Companeros

Starring:Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Fernando Rey, Iris Berben, JosÃ© BÃ³dalo, Eduardo Fajardo, Karin Schubert, Gino Pernice, Ãlvaro de Luna, JesÃºs FernÃ¡ndez, Claudio Scarchilli, Lorenzo Robledo, Giovanni Petrucci, GÃ©rard Tichy, Gianni Pulone, Jack Palance, VÃctor Israel, SimÃ³n Arriaga, Tito GarcÃa, Vicente Roca
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Studio: Anchor Bay
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

if you like spaghetti westerns... you best be owning this box, yo!
5 classic Spaghetti Westerns given the Anchor Bay treatment!!!
a great collection of spaghetti westerns and all widescreen
Good Collection of Italian Westerns
terrific quality

Once Upon a Time in Italy - The Spaghetti Western Collection (A Bullet for the General / Companeros / Four of the Apocalypse / Keoma / Texas Adios)
Starring: Gian Maria Volontè , Klaus Kinski , Martine Beswick , Lou Castel , and Jaime Fernández (II)
Director: Damiano Damiani , Lucio Fulci , and Enzo G. Castellari
Manufacturer: Anchor Bay
ProductGroup: DVD
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Description

Once Upon A Time In Italy, a generation of visionary filmmakers hijacked the genre of the American Western. Suddenly, standard stories of cowboys and Indians became a hyper-stylized opera of immoral heroes, ruthless action and extreme violence. These startling new films became known as Spaghetti Westerns, and movies have never looked or sounded the same since!

In BULLET FOR THE GENERAL, Gian Maria VolantE9 (of A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS fame) co-stars with Klaus Kinski in one of the most politically daring and viciously intense westerns ever made. The legendary Franco Nero stars in TEXAS ADIOS, a tale of lawmen out for justice where vengeance knows no borders. And Spaghetti Western icon Tomas Milian stars with Fabio Testi and Michael J. Pollard in FOUR OF THE APOCALYPSE, the brutal revenge epic directed by Maestro Of Gore Lucio Fulci. The action-packed COMPAD1EROS brings together superstars Tomas Milian and Franco Nero for the first time ever, along with acclaimed director Sergio Corbucci (DJANGO), a stunning score by Ennio Morricone and a jaw-dropping performance by Jack Palance. Franco Nero returns in the mind-blowing KEOMA, directed by Enzo Castellari and considered to be the last true masterpiece of the entire genre. These five classic films are all presented totally uncut, uncensored and loaded with exclusive Extras for the absolute ultimate in Spaghetti Western mayhem!

Customer Reviews:

if you like spaghetti westerns... you best be owning this box, yo!.......2007-05-13

5 awesome westrns, my personal favortie is 'Bullet for the General" but they are ALLL GOOOOOOD. So c'mon, Vamos a Matar Compañeros!!!

5 classic Spaghetti Westerns given the Anchor Bay treatment!!!.......2007-03-29

If you like Spaghetti Westerns,you'll love this great 5-DVD Box Set from Anchor Bay Entertainment!!! "Once Uopn A Time In Italy" includes beautiful film transfers of "A Bullet for the General","Companeros","Four of the Apocalypse","Keoma" and "Texas Adios" all in the original widescreen ratios!!! Plus some great DVD extras!!! Two thumbs up!!! Five stars!!! A+

a great collection of spaghetti westerns and all widescreen.......2006-05-06

as i have said before i love westerns and i love spaghetti westerns also. the five movies here are among some of the best.the extras for this set are very good and there are plenty of them.
1.a bullet for the general=5 stars
2.companeros=4 stars
3.four of the apocalypse=3 stars
4.keoma=4 stars
5.texas adios=5 stars

Good Collection of Italian Westerns.......2005-06-25

According to British author Christopher Frayling in his biography of director Sergio Leone, in the wake of the international success of "A Fistful of Dollars" the Italian film industry spawned dozens of "spaghetti" westerns. I don't know if the collection represented here are the best of the bunch but they are a decent cross-section of the genre. Though none of these film's approach the masterworks of Leone they, for the most part, distinguish themselves stylistically from Leone's work. What is also interesting is that Franco Nero is the star of three of these entries but shows range by assaying different character types in each of them.
"A Bullet for the General"-Tale of Mexican banditos led by Gian Maria Volonte in a robust performance. Events and the arrival of a mysterious American cause Volonte to question his mercenary mindset. Film has an interesting political bent. Four stars.
"Companeros"-Lighthearted story of Swedish gunrunner(Nero) and Mexican mercenary(Tomas Milian) who form an uneasy alliance to free socialist professor(Fernando Rey) from American prison and bring back to Mexico so he can reveal the combination of an impregnable safe containing a fortune. Film also has a socialist bent but it's not too heavy-handed. Jack Palance has a creepy turn as an American bounty hunter. Four stars.
"Four of the Apocalypse"-This is probably the most enigmatic of the bunch. Film concerns a circumstantial alliance between a card shark, a pregnant prostitute, a drunk, and a man who claims to commune with the dead set in Utah. Though the film contains some poignant scenes there are also scenes of gratuitous violence that to me nullify the film's attributes. Judge for yourself. Three stars.
"Keoma"-Moody film about a half-breed gunslinger (Nero) returning from the Civil War to find his town overrun by the plague and controlled by a despot. Excellent character study and example of Nero's range as an actor. Four stars.
"Texas, Adios"-Probably the film most reminiscent stylistically to Leone but the most conventional. Story concerns Texas lawman (Nero) travelling to Mexico with his brother to apprehend the man who killed his father. Nero is solid but the story is kind of routine. Three stars.

terrific quality.......2005-03-25

If you've been exploring the world of spaghetti westerns at all, you've no doubt come across some pretty poor transfers. Stuff obviously made from worn out, scratched up and dirty film. You often have to be philosophical about it -- if you want to see some of these old movies, it's a matter of putting up with the ragged quality or do without. This set from Anchor Bay, on the other hand, is really something. They have done a fantastic job of restoring and transferring. The extra features are really nice as well -- interviews with Tomas Milian and Franco Nero. None of these movies is going to replace The Good the Bad & the Ugly as my all time favorite movie, but I really enjoyed getting to see them. I highly recommend this set.

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Companeros
Starring: Tomas Milian , Franco Nero , Jack Palance , Fernando Rey , and Karin Schubert
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Manufacturer: Blue Underground
ProductGroup: DVD
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Description

Fate brought them together... Greed made them inseparable... Violence made them COMPAÃ`EROS!

Yodlaf Peterson ( Franco Nero of KEOMA) is a suave Swedish arms dealer with a love for fast money. Vasco ( Tomas Milian of TRAFFIC) is a trigger-happy Mexican bandit with a hate for suave Swedish arms dealers. But when the two team up to kidnap a professor who holds the key to a fortune in gold, they find themselves hunted by the American army, stalked by a marijuana-crazed sadist (Academy AwardÂ® winner Jack Palance) and trapped in the middle of a revolution about to explode. Can these two enemies blast their way across Mexico together without killing each other first?

Customer Reviews:

Good film, but not a comedy as described.......2007-04-01

Ok, it had a couple of funny moments but that's it. I like the action and the combination of Tomas Millian and Franco Nero is cool!! I reccomend it for Spargetti Western fans!! A lot of familiar faces too. "Vamos a matar Companeros" is a neat song that will stick to you.

Companeros.......2006-11-15

Hi

This is a poor film. Django will always be the yardstick. And this fails the test.

Mexican Standoff.......2005-10-12

Many spaghetti western enthusiasts regard this as a classic of the genre and Sergio Corbucci's best film. They're wrong. "Companeros" is actually at a midpoint on the director's career trajectory from early classics like "Django" and "The Hellbenders" to late-period disasters like "Sonny & Jed" and "The White, the Yellow and the Black." The film is basically a half-baked rehash of "The Mercenary/A Professional Gun", with nothing like the former film's coherence or momentum. It takes far too long to get going, then rambles on with no sense of structure or pace, trying uneasily to mix broad comedy, political comment and Peckinpah-inspired action scenes. There are a few good jokes along the way, and the protagonists are so off-the-wall that they're curiously engaging, but it all pales in comparison to the best spaghettis of the 60s, not to mention contemporary work like Ferdinando Baldi's deranged but stunning "Blindman."

Visually, the film benefits from an excellent widescreen transfer, which is a relief after the hideously panned-and-scanned video we had to put up with previously, and there's a restored prologue which isn't in any English language version. The extras include amiable interviews with Franco Nero and especially Tomas Milian, plus Ennio Morricone explaining how the cacophonous music score was composed (though it isn't one of his best, I have to say).

When I first saw "Companeros" 20 years ago, I very much enjoyed it. But it weakens with each viewing, and even this fine version can't restore the shine.

Jack Palance As A Psychotic Giggling Stoner??.......2005-06-04

Wow! You get Franco Nero(Django) and Tomas Milian(Django Kill) and the immortal Jack Palance in one film! And a fun film at that! Both leads have good chemistry. They basically get hooked into crossing the Mexican border into the U.S. to snag a guy who has the combination to a safe they need opened. Nero and Milian don't like each other much, but have to learn to work together. On their tail is that crazy Jack Palance, who's hellbent on seeing Nero dead, Dead, DEAD! Palance has a joint in his mouth in practically every one of his scenes, and he's quite funny in his giggly, stoned and creepy performance. This is very much a "buddy movie" like 48 Hrs or Lethal Weapon with the two leads who don't always like each other, exchange some funny lines and ultimately become friends. Because of this, the tone of the film is more comedic than the average spaghetti western. Don't let the lighthearted tone stop you from seeing it though coz it's still got the violence of a spaghetti western. In fact, it's actually bloodier than Django. Also, Ennio Morricone's theme song will get stuck in your head for a good day or two. Very highly recommended if you dig westerns.

My favorit western movie.......2005-04-19

Let me begin by saying, that the last time I saw this movie I was 8 years old in 1985, and I still remember every detail, the music, the villain, the gun fights and that freaking hawk. I told my father that this was one of the best movies and he said "of course, it's Franco Nero".

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