#Have a Good Funeral My Friend... Sartana Will Pay

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Sartana study

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Have a Good Funeral, My Friend... Sartana Will Pay (1970)

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246! Faves among the movies I saw for the first time were Godzilla x Kong, Bad Boys 4, The Beekeeper, Watership Down, Have A Good Funeral My Friend... Sartana Will Pay, Santo and Blue Demon vs. The Monsters, The Long Good Friday, Rocky, Arena, Princess Mononoke, The Boy and the Heron, Armour of God, Starcrash, Charley Varrick, and High and Low!

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mine were the substance, female trouble, pink flamingos, run lola run, trainspotting, death proof, 2001: a space odyssey, poor things, and decker: port of call: hawaii!

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Sartana as text posts 4/?

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Preview: The Complete Sartana Limited Edition [Blu-ray]

Preview: The Complete Sartana Limited Edition [Blu-ray]

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 Dollarsrelease, 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…

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If You Meet Saranta... Pray For Your Death - Just as convoluted and confusing as the title suggests

I heard about this series of spaghetti westerns yesterday while reading one of my favorite movie tumblr blogs. It sounded rather intriguing so I searched and found a rather poor print of the film on YouTube last night. I’ve long been a fan of this genre, with its fetishization of the bizarre guns and hardware, weird European landscapes that are supposed to represent the American West and/or Mexico, overloud and messy gunfights, badly dubbed actors and nearly incomprehensible plots, and believe me, this film has it all.

We start out the movie in a barren wasteland (obviously a sand or gravel pit, which they use again and again in this picture) as all the passengers of a stage are gunned down by a mysterious man (Klaus Kinski) with bells on his spurs (a nice touch, but why exactly he would want bells on his spurs in the first place is never quite explained). A gang of bad guys shows up and are all gunned down in spectacular fashion by our hero(?) Sartana (Gianni Garko) with a great opening line “I am your pallbearer”, with a nifty little four shot derringer. All this opening scene bloodshed for a piece of paper with some sort of ‘Wells Fargo’ message on it in the pocket of one of the victims, somehow meant to propel the plot along.

We move into town where a gold shipment is being loaded on another stage, which is then robbed by another large gang of bad guys (and everyone murdered of course), who are then gunned down by their leader, “Lasky” (William Berger) in spectacular fashion with a gattling gun, only to discover the gold shipment is actually a box of rocks. (it is at this point that I considered backing up and keeping a tally of the body count of this movie -- not sure how many meet a bloody end in this film, but there seems to be a never ending supply of bad guys to shoot down throughout the picture)... And of course, our mysterious ‘Sartana’ shows up, picks up a musical pocket watch and begins tormenting Lasky (and others) with it for most of the rest of the movie.

This all turns out to be some sort of insurance fraud set up by the town’s banker and his henchman, with double crosses aplenty, but how or what Sartana has to do with anything is anybody’s guess.

I’m curious to see what they do in the sequels, when they have a slightly bigger budget to work with. From what I’ve read, this series of movies was quite popular overseas, and was perhaps the link between the more serious Spaghetti Westerns and the more slapstick comedy of the Terrence Hill ‘Trinity’ series.

The sequels all have equally convoluted names, such as:

I Am Sartana ... Pray For Your Death

Have a Good Funeral, My Friend ... Sartana Will Pay

Light the Fuse ... Sartana is Coming

Sartana’s Here ... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin

UPDATE: In December of 2018, Amazon Prime put all these films up on their streaming queue, and I went back and revisited this first movie. What a difference a decent print makes. In the original Italian with english subtitles, the story made more sense, the screen compositions were wonderfully creative and exciting, and I enjoyed it much more on this viewing. I’m going to update the star rating accordingly, and will be moving on to the other films in the series. 

3 stars out of 5

Released 1968, First Viewing July 2017

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Have a Good Funeral, My Friend Sartana Will Pay 1970-Western-English sub

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Have A Good Funeral, My Friend...Sartana Will Pay (1970) d. Giuliano Carnimeo (poster from France)

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Films I watched in January 2017

1.      Secretary (Steven Shainberg, 2002)

2.      Caligula (Tinto Brass, 1980)

3.      Memories of murder (Bong Joon-ho, 2003)

4.      Moonlight (Berry Jenkins, 2016)

5.      La La Land  (Damien Chazelle, 2016)

6.      Death Race 2050 (G. J. Echternkamp, 2017)

7.      Train to Busan (Yeon Sang-ho, 2016)

8.      Aguirre, the Wrath  of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)

9.      Boot Hill (Giuseppe Colizzi, 1969)

10.  Hair Extensions (Sion Sono, 2007)

11.  Alps (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2011)

12.  Blood at Sundown (Alberto Cardone, 1966)

13.  If you Meet Sartana Pray for Death (Gianfrano Parolini, 1968)

14.  Sartanas Here Trade your Pistol for a Coffin (Giuliano Carnimeo, 1970)

15.  Sartana the Gravedigger  (Giuliano Carnimeo, 1969)

16.  Light the Fuse Sartana is Coming (Giuliano Carnimeo, 1970)

17.  Have a Good Funeral my Friend…Sartana will Pay (Giuliano Carnimeo 1970)

18.  Sartana in the Valley of Death (Roberto Mauri, 1970)

19.  Price of Death (Lorenzo Gicca Palli, 1971)

20.  The Happiness of the Katakuris (Takashi Miike, 2001)

21.  xXx: Return of Xander Cage (D. J. Caruso, 2017)

22.  Django and Sartana (Demofilo Fidani, 1970)

23.  Django vs Sartana (Demofilo Fidani, 1970)

24.  Plague  Dogs (Martin Rosen, 1982)

25.  Silence (Martin Scorsese 2016)

26.  Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May, 1976)

27.  Machine Gun McCain (Giuliano Montaldo, 1970)

28.  Felidae (Michael Schaack, 1994)

29.  The Dead Pool (Buddy Van Horn, 1988)

30.  Letters to Momo (Hiroyuki Okiura 2011)

31.  Bullet Ballet (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1998)

32.  Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016)

33.  The Nice Guys (Shane Black, 2016)

34.  A Place Promised in out Early Days (Makoto Shinkai, 2004)

35.  Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die! (Tonino Cervi, 1968)

36.  Julieta (Pedro Almodovar, 2016)

37.  Your Name (Makoto Shinkai, 2016)

38.  Yu-Gi-Oh: The Dark Side of Dimensions (Satoshi Kuwabara, 2017)

39.  Shin Godzilla (Hideaki Anno, 2016)

40.  Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice (Kenji Misumi, 1972)

41.  Sadako vs Kayako (Koji Shiraishi, 2016)

42.  The Isle (Kim Ki-duk, 2000)

43.  Merci Pour Le Chocolat (Claude Chabrol, 2000)

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Have a Good Funeral, My Friend...Sartana Will Pay (1970)

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Gianni Garko as Sartana, circa 1968-1970

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HAVE A GOOD FUNERAL MY FRIEND SARTANA WILL PAY & LIGHT THE FUSE SARTANA IS COMING (1970)

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German lobby cards of Have A Good Funeral My Friend... Sartana Will Pay (1970)

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Sono Sartana Il Vostro Becchino (1969)

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