Man, Pride and Vengeance [Blu-ray]

The CARMEN legend gets a Spaghetti Western makeover in Director Luigi Bazzoni's 'MAN, PRIDE. AND VENGEANCE' aka 'L'UOMO, L'OROLOGIO. LA VENDETTA'- `1967. Fresh from his hit Director Sergio Corbucci's 'DJANGO'-1966, actor Franco Nero plays the tragic soldier infatuated with the gypsy prostitute Carmen played by cult actress Tina Aumont. Along for the ride is actor Klaus Kinski as her sleazy outlaw husband and a small cameo by Franco Ressel. With a nice flamenco guitar score by Carlo Rusticelli and beautiful photography by the Director's brother Camillo Bazzoni. it never achieves the epic status that it deserves. The Western action takes second place to the love triangle and tragedies that Carmen puts the soldier through as she slowly destroys his life but its slow in coming. The archivists at Blue Underground have found the original negative and the transfer is flawless in HD 1080p with a 2.35 aspect ratio which looks like it was made yesterday. You can enjoy the English dubbed version or the original Italian track with English, Spanish. or French sub titles. Extras include an audio commentary with 2 journalists Henry Parke and C. Courtney Joyner which I have not heard , a great interview with actor Franco Nero and cameraman Vittorio Storaro in Italian with English sub titles. Nero has great stories on the shoot plus his take on coming to America , Italian and International trailers and a poster and stills gallery. Director Bazzoni would direct Franco Nero again in the excellent Giallo 'THE FIFTH CORD' aka ' GIORNATA NERA PER L'ARIETE'-1971 but this Western only starts cooking at its climax with a brutal fist fight between Kinski and Nero. It's worth it just for that.

A wonderful Spaghetti Western take on "Carmen". Franco Nero is excellent as the tragic soldier Don Jose who falls for the heartless gypsy Carmen (Tina Aumont). The 2.35 widescreen transfer is great and special mention should be made of the effective background score for Spanish guitar and orchestra by Carlo Rustichelli. It greatly inhances the drama of the film as any good movie score should. I've wanted to see this movie for a long time and I wasn't disappointed. There is also a terrific onscreen interview with Nero as an extra.

this is a very cringe fest tale about a simp and his mistress. playing a cookie clicker is a more productive use of your time.

Wow!! Nero is beautiful and sorrowful...Carmen knows how to get the men all up in a roar. Got to read the novella Carmen, the movie basis, now. These actors had good chemistry and plausible in their roles. With a little more time to tell the story, it could be 5 stars.

an oldie but goodie. Not for the modern action film fan, but for those of us who grew up without CGI and expected women to look like real women and the nasty parts to be not so nasty. A classic spaghetti western just fine for those over 40.

I could give it a 3 for being so sad, but it was good movie of a good man gone bad because of a woman. She wove him where he could not get out, she didn't believe he would kill her.

BLUE UNDERGOUND DID ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL RESTORATION AND TRANSFER TO THIS DVD.NO FLAW'S WHAT SO EVER,THAT I COULD FIND.SHARP, VIVID, CLEAR AND PRISTINE.GREATXTRA WITH FRANCO NERO AS WELL.KLAUS KINSKI WAS IN GREAT FORM,BUT TINA AUMONT(CARMEN)ALSO STAR'D IN TEXAS ACROSS THE RIVER WITH DEAN MARTIN,ALAN DELEON AND ANDREW PRIME,STOLE THE SHOW AND DID A GREAT JOB AS CARMEN.KEEP THESE SPAGHETTI WESTERNS COMING BLUE UNDERGROUND.

Awesome cinematography. Every scene like a painting. That's why I wanted to own this film.

this film is a masterpeice of filmaking ,with franco nero and tina aumont on the dvd they say the score is by bruno nicolai wrote the score in fact it was carlo rustichelli composed this beautiful score and nicolai conducted it.the camera work by camilio bazzoni and vitorio stororo is stunning, this must be franco neros top films.

Excelente producto, tiene audio original en inglés e italiano subtitulos en español contenido extra audio comentarios, entrevistas, corto cinematográfico internacional e italiano, tomar en cuenta q el dvd es region 0 osea que no debe tener problemas con la reproducción

i liked the way this film was put together,- great story line, and acting

good thanks .