Great film, completely agree marvellous spaghetti western. Its funny sometimes with actors too, how you dont know them and then they pop up all over. Enrico Maria Salerno playing Richard Martin absolutely great performance. He's also the detective in Bird with the crystal plummage and the father in Night train murders which i watched last night. Fantastic italian actor. Great film all round this. gonna watch it again soon
It was the staging of the shots that I found particularly impressive. Just masterfully done. The dolly down the train. The spiralling backdrops or the people just in the background. It all looked amazing.
I was previously well aware of Massimo Dallamano's great gialli and fun Euro crime movies but never caught Bandidos until this evening. And wow! As you say, Graham, a fantastic western that constantly changes tack and soooo stylishly filmed. Enrico Maria Salerno is superb, as always. With this and a rewatch of the sublime High Plains Drifter the other day, I now need to set aside more time for Westerns. Hell, I even enjoyed My Name is Pecos from the VT box-set.
So glad to here you liked this one, the score, cinematography and acting are all amazing. Pleased as well that you liked Pecos, cause I loved that one.
It’s a great set, I would like to see a second volume, with Fulci’s Four of the Apocalypse and maybe Cut-throats Nine, and a couple of others, there are plenty of great Spaghetti Westerns that have not had a Blu Ray release.
Cool movie. The censorship involving 2 cuts to black at the start of the movie due to horse related bizniz was absolute hogwash. Even if the bbfc imposed those cuts, Arrow could have handled them with respect.
I heard this is the best one of the set. Great review - absolutely sold me on these just like the Karloff set. If there is a Vengeance Trails 2 set, any titles you’d like?
@@manvfilm this is never going to happen but it would be cool if Arrow did a Django Collection set with all the unofficial Django films. It would shock the hell out of me tho😂
Mehhhhh. I do love that you can just talk about the story, you were fully into it from the start obviously. Not me. I thought the opening was so poor. Not the idea, not the setting, but the actual portrayal of events. Like, I understand to take these things with a grain of salt. But some things just keep me from getting submerged by the film. Dudes on the train have rifles, versus some bandits with pistols on horses. Now I am no expert but I'd say being on the train with a rifle is the better place to be. Yet, not one bandit gets shot while the chase is on and every dude with a rifle and or gun on the train gets taken out. It feels a bit amateuristic to me. Then when Billy Kane figures out who's shooting, he says to this chubby mexican to tell his men to stop shooting, he then tells a dude next to them, and he just steps 10cm to the side and yells stop shooting. Bruhh delegating is one thing, but that's just stupid. Made me laugh though. Looked great, shouldve been great, was decent. So, as of now, this is my least favorite so far in the set. It needed Franco Nero. Pecos still reigns so far. I'm hoping Kinski will save the day.
Great film, completely agree marvellous spaghetti western. Its funny sometimes with actors too, how you dont know them and then they pop up all over. Enrico Maria Salerno playing Richard Martin absolutely great performance. He's also the detective in Bird with the crystal plummage and the father in Night train murders which i watched last night. Fantastic italian actor.
Great film all round this. gonna watch it again soon
It was the staging of the shots that I found particularly impressive. Just masterfully done. The dolly down the train. The spiralling backdrops or the people just in the background. It all looked amazing.
I was previously well aware of Massimo Dallamano's great gialli and fun Euro crime movies but never caught Bandidos until this evening. And wow! As you say, Graham, a fantastic western that constantly changes tack and soooo stylishly filmed. Enrico Maria Salerno is superb, as always. With this and a rewatch of the sublime High Plains Drifter the other day, I now need to set aside more time for Westerns. Hell, I even enjoyed My Name is Pecos from the VT box-set.
So glad to here you liked this one, the score, cinematography and acting are all amazing.
Pleased as well that you liked Pecos, cause I loved that one.
Sou brasileiro e estou de acordo. Eu diria que este spaghetti tem duas aberturas, uma inovação de Dallamano.
It’s a great set, I would like to see a second volume, with Fulci’s Four of the Apocalypse and maybe Cut-throats Nine, and a couple of others, there are plenty of great Spaghetti Westerns that have not had a Blu Ray release.
After this set, I am craving more.
Totally agree a great movie hooked me also, bought it on Dvd a few years back, now own it in this box set but yet to watch it on Blu Ray.
It looks great. This was an amazing set where the films just got better and better.
I still say massacre time is my favourite of the four but all very good spaghetti westerns
I think my favourite is Pecos, the best film is Cain. Well that’s my take anyway.
Cool movie. The censorship involving 2 cuts to black at the start of the movie due to horse related bizniz was absolute hogwash. Even if the bbfc imposed those cuts, Arrow could have handled them with respect.
I heard this is the best one of the set.
Great review - absolutely sold me on these just like the Karloff set.
If there is a Vengeance Trails 2 set, any titles you’d like?
I’d say the last two titles are the best in the set.
I’d like more titles I’ve never heard of before. I want to be surprised by forgotten classics.
@@manvfilm this is never going to happen but it would be cool if Arrow did a Django Collection set with all the unofficial Django films.
It would shock the hell out of me tho😂
That would be a cool set, got to think the licensing would be a nightmare from all the different rights owners.
Mehhhhh. I do love that you can just talk about the story, you were fully into it from the start obviously. Not me. I thought the opening was so poor. Not the idea, not the setting, but the actual portrayal of events. Like, I understand to take these things with a grain of salt. But some things just keep me from getting submerged by the film.
Dudes on the train have rifles, versus some bandits with pistols on horses. Now I am no expert but I'd say being on the train with a rifle is the better place to be. Yet, not one bandit gets shot while the chase is on and every dude with a rifle and or gun on the train gets taken out. It feels a bit amateuristic to me.
Then when Billy Kane figures out who's shooting, he says to this chubby mexican to tell his men to stop shooting, he then tells a dude next to them, and he just steps 10cm to the side and yells stop shooting. Bruhh delegating is one thing, but that's just stupid. Made me laugh though.
Looked great, shouldve been great, was decent.
So, as of now, this is my least favorite so far in the set. It needed Franco Nero. Pecos still reigns so far. I'm hoping Kinski will save the day.
In all honesty I never thought about those. You can be sure I will next time I watch it. See how it affects my watching.