Suitable materials for the uncut version yes. But Eureka had made a scan of the cut English version and it wouldn't surprise me if Kino is using that?
Eureka was going to release that cut version on Blu-Ray and nothing else. I'm not entirely sure if they even knew at that point that the version was cut. They probably did but didn't know there is a complete English soundtrack for the film available and so once they learned of that they tried to release the uncut version on Blu-Ray. But it turned out there wasn't good enough material available (I think it was simply an issue of money... nobody wanted to pay whatever was required for a new scan of the original negatives... but I'm just speculating) so they canceled the Blu-Ray. And then they found out the English audio they had access to wasn't in that great shape either so they decided to release only a DVD with Italian audio and English subs. I would have added the audio anyways and so would have some other companies but oh well...
Seems to me Kino either doesn't know or is pretending the cut version is the one and only English language version of the film. ;)
As for A Reason To Live A Reason To Die, there are two versions of the film in English... the shorter one (20 minutes or something maybe?) features Coburn's own voice, the longer one (like on Wild East DVD) doesn't. No idea about Kino's plans.
Eureka was going to release that cut version on Blu-Ray and nothing else. I'm not entirely sure if they even knew at that point that the version was cut. They probably did but didn't know there is a complete English soundtrack for the film available and so once they learned of that they tried to release the uncut version on Blu-Ray. But it turned out there wasn't good enough material available (I think it was simply an issue of money... nobody wanted to pay whatever was required for a new scan of the original negatives... but I'm just speculating) so they canceled the Blu-Ray. And then they found out the English audio they had access to wasn't in that great shape either so they decided to release only a DVD with Italian audio and English subs. I would have added the audio anyways and so would have some other companies but oh well...
Seems to me Kino either doesn't know or is pretending the cut version is the one and only English language version of the film. ;)
As for A Reason To Live A Reason To Die, there are two versions of the film in English... the shorter one (20 minutes or something maybe?) features Coburn's own voice, the longer one (like on Wild East DVD) doesn't. No idea about Kino's plans.
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