Kino Classics has officially announced that it will release on Blu-ray the restored director's cut of David Leeds' 1978 counter-culture Western
Shoot the Sun Down, starring Christopher Walken, Margot Kidder, Geoffrey Lewis and A Martinez. The release will be available for purchase on November 12th.
The same year that Christopher Walken won an Oscar for
The Deer Hunter (1978) and Margot Kidder was whisked away in
Superman (1978), they starred in the electic counterculture Western
Shoot the Sun Down. A stylized meditation on America's history of violence, in the tradition of Sergio Leone (
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly), it observes the intersection of a former Confederate soldier-turned-bounty hunter (Walken), a British maidservant desperate to escape indentured servitude (Kidder), and a vicious mercenary in search of Native American scalps and Montezuma's gold (Geoffrey Lewis).
Never released on DVD or Blu-ray until now,
Shoot the Sun Down is a hallucinatory Western long overdue for rediscovery.
Special Features:
- Alternate opening title sequence featuring an original song
composed and performed by Kinky Friedman
- Original theatrical trailer