Cauldron Films: Convoy Busters and Shanghai Joe Prepped for Blu-ray
Posted August 26, 2022 05:27 PM by Webmaster
Cauldron Films has announced that it will release on Blu-ray Stelvio Massi's Convoy Busters (1978) and Mario Caiano's Shanghai Joe (1973). Currently, the two releases are scheduled to arrive on the market on November 29.
Label description: After brandishing his gun and badge too many times in front of powerful people, Maurizio Merli (Violent Naples and The Cynic, The Rat, and The Fist) is busted down from Homicide to Emergency Squad. Despite his demotion, he is not content with letting Rome's criminal element run rampant and his violent nature soon finds him the target of both the press and the local mob. After a bloody attempt on his life, he is transferred to a quiet coastal town to run a local department but, never one to leave things alone, he quickly finds a dangerous smuggling ring is using the cover of the sea and darkness to run their operations in his sleepy district.
With it's daring stunt work, violent shoot-outs, and split storyline, featuring a Stelvio Cipriani (Colt 38 Special Squad) score with excellent performances from Olga Karlatos (Zombie, Purple Rain) Massimo Serrato (Autopsy, Don't Look Now) and Italian cinema stalwart Mimmo Palmara (Violent Rome, Sicilian Connection) Convoy Busters ranks highly among the 70s Italian Crime Genre.
Cauldron Films presents Stelvio Massi's (Emergency Squad, The Last Round) high octane poliziotteschi Convoy Busters on Blu-ray featuring a 2K restoration from the negative with both English and Italian audio options and fully loaded with brand new and archival extras!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 2K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
ORIGINAL ENGLISH AND ITALIAN AUDIO, WITH OPTIONAL ENGLISH AND ENGLISH SDH SUBTITLES
NEW Maurizio Merli: A Lethal Hunter of Subtle Variation with tough-guy film expert Mike Malloy
NEW My Father, the Cop: Interview with Maurizio Matteo Merli
NEW The Massi Touch: Interview with Danilo Massi
NEW Stelvio Massi video tribute by Danilo Massi
NEW Stelvio Massi Image gallery
NEW Audio Commentary by Mike Malloy & Mike Martinez
Alternate "Convoy Busters" title sequence
A Star Was Born - A conversation with journalist Eolo Capacci
Bullet in the Closet - A conversation with director Ruggero Deodato
ER Prota - A conversation with director Enzo G Castellari
Merli on Merli - a conversation with actor Maurizio Matteo Merli
My Good Fella Maurizio - A conversation with actor Enio Girolami
Maurizio Merli image gallery
Italian Trailer
International English trailer
Poster (folded) - limited edition only
High quality slipcase w/ artwork by Haunt Love - limited edition only
Label description: Chin Hao (Chen Lee/Myoshin Hayakawa), arrives in America looking for a better life, only to be faced with locals that don't take kindly to outsiders. Much to their surprise, Chin is not your average drifter as he rips his way through racist bad guys with his unstoppable fighting techniques. After word of his skills spreads, he gets a job at a ranch only to find that the owner, Stanley Spencer, is a cattle smuggling slave trader who brutalizes Mexican farmers and anyone else who dares get in his way. Chin ramps up the violence as he stops at nothing to free the slaves and enact revenge on the sadistic Spencer.
Brilliantly directed by Mario Caiano (Nightmare Castle) and influencing modern films like Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, Shanghai Joe is a must have for fans of fast paced, bloody, action packed Westerns and Kung Fu films of the 70s. Loaded with practical gore effects and bone breaking fight choreography, Shanghai Joe also features a rogues' gallery of genre legends such as Klaus Kinski (Jack the Ripper), Gordon Mitchell (Endgame), Robert Hundar (Sabata), Giacomo Rossi Stuart (The Crimes of the Black Cat), Carla Romanelli (Gang War in Milan), Piero Lulli (My Dear Killer), and Katsutoshi Mikuriya!
Cauldron Films presents Shanghai Joe on Blu-ray featuring a 2K restoration from the negative, both English and Italian audio options, CD soundtrack with music from Bruno Nicolai, and brand new extras!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 2K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
ORIGINAL ENGLISH AND ITALIAN AUDIO, WITH OPTIONAL ENGLISH AND ENGLISH SDH SUBTITLES
NEW Samurai Spirit: Interview with Master Katsutoshi Mikuriya
NEW East Meets West: Italian Style - visual essay by film historian Eric Zaldivar
NEW Audio Commentary with film historian Mike Hauss from The Spaghetti Western Digest