Complete Sartana, The (Blu-ray)

Clint Eastwoods Man with No Name spawned imitations, variations and shameless rip-offs keen to emulate his success at the box office. Within months of A Fistful of Dollars release, Giuliano Gemma was playing Ringo, who was then followed by Franco Neros Django, Tony Anthonys The Stranger and Gianni Garkos Sartana each providing their own twist on the Eastwood antihero, and each of them then subject to their own spate of unofficial sequels, spoofs and cash-ins.Sartana tapped into more than just his Spaghetti Western predecessors a mysterious figure, he has a spectral quality, aided by his Count Dracula-like cloak which also nods towards comic strip figure Mandrake the Magician, with whom he shares a penchant for card tricks. He takes pride in his appearance unlike the Eastwoods dusty wanderer or Neros mud-caked drifter. And theres a dose of James Bond too in his fondness for gadgetry and the droll sense of humor.Unsurprisingly, this unique figure in the genre was treated to four offici