ARROW BLU RAY BOX SET RELEASE: Blood Money: Four Western Classics Vol. 2

I loved Arrow Video’s Vengeance Trails set and am excited that they have released a second series of movies made in the Italian West. The title Blood Money is one that this set lives up to because each of its heroes has a trail of vengeance and pain to ride down, one littered with the bodies of their enemies and loved ones.

Here are the movies in this set:

$10,000 Blood Money: Django (Gianni Garko) is a bounty killer who doesn’t go after any target until they’re worth $10,000. When he meets his latest bounty, Manuel Vasquez (Claudio Camaso), they decide to work together to make even more money and it costs him more than he can even imagine.

Vengeance Is Mine: John Forest (Gianni Garko) has spent ten years in prison for the death of his father, a murder that his half-brother Clint (Claudio Camaso) committed. Now a bounty hunter, he decides to go after his sibling but promises his dying mother that he will bring him in alive and never take the first shot at him.

Find a Place To Die: Lisa (Pascale Petit) escapes with her life while her geologist husband does not. She hires Collins (Jeffrey Hunter), a former Confederate officer, and another gang to gain revenge. But all that gold that Lisa and her husband had found — plus her beauty — put everyone against each other.

Matalo! (Kill Him)One of the weirdest Italian Westerns, Matalo! is the only one I’ve seen with a boomerang shot from the POV. Claudia Gravy is also an absolute force of savagery in this, an anger-filled monster tougher than any of the men.

As always with Arrow, the quality of these films, the extras and the packaging are at the absolute peak of anything else out there. This is honestly a perfect release for me. Although I may have many of these movies, they’re the exact opposite of the quality here, all packed together on old DVD 50 packs. Seeing them in these new transfers is almost like watching an entirely new set of movies.

The Arrow Blood Money: Four Western Classics Vol. 2 set has 2K restorations of all four films from the original 35mm camera negatives by Arrow Films, original Italian and English front and end titles, restored lossless original Italian and English soundtracks, English subtitles for the Italian soundtracks, brand new introductions to each film by journalist and critic Fabio Melelli, galleries for all four films, an illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing by author and critic Howard Hughes, a fold-out double-sided poster featuring newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx and limited edition packaging with reversible sleeves featuring original artwork and a slipcover featuring newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx.

You can get it from MVD.

All four movies are also available on the ARROW player. Head over to ARROW to start your 30-day free trial (subscriptions are available for $4.99 monthly or $49.99 yearly). ARROW is available in the US, Canada and the UK on the following Apps/devices: Roku (all Roku sticks, boxes, devices, etc), Apple TV & iOS devices, Android TV and mobile devices, Fire TV (all Amazon Fire TV Sticks, boxes, etc), and on all web browsers at https://www.arrow-player.com.