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 Dollars’ release, 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 subject to their own spate of unofficial sequels, spoofs and cash-ins.

Sartana tapped into more than just his Spaghetti Western predecessors – a mysterious figure, he has a spectral quality, aided by his Count Dracula-alike cloak which also nods towards comic strip figure Mandrake the Magician, with whom he shares a penchant for card tricks. He takes pride in his appearance unlike the Eastwood’s dusty wanderer or Nero’s mud-caked drifter. And there’s a dose of James Bond too in his fondness for gadgetry and the droll sense of humour.

Unsurprisingly, this unique figure in the genre was treated to four official follow-ups. The Complete Sartana collects all five films, presented here in brand-new restorations: If You Meet Sartana… Pray for Your Death, I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death, Have a Good Funeral My Friend… Sartana Will Pay, Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming, and Sartana’s Here… Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin, in which George Hilton replaced Garko in the lead role.

The Complete Sartana Limited Edition Box Set can be ordered at Amazon.

This title will be released on June 26, 2018.

The Complete Sartana collects all five films, presented here in brand-new restorations:

If You Meet Sartana… Pray for Your Death

I Am Sartana, Your Angel of 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, in which George Hilton replaced Garko in the lead role.

SPECS

Director: Gianfranco Parolini, Giuliano Carnimeo

Starring: Gianni Garko, George Hilton, William Berger, Klaus Kinski

Country: USA

Production Year: 1978

Discs: 5-Disc Limited Edition Blu-ray

Region: Free

Run Time: 97 minutes

Formats: NTSC; Anamorphic Widescreen

Language: English

Subtitle: English

Studio: Arrow Video

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS