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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0827058103893
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Blue Underground
Manufacturer: Blue Underground
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Blue Underground
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 27, 2004
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 48754
Studio: Blue Underground
Theatrical Release Date: 1977
Editorial Review:
Description:
ONE OF THE LAST GREAT 'SPAGHETTI WESTERNS' - NOW TOTALLY UNCUT AND UNCENSORED!
Maurizio Merli (the iconic star of the 70s Italian cop movies) stars as a hatchet-wielding bounty hunter with a dark past and an even more desperate future. But when he disrupts the balance of power in a corrupt mining town, he unleashes a firestorm of brutality, betrayal and cold-blooded murder. Now, on man stalks a savage land where justice walks a razor and no bullets slice deeper than vengeance. He is A MAN CALLED BLADE.
John Steiner (SALON KITTY, CALIGULA) and Donal O'Brien (RUN MAN RUN, KEOMA) co-star in this muddy, bloody and extreme 'Spaghetti Western' that is truly a cut above the rest. Co-written and directed by the notorious Sergio Martino (TORSO, MOUNTAIN OF THE CANNIBAL GOD), MANNAJA: A MAN CALLED BLADE has been fully restored from original Italian vault materials including its infamous 'eyeball torture' scenes.
Amazon.com:
They call him Blade (Maurizio Merli) because mostly he lets his hatchet do his talking for him. He's searched 20 years to find the man responsible for his father's death. This is puzzling, since the guy is right where he always was and where Blade started from. The real villain of the piece is not this economic-ecological despoiler (Philippe Leroy), a shrunken husk in a wheelchair, but his lieutenant (John Steiner), a blond fascist who looks like a twit version of Rutger Hauer and sounds like a cross between John Glover and the police chief in Young Frankenstein. (Blade is also blond, with a hairdo reminiscent of Pippi Longstocking's.) Sergio Martino, whose action direction is ludicrous, was obliged to fill many scenes with fog because the last Western town set in Italy was falling down around him. This was, he claims, 'the last, or maybe next-to-last' spaghetti Western. None too soon. --Richard T. Jameson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Blue Underground is the Best!
I just received this title and boy! I am impressed! The transfer quality is FLAWLESS! The packaging is bee-yoo-tiful! After being burned on horrible, horrible' horrible quality transfers of spaghetti westerns released by Mill Creek Entertainment and Good Times Video, I am pleased I turned to Blue Underground!!! They are the answer to my fetish for Italian Films!!!
Rating: - A True Italian Western
"A Man Called Blade" is probably the most perfect, textbook western film of the 70s. It has a "good" soundtrack, beautiful settings, smart and stupid bad guys, and a great protagonist. Merli is different from most western heroes, he seems like a nice fur trapper or mountain man, but he is very good at what he does,killing people. There is not much to criticize here. This is a fun, action packed, traditional Italian western
R.I.P Mr Merli
Rating:  - Want an entertaining Italian Western...look no further!
A man is running through swampy land through mist and trees. Behind him, riding in slow motion comes our "iconic" anti-hero. The man keeps slipping but eventually turns to shoot at the slow motion hero on a horse. He barley raises his hand when our hero throws a hatchet that in turns slices the mans arm right off.
Yes, that is the opening of Mannaja (aka A Man Called Blade), and from that violent opening sequence, you know the film could only come from Italy. Oh Spaghetti films hold ... Read More
Rating:  - Mama Mia! Last Charge of the Spaghetti Western
This review refers to "Mannaja - A Man Called Blade"(DVD/Blue Underground)
I am a lover of the Spaghetti Western. They have ranged from graphically violent to campy and comedy.They have a style of filming that makes them distinguishable from any other Western. By 1977 they had seen their day come and go. So "Mannaja", was one of the last of it's kind, and gives the genre one heck of a send off! It's a brutal look at the West,and it's action packed(and even has a little romance,but just ... Read More
Rating: - Mannaja Trois!
"Blade" is a hatchet wielding badazz mofo bounty hunter who prances into a town run by a rich tyrant who has the entire town working in his silver mine. Blade's an all around do-gooder but is also looking to settle a score with this tyrant. Blade manages to piss of the villians about two seconds after setting foot in town, and the showdown begins. Needless to say this film is hardly original. When viewing this film I can't stress enough to NOT expect anything remotely like Leone. I think that's ... Read More
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