GRAND DUEL & KEOMA (blu-ray) *NEW* spaghetti and 12 similar items

Brand new factory sealed blu-ray of a spaghetti western double feature. Out Of Print (OOP) and no longer being manufactured. GRAND DUEL: Lee Van Cleef is an ex-sheriff who saves an innocent young fugitive, Philip, from bounty hunters several times. A bisexual(?) killer dressed in all white clothes is the brother of the sheriff. The Saxons believe Philip murdered their father, a brutal man known as the "Patriarch". Together, the two make their way to Saxon City, where they can confront the three powerful Saxon brothers. There are B W flashbacks, a machine-gun massacre, and kung fu movie-style leaps in the air. In the end, the surprising truth about the Patriarch's killing is revealed. Masterfully directed by Giancarlo Santi (Sergio Leone's assistant director), the Grand Duel is constructed more like a crime thriller than a western. With a fantastic music score that rivals the best of Morricone's compositions. KEOMA: Franco Nero is the halfbreed who lives in self imposed-exile from his past as the bastard son of rancher William Shannon, whose three "real" sons--Butch, Lenny, and Cham--abused him as a child and now work as gunmen in support of their town's fascist leader, Caldwell. Keoma re-enters their lives when he disrupts their wagon removal of some plague-afflicted folk from the town and rescues the pregnant widow of a man shot during an escape attempt. Keoma takes the woman back to town, forcing the frantic townsfolk to feed and accept her. There, he discovers George (Woody Strode), a black farmhand who helped to raise him, a once heroic archer now given over to alcoholism. Both men are hated by the townspeople for their otherness, but in time, Keoma's proud and able resistence helps George to summon the strength to redeem himself. Caldwell eventually declares war on the troublemakers, in a challenge spearheaded by the brothers Shannon, who in turn see an opportunity to get both Keoma and Caldwell out of the way. Saturated in a doomed and gloomy psychedelic atmosphere KEOMA is a powerful combination of existential symbolism and unrelenting violence--mesmerizing, mystical, and musical, it is one of the unforgettable Italian Westerns.