This was reissued in Italy in Dec 2012, and the Amazon.it listing notes "Inglese" audio along with the two Italian tracks. Is it possible they added the English audio to the reissue? I was thinking of getting this anyway and if the English is not there, syncing it up with the English audio from the U.S. Blu. For some reason though, the Italian BD runs 174mins23secs whilst the US BD runs 178mins41secs. Does anyone know why this is?
The Italian release is from a different source and doesn't have the (unnecessary in my opinion) grotto scene that was added to MGM/Fox versions, hence the shorter running time. The listing on Amazon.it says Audio: English (Unknown), Italian (DTS-HD High Res Audio), Italian (PCM) but their photo of the back shows only Italian so I'm not getting my hopes up
The beating scene is only different for a few seconds towards the end.
I managed to edit the audio track from the MGM BD into a synchronized track for the Mondo. There are lots of minor (and some major) differences between the two versions, it took almost 50 cuts to get it in sync. I placed most of them in spots where you won't notice them. In a couple of cases I had to loop a few frames that where missing on the MGM from adjacent frames. However, the real puzzle was the Tuco torture scene, which for some reason has a totally different order of shots, so I had to rearrange the segments into the order of the Italian version. Since I didn't have the stems, some of the transitions are a bit bumpy as a result, but nothing too jarring (and I tried to smooth it out a bit via crossfading)......Audio/video sync seems to be frame-perfect. One interesting tidbit I noticed while editing is that MGM apparently located a different take of Tuco's last shot, where the english translation syncs a little bit better with the lip movement of Eli Wallach's Italian scream. But of course "dirty bitch" will never quite transition into the final "ayeeh-ayeeh-aaahhh" as nicely as "grandissima puttana
Got mine too. Mine has the new EAN on the back! Except, it doesn't, not really. The old one is still on the case, it's just now covered by the new one on the shrink wrap. Sure enough, the disc has not changed; Italian only. Did we ever really expect any different?
Finally got around to watching this release. I've been saving it until I got I a 1080p tv. I thought it looked much better than the u.s. release. A couple of shots had what looked like faded colors, but they were few and far between. It was glorious really.The grotto scene was not missed.
Sorry I don't have a bluray burner. I'm sure you can locate it online somewhere though. Maybe Lil Brutto can help you. I did waste an invite on him so he could download the movie.