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                              Sabata (1969)
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STARS...........: Lee Van Cleef, William Berger, Ignazio Spalla
DIRECTOR........: Gianfranco Parolini
WRITERS.........: Renato Izzo, Gianfranco Parolini
GENRE...........: Western 
IMDB............: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064916
RUNTIME.........: 1h 46mn
SIZE............: 4.88 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 6000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1920x820
ASPECT RATIO....: 2.35:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO1..........: English AC3 Mono 2.0 192kbps
AUDIO2..........: Italian AC3 2.0 192kbps
AUDIO3..........: German AC3 2.0 192kbps
SUBTITLES.......: ENG, GER
SOURCE..........: Explosive Media Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2021-05-26


Spaghetti Western fans used to the likes of Django and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly might be taken by surprise when watching Sabata. True, the film does star spaghetti Western star Lee Van Cleef as the tight-lipped hero of the title, but it has a very different feel from the genre's traditional, Sergio Leone-derived style. Director/co-writer Gianfranco Parolini (alias Frank Kramer) takes things in a direction that seems to fall halfway between The Wild Wild West TV series and a James Bond movie; the film is packed with colorful characters, exotic weapons, and the action scenes that mix wild stunts with pyrotechnics. Parolini appropriately gives the film a light touch, playing up the colorful and humorous aspects while delivering the action. The end result is a little too long for this sort of light material, causing it to drag a bit in the middle, but it is too good-natured and entertaining to dislike. In short, Sabata is likely to make fun viewing for Euro-cult fans and anyone interested in an offbeat Western