Arizona Colt Returns

Mya Communications has come through once again with this enjoyable release from director Sergio Martino. Not quite as good as his other Spaghetti,'MANNAJA-A MAN CALLED BLADE', it shows his incredible, visual panache and excellent balance of gallows humor and biting grit. This film could be a direct sequel to Michele Lupo's 1966 release 'ARIZONA COLT' also released by Wild East Productions as 'THE MAN FROM NOWHERE'. Guiliano Gemma played the hero in that one and the always excellent Anthony Steffen steps into his boots in this entry. Some of the same actors appear in this one as well, Roberto Camardiel plays the side kick 'Double Whiskey', Jose Manuel Martin shows off his same sour puss and the breathtaking Rosalba Neri plays both sides of good and bad with her usual aplomb. Aldo Sambrell gives his character just the right touch of sneering villainy as Keene, Arizona's old nemesis from the past. It boasts a screenplay from Ernesto Gastaldi who helmed some of the best Giallo and Italian Horror films of the sixties. Keene frames Arizona by accusing him of horse thievery thereby concocting a plan along with a wealthy ranchers daughter to have Arizona put to death and steal a fortune in gold so they can live happily ever after but Arizona has other plans. The only thorn in the side is the uneven music score by Morricone alumnus Bruno Nicolai who gives the film a ridiculous theme song which shows up at the most uneventful times and yet sprinkles some suspenseful and rousing passages as if there were two different scores for two separate films. The box lists an aspect ratio of 2.35 but it really is 1.85 with a sharp,clean picture and good Italian soundtrack with English subtitles. Its a great movie for anyone who loves Westerns and shows that Sergio Martino deserves more accolades as one of Italy's best directors.

This movie is in a different language than English I was very very dissapointed i would like to have it in English

A early 70's Euro-made, Italian-language western with optional sub-titles (aka Arizona Colt Hired Gun) is about a somewhat dirty and sweaty good guy saddle tramp who is accused of a crime by a gang of ruthless bad guys who want a clear field to the West. The film has a silly theme song.The MYA DVD is very good quality. The transfer is clear and the color is beautiful. Recommended for Spaghetti Western fans.

Give it a 2 star only because box says english and italian mono but only italian language is available, and there is no way to bring up any other language Does have english subtitles.

ARIZONA COLT RETURNS (aka Arizona Lets Fly and Kills Everybody; Arizona; If You Gotta Shoot Someone...Bang! Bang!; Arizona Colt Si Scatena...E Li Fece Fuori Tutti) is first and foremost a very entertaining movie. The unfailing combination of solid plot, humor, irony, excellent performances and explicit violence make this one of the better Italo westerns.Anthony Steffen ( Antonio de Teffe), the star, was the perfect cinematic gunslinger.

Didn't watch.

Must watch again

I enjoy spaghetti westerns. They are very different than the American westerns, the actors, their facial expressions, the humor, the action, the music, the dress. In this film, Arizona Colt is blamed for a murder he did not commit and is sentenced to be hung. He is saved by his sidekick who is a drunk, who drinks so much that although he received three gunshot wounds, all of which the doctor said is mortal, he survives.Arizona meets a beautiful woman and tells her and her father that he will marry her and have six sons.A bad man with a gang of about two dozen kidnap the daughter of a friend of Arizona and the friend requests that Arizona get her back. Neither the father nor Arizona know that the daughter is in love with the bandit chief.Arizona steals a huge amount of gold from the bandit chief and is captured by him. He refuses to reveal where he hid the gold, so the bandit chief captures the woman who Arizona wants to marry to force Arizona to reveal the whereabouts of the gold.Arizona needs to fight against the two dozen bandits with only a pistol that doesn't seem to run out of bullets until it does, after virtually all, but not all, of the bandits are killed.The film ends with Arizona and his sidekick riding off into the sunset with a boy calling after him as a boy did in the famed Shane movie.