NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc.

ADDITION: Code Red Blu-ray (May 2020): Code Red have transferred Antonio Margheriti's Eurospy genre film Lightning Bolt (aka "Operazione Goldman") to Blu-ray. This is the English DUB'ed version of the film. It's on a single-layered disc and while far from a dynamic 1080P presentation - I've certainly seen worse. Colors are muted and there is inherent softness. It's hard to know if the source was compromised or that, as Anthony Eisley stated "the original negative of the film was lost and for its American release they had to reassemble the film from various prints that gave it a bad quality." It has plenty of frame-specific damage marks and bright green cue-blips (see samples at bottom) but, in the final tally - the HD presentation is video-ish, watchable - no more, no less - marginally superior to SD.   

On their Blu-ray, Code Red use a DTS-HD Master 2.0 channel track (24-bit) in the English language. Despite the high-end transfer - the audio suffers - but more a function of the DUB sync and occasional background noise. The score is by Riz Ortolani (Killer Crocodile, The Pyjama Girl Case, The Valachi Papers, Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eyes, The McKenzie Break, Day of Anger, Il Sorpasso, Woman Times Seven, Cannibal Holocaust, The Voyeur, Mondo Cane) providing a fun, action-based, atmosphere. Code Red offer no subtitles on their Region FREE Blu-ray.

The Code Red Blu-ray offers the curious The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler with Leslie Nielsen and Angie Dickinson, in a very weak SD transfer (takes up only 3.5 Gig.) Because of the quality, it was harder to watch and aside from the unaddressed "cloning' sci-fi plot, wasn't much of a film. There are also poor quality SD trailers - one for Lightning Bolt.

A few things - I really like the, sometimes hokey (but still having moderately decent production values), James Bond-ian wave of Eurospy genre films. This includes the OSS 117 films (boxset reviewed HERE), UK flics Some Girls Do, Deadlier Than the Male, and even the American versions; James Coburn's Our Man Flint (1966) + In Like Flint (1967) as well as Dean Martin's Matt Helm series of films. I'd also like to see more of the films of Wandisa Guida (Revolt of the Slaves, The Scorpion With Two Tails) looking at the 1960's titles on her resume; Secret Agent Fireball, Giants of Rome, Hercules Against Rome, The Vengeance of Ursus, The Prisoner of the Iron Mask, and Goliath and the Dragon. Yes, please.

So Antonio Margheriti's Lightning Bolt has a few positives although purchasers should keep expectations in-check for the Code Red Blu-ray a/v quality. I'm also glad I finally saw The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler even if it has little value. For under $15 this should be considered by those who appreciate the genre.   

Gary Tooze