittent white spots and scratches. Given Eureka's track record, I'm assuming that the edge enhancement was part of the master (most evident in the last screencap), which may have also have been why the Blu was scrapped. The only audio option is a good condition Italian mono track with optional English subtitles (unsuitable elements for the English dub track have also lead to its exclusion here). The English subtitles refer to the town of Puerta de Fuego as "Pietra de Fuoco" as does the Italian dialogue (the Imdb cast listing also suggests that some names were changed for the English dub). This is the full 107 minute version (PAL timing) rather than the 93 minute version initially submitted by Eureka to the BBFC (almost all DVD editions have been the full version, with the exception of the non-anamorphic Spanish DVD which represented the 100 minute [PAL speed] Spanish cut). The layer change occurs roughly 82 minutes into the movie in the middle of one of William Berger's lines. The 16 minute interview with Sollima may be a subtitled version of the one present on the Italian CDE DVD. The anamorphic trailer is not the Italian trailer as listed on the press release, rather it is a textless version (the non-anamorphic trailer features the content with English language renderings of the title card and actor and crew credits). A 17-page booklet is listed among the extras, but was not included with this check disc. If you have not seen the film (very different from Grimaldi's Leone westerns, although carrying over designer Carlo Simi and composer Ennio Morricone), then the Eureka disc is probably the most accessible way to see it. The German Koch DVD was also English friendly (subtitles for the Italian track, no English dub), but the extras were unsubtitled and it was only available in a Sergio Sollima boxed set (which is out of print). A long out of print Japanese DVD featured the English track (reportedly in poor quality) and English dubtitles for the Italian track, but was non-anamorphic and a PAL-NTSC transfer. The Italian disc from CDE is not English-friendly and the Spanish Divisa DVD is non-anamorphic and represents the Spanish cut of the film. |
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