#sartana's here trade your pistol for a coffin

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"Nobody ever would've guessed where you had the gun this time."

"Of course not. You're my wildcard."

George Hilton as Sartana & Charles Southwood as Sabata aka Sabbath in Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol For A Coffin aka A Fistful Of Lead (1970) dir. Giuliano Carnimeo

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Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin! (1970)

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let's hope your situation gets better soon :) did you watch any stuff you liked lately? Would you like to share?

Thank you nice anon I'm slowly getting better thankfully^^

While stuck at home I finished the Sartana series with Sartana's here, trade your pistol for a coffin which happened to be the weakest link in the series (probably because of Gianni Garko not playing Sartana tbh) and also watched bone tomahawk for the first time, wich I loved! have to say it's an amazing piece of western horror I mean it takes you for a ride and then unravels at the speed of light last second in a brutal yet really well done ending, would definitely recommend it to any horror fan or Kurt Russell fan he gives a hell of a performance in it as the main lead (on pair whit his performance in the hateful eight))

I also watched the price of death starring Gianni Garko and Klaus Kinksi one of those "this isn't a Sartana movie we promise ;)) his name is silver not Sartana see? :)" kinda movies, but it was surprisingly good? Like western meets giallo good it had everything I would ask from a spaghetti western and it also had Mimma Biscardi playing an iconic saloon/brothel owner.

Also aside from those I watched the new episodes of smiling friends, having a blast with those.

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sartana’s here... trade your pistol for a coffin / c'è Sartana... vendi la pistola e comprati la bara! (it, carnimeo 70)

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RIP George Hilton (16.7.1934 - 28.7.2019)

Born Jorge Hill Acosta y Lara in Montevideo, Uruguay, then raised in England before moving to Argentina in his 20s, Hilton's life was one of international travel from an early age. His acting career kicked off in Argentina where, going by Jorge Hilton, he took roles in a number of soap operas and had minor parts in several films.

In 1963 he moved again, to Italy, where the film industry was rapidly growing. Anglicising his name further to George Hilton (standard practice for Italian cinema, to aid with sales overseas), the actor soon found himself in regular demand. His first notable roles were the lead in L'uomo mascherato contro i pirati (The Masked Man Against The Pirates, 1964) and a tongue in cheek appearance as 007 in Due mafiosi contro Goldginger (Two Mafiosi Against Goldfinger, 1965), but it was a supporting role in Lucio Fulci's Le colt cantarono la morte e fu... tempo di massacro (Massacre Time, 1966) that was to really make his name.

As the drunken gunslinger brother to Franco Nero's stoic hero, Hilton stole focus and won favourable reviews. A slew of spaghetti westerns followed: there was Vado... l'ammazzo e torno (Any Gun Can Play, 1967), La più grande rapina del West (1967, released as Halleluja for Django in the USA, although Django does not appear), and in 1970 he stepped into Gianni Garko's shoes to play Sartana in C'è Sartana... vendi la pistola e comprati la bara (Sartana's Here… Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin). In 1971 he took the lead in Testa t'ammazzo, croce... sei morto - Mi chiamano Alleluja (They Call Me Hallelujah), returning for a sequel the following year.

Already an icon of spaghetti western cinema, as the 1970s dawned Hilton turned his hand to the next big genre in Italian films - the giallo. Sergio Martino cast him as one of the leads in his excellent, but morally complex Lo strano vizio della Signora Wardh (The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh, 1971), opposite Edwige Fenech - Hilton was married to Martino's cousin, Fenech to the director's brother. Hilton and Martino worked together again on the stunning La coda dello scorpione (The Case Of The Scorpion's Tail, 1971), and Fenech returned for the deliriously avant-garde Tutti i colori del buio (All the Colors of the Dark, 1972).

That same year, Hilton starred in Mio caro assassino (My Dear Killer), directed by Tonino Valerii. Although it hasn't had the pop culture impact of contemporary films by, say, Dario Argento, or even Fulci and Martino, for my money Valerii's film is one of the most technically accomplished and finely executed gialli ever created. Stylish, intelligent and intricately plotted, the film follows Hilton's eminently likeable Inspector Luca Peretti as he doggedly investigates a string of bizarre murders (beginning with an unforgettable decapitation by mechanical digger) and solves a cold case into the bargain. It really is an under-appreciated highpoint of the genre, and Hilton remained proud of it - although he had found the shoot challenging, in a later interview the actor named it as one of the four films he had made which he would like to be remembered for.

Hilton worked steadily through the rest of the decade, but his career slowed down into the 1980s and 90s. In later years he was rarely seen onscreen, but had amassed a loyal fan base and found a new career appearing at conventions and providing interviews and commentaries for his earlier genre films. In 2016 he received a tribute at the 19th International Film Festival in Punta del Este.

"I remember like it was today. The film was the 'L'uomo mascherato contro i pirati' (Masked Man Against the Pirates). Look at that title! The director was Vertunnio De Angelis, he saw me and said, "No, you are too skinny, I want a muscular man". Then a door opened and the producer left, Pino Addario, saying: "This is fantastic to be the protagonist". He asked if I knew fencing, shooting and horseback riding. I said yes to everything but it was not true. I called a few days later and he gave me the part."

"[To star in a western you must have] a physical body, learn to ride a horse, punching and boxing. I did, have resistance and you must withstand dirt, dust and shots ... but I always preferred comedies like Cary Grant did. I must confess that to me, no, I never liked the westerns."

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Sartana’s Here...Trade Your Guns for a Coffin 1970

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hello all! i’m kate , 20+ , and use any pronouns ! this is an private indie rp blog for SARTANA LISTON, based primarily on the films BLOOD AT SUNDOWN (1966) , IF YOU MEET SARTANA, PRAY FOR YOUR DEATH (1968) and I AM SARTANA , YOUR ANGEL OF DEATH (1969) . minor inspiration is taken HAVE A GOOD FUNERAL , MY FRIEND , SARTANA WILL PAY (1970) and LIGHT THE FUSE , SARTANA IS COMING (1970) . gianni garko will remain his fc , though inspiration is also taken from SARTANA’S HERE , TRADE YOUR PISTOL FOR A COFFIN (1970) .

while i primarily want to focus on the “wild west” time period , i am working towards a modern verse that leans more into his supernatural nature. if you want to have a western verse for your muse , now is the chance ! 

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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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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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Sartana as text posts 4/?

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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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Sartana as text posts 3/?

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Cover art of Sartana’s Here... Trade Your Pistol For A Coffin (1970)

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Sartana as text posts 2/?

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Sartana’s Here... Trade Your Pistol for a  Coffin 1970