The Road to Fort Alamo (1964) Malombra Films

[T4ffer]

Originally Posted by WarByakhee

Yikes. I still see my order status only as "Placed" on my page on the Malombra's website. I guess I'll shoot an email

For what it's worth, the Malombra website shows that I don't even have any orders. (I have received Sex of Angels about a year ago)

[Django100]

Despite the e-mail they sent I have heard nothing since.

[Katatonia]

Diabolik now have it in stock: https://diabolikdvd.com/product/le-s...ay-all-region/

[T4ffer]

Mine is still in Italy as of yesterday, but moved from Rome to Milan. Can't wait to finally watch this later this week or the next.

[drush9999]

Mine's "departed from the International Exchange Center"

[drush9999]

Received mine this morning finally:



Slip comes flattened in it's own plastic.

[T4ffer]

Finally ! I'm probably getting it next week then, but I'll be away most of it so on the trip I'll be anxious to come back to this, Arrow's Conans, and more.

[drush9999]

Checked out the PQ, it's pretty good for the most part except the dupey parts like the initial titles. Sound is rough, but serviceable.

[T4ffer]

It's in the local sorting centre! Super excited to check out a Mario Bava film I haven't seen before and with a pretty good PQ! I will probably watch it the day it arrives.

[Django100]

I got an e-mail last Thursday to say it was shipping. Not much point in checking the Italian site it's not in English!

[T4ffer]

Well... it's kind of shit, isn't it?

The think I like best about this release is the artwork. There rest:

- PQ is good for the most part, but some sections have seen so much damage that it seems it wasn't fully possible to restore, plus the restoration seems to have left weird artifacts behind. Seems like the label took on more work than they were realistically able to do properly.

- Audio is bad, and also maybe has a too great of a dynamic range? Not sure, but initially I had to turn it down and later I had to turn it up in more quiet sections, resulting in very loud noisy parts later.

- The movie itself is ... a Mario Bava western. A great director of gothic horror and even thrillers, but no eye for westerns at all. Both the westerns (or were there more?) and his Dr. Goldfoot movie are his worst.

- The extras are ... bad. Only 11 or so minutes in total (8 + 3) barely going into any detail that isn't obvious. Filmed as what seems like a single shot, not well lit, edited really badly, with jarringly timed burned in subtitles.

I think I'm done with this label until they prove they deserve my attention.

But nevertheless I'm very glad to own another Bava movie.

[gekats]

Originally Posted by T4ffer

The movie itself is ... a Mario Bava western. A great director of gothic horror and even thrillers, but no eye for westerns at all. Both the westerns (or were there more?) and his Dr. Goldfoot movie are his worst.

There is another one, Ringo del Nebraska, (not sure of the extent of his involvement) credited to Antonio Roman. Like Fort Alamo, Koch had released it as part of their Spaghetti western DVD series as Nebraska Jim, which was how I intially viewed these films. Another really bland, american-style early euro-western. At least, Fort Alamo has some trademark lighting schemes in the night scenes and is the best of the three, Roy Colt being the worst in my opinion.

Must be one of the few who actually enjoyed Dr. Goldfoot?

[Django100]

Yay me! Got the disc through today. Looking forward to watching it.

[Rebastion]

Finishing my review for the SWDb right now, probably publishing it tomorrow. There's really only a 5min stretch in the middle where PQ drops markedly, the rest is okay, but features Malombra's signature "I am watching this with my sunglasses on" color balance, and there's plenty of shots that look mediocre. Overall satisfactory, and there's an audio commentary and some interviews. The audio isn't great, that's true, but if you watch a lot of average and sub average spaghetti westerns, like I do, you'll know this is pretty much the common standard. I hope they up their restoration game at Malombra, I am always happy with niche films getting their due on HD, and for a tiny label this really isn't too bad.

[Jamiouse]

Has there been any updates from Malombra regarding upcoming titles or are they done?