Clint Eastwood’s Man with No Name spawned imitations, variations
and shameless rip-offs keen to emulate his success at the box
office. Within months of A Fistful of Dollars’ release, Giuliano
Gemma was playing Ringo, who was then followed by Franco Nero’s
Django, Tony Anthony’s The Stranger and Gianni Garko’s Sartana –
each providing their own twist on the Eastwood antihero, and each
of them then subject to their own spate of unofficial sequels,
spoofs and cash-ins.
Sartana tapped into more than just his Spaghetti Western
predecessors – a mysterious figure, he has a spectral quality,
aided by his Count Dracula-like cloak which also nods towards
comic strip figure Mandrake the Magician, with whom he shares a
penchant for card tricks. He takes pride in his appearance unlike
the Eastwood’s dusty wanderer or Nero’s mud-caked drifter. And
there’s a dose of James Bond too in his fondness for gadgetry and
the droll sense of humor.
Unsurprisingly, this unique figure in the genre was treated to
four official follow-ups. The Complete Sartana collects all five
films, presented here in brand-new restorations: If You Meet
Sartana... Pray for Your Death, I Am Sartana, Your Angel of
Death, Have a Good Funeral My Friend... Sartana Will Pay, Light
the Fuse... Sartana Is Coming, and Sartana’s Here... Trade Your
Pistol for a Coffin, in which George Hilton replaced Garko in the
lead role.
SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
* Brand-new 2K restoration of If You Meet Sartana... Pray for
Your Death from original film materials, carried out by Arrow
Films exclusively for this release
* Brand-new 2K restorations of I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death,
Sartana’s Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin, Have a Good
Funeral My Friend... Sartana Will Pay and Light the Fuse...
Sartana Is Coming from original camera negatives, carried out by
Arrow Films exclusively for this release
* Original Italian and English soundtracks on all five films
* Uncompressed mono 1.0 PCM audio
* Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian soundtracks
* Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for
the English soundtracks
* Audio commentary on If You Meet Sartana... Pray for Your Death
by filmmaker Mike Siegel
* Audio commentaries on I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death and
Have a Good Funeral My Friend… Sartana Will Pay by Spaghetti
Western experts C. Courtney Joyner and Henry Parke
* Gianfranco Parolini on If You Meet Sartana… Pray for Your
Death, a brand-new interview with the writer-director
* Light the Fuse: Sartana’s Casting, a video essay guide to many
familiar faces in the Sartana films by Jonathan Bygraves
* Sal Borgese on I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death and Light the
Fuse… Sartana Is Coming, two brand-new interviews with the actor
* Ernesto taldi on I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death and Light
the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming, two brand-new interviews with the
writer
* Sartana Shoots First, a brand-new interview with George Hilton
on Sartana’s Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin
* Erika Blanc on Sartana’s Here... Trade Your Pistol for a
Coffin, a brand-new interview with the actor
* Tony Askin on Sartana’s Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin,
a brand-new interview with the actor
* Roberto Dell’Acqua on Have a Good Funeral My Friend... Sartana
Will Pay, a brand-new interview with the actor
* Sartana Lives, an archive featurette on Light the Fuse… Sartana
Is Coming featuring interviews with actor Gianni Garko and
director Giuliano Carnimeo
* Galleries of original promotional images from the Mike Siegel
Archive for all five films
* Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned
artwork by Matthew Griffin