Mercenario, Il/DVD
From The Spaghetti Western Database
All available DVD releases of Il Mercenario / A Professional Gun / The Mercenary that we know of. If you are looking for BluRay discs, click here.
Germany
- Label: Koch Films
- Release date: May 12, 2016
- 8-DVD Box: The Gr8ful Eight - Acht Meisterwerke des Italowestern
- Includes: Last of the Badmen, The Mercenary, Navajo Joe, Tepepa, Death at Owell Rock, El Chuncho, Sugar Colt, Shoot the Living...
- Buy now: Amazon DE | ES | IT
- Mercenario - Der Gefürchtete
- Label: Koch Films
- Release date: May 2, 2014
- Franco Nero Italo Western Box
- also includes Pride and Vengeance & Cry, Onion!
- Buy now From Amazon.de
- Label: Koch Media
- 8 DVD Western Unchained box
- Release date: May 24, 2013
- Includes: Last of the Badmen, A Professional Gun, Navajo Joe, Blood and Guns, Death Does Not Count the Dollars, Yankee, Sugar Colt, Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead
- Buy now: From Amazon.de | Amazon.es | Amazon.it
- Label: Koch Films
- Release date: January 18, 2013 (Re-release, identical to previous Koch release)
- Video: 2.35:1 (16:9)
- Audio: German, English, Italian (DD 2.0)
- Subtitles: German
- Extras: Trailers; Featurette; Picture Gallery
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- Re-Release in an Amaray-case without booklet
- Label: Koch Films
- Release date: December 16, 2010
- Buy now From Amazon.de | Amazon.it | Amazon.es
- Mercenario - Der Gefürchtete
- Label: Koch Films
- Release date: February 5, 2010
- Digitally remastered, restored and uncut (102 mins)
- Video: 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen, PAL
- Region 2
- Audio: English, Italian, German (DD 2.0)
- Subtitles: German (optional)
- Extras: German and English trailers, exclusive featurette "How to make a Revolution" (40mins, English and German subtitles!), picture galleries (locations before and after; posters and stills), booklet/liner notes by Mike Siegel; digipack packaging
- Note: The DVD is fully English-friendly, the menus and the liner notes are in German however.
- DVD Review: Deutsch | English | Focus, External review, including screenshots (in German)
- Buy now From Amazon.de | Amazon.it | Amazon.es
UK
- Label: 88 Films , also released on BluRay
- Release date: January 8, 2018
- Region 2
- Video: 2.35:1
- Audio: English Dolby Digital 2.0
- Subtitles: English
- Extras: Mercenary Musings by Eric Zaldivar; Theatrical Trailer
- Pre-order now: From Amazon.co.uk
Italy
- Release date: June 2020
- Label: CG Home Ent.
- Details tbc
- Buy now: Amazon.it
- Label: Mondo Home Entertainment
- Region 2
- Release date: ?
- DVD Film Length: 101.45 minutes PAL
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Audio Dolby Digital: Italian 5.1, Italian 2.0 mono
- Subtitles: Italian for the hard of hearing (optional)
- Extras: Franco Nero biography and filmography, Sergio Corbucci biography and filmography, Colt Collection promotional video, Universal Studio promotional video, DVD credits
- Buy now: From Amazon.de
- Also available as part of the 8-disc Colt Collection
- Old Italian DVD
- Details tbc
USA
- Label: Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- on DVD and BluRay
- Release date: November 7, 2017
- Extras: Audio commentary by Alex Cox; Trailer
- Widescreen, English audio, NTSC
- Buy now: From Amazon.com
- The Mercenary
- Label: TGG Direct - Western Double Feature
- Release date: December 11, 2012
- DVD-R, Region 0
- 2 DVD set with God's Gun
- Video: 16:9 anamorphic - NTSC
- Audio: English
- Runtime: ca. 106 min
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- Professional Gun
- Label: Direct Source and other bootleg lables
- various cover designs
- full screen pan & scan, NTSC
- English audio only
- Not recommended
- Buy now: From Amazon.com | w/ God's Gun, (also miserable copy)
France
- Label: Metropolitan Vidéo / Sidonis Calysta
- Release date: April 7, 2023
- DVD only edition (also released as BluRay/DVD limited edition)
- 107min
- Subtitles: French
- Audio: English, French
- Details tbc
- Buy now: From Amazon.fr | From FNAC | From Amazon.de
- Label: Wild Side Video
- Release date: January 2015
- Buy now: From Amazon.fr
- El Mercenario
- Label: Wild Side Video (FNAC exclusive edition)
- Release date: ?
- remastered transfer
- Video: 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen, PAL
- Audio: English, Italian, French
- Subtitles: French (different ones for the Italian and the English ones in some aspects)
- Extras: Introduction by Jean-François Giré (13min), author of "Il était une fois ... le western européen"; picture gallery; filmographies; internet links
- Buy now: From FNAC.fr
- Coffret Sergio Corbucci
- Label: Wild Side Video (FNAC exclusive edition)
- Release date: ?
- Also includes:
- Buy now: From FNAC.com
Japan
- August 9, 2023 re-release
- Release date: July 14, 2021
- Details tbc
- Also released on BluRay
- Complete Japanese dub (1974 broadcast version)
- Extras: Sergio Corbucci memoir; interview with Nori Corbucci 2001; theatrical trailer
- The Mercenary
- Label: SPO/Stingray
- Release date: ?
- Italian and English audio
- Uncut
- Widescreen (2.35:1)
- Trailer, edited version (as an easter egg)
- Availability: Out of print
Spain
- Salario para matar - El mercenario
- Label: Suevia Films
- Release date: ?
- Video: 1.85:1 letterboxed (to be confirmed), PAL
- Spanish audio 2.0
- Region 2
- Buy now: From Amazon.es
- Salario para Matar
- Label: Llamentol
- Release date: May 11, 2009
- Picture format: PAL - Widescreen
- Audio: Spanish DD 2.0, Italian 2.0
- No Subtitles
- Region: 0
- Run Time: 95 minutes
- Extras: photo gallery, Filmographies
- Spaguetti Western Box
- Label: Llamentol
- Release date: February 10, 2010
- 10 DVDs
- Includes: Cjamango - Black Jack - Quel maledetto giorno d'inverno... Django e Sartana all'ultimo - Acquasanta Joe - Sette winchester per un massacro - Los Amigos - Dinamite Jim - Il Mercenario - Le pistole non discutono - 30 Winchester per El Diablo
Australia
- A Professional Gun
- Pal, Region 4
- Unknown specifications; probably similar to not-recommended US releases
Brazil
- Label: Versatil Home Video
- Release date: January 2022
- Faroeste Spaghetti collection Vol. 3, 2 DVDs includes Mercenario, Quien Sabe?, Massacre Time and Bounty Killer
- Region all
- Video: Anamorphic Widescreen, NTSC, Uncut and restored versions
- over an hour of extras, limited edition with 4 postcards
- Audio: Italian, Spanish (Bounty Killer only)
- Subtitles: Portugues
- Os Violentos Vão para o Inferno
- Label: Ocean Pictures
- Release date: ?
- Video: full screen
- Audio: English (stereo), Portuguese (stereo)
- Subtitles: Portuguese
- Poor picture quality and very poor sound quality on English track. Not recommended.
Argentina
- Label: DSX
- Release date: June 15, 2011
- Remastered edition
- Audio: English, Spanish
- Subtitles: Spanish
- Video: Letterbox widescreen, NTSC
