| The Man with No Name Trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) | 
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Category: DVD
Actor: Clint Eastwood
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Brand: EASTWOOD,CLINT
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Format: Subtitled, Color, Letterboxed, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 392 minutes
Number Of Items: 3
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.5 x 1.9
MPN: 027616785923
ISBN: 0792842502
UPC: 027616785923
EAN: 9780792842507
ASIN: 0792842502
Release Date: October 5, 1999
Theatrical Release Date: December 29, 1967
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Track: 1: Fistfull Of Dollars,Track: 2: For A Few Dollars More,Track: 3: Good Bad & The Ugly
Media Type: DVD
Artist: EASTWOOD,CLINT
Title: MAN WITH NO NAME TRILOGY
Street Release Date: 11/07/2006
Domestic
Genre: WESTERNS
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Sergio Leone's trilogy of operatic spaghetti Westerns with Clint Eastwood made the former TV star into an international sensation as the scraggly, silent Man with No Name, a wandering rogue with a scheming mind and a sense of humor drier than the dusty, wind-scoured desert. With A Fistful of Dollars, a blatant rip-off of Kurosawa's cynical samurai hit Yojimbo, Leone transforms the Western hero into a crafty mercenary. The follow-up, For a Few Dollars More, teams Eastwood up in an uneasy alliance with Lee Van Cleef in a tale of revenge, but the masterpiece of the set is The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, an epic scramble for buried gold set against the violence of the Civil War. In this film good is a relative term as three criminals make a series of tenuous partnerships broken in double-crosses and betrayals in Leone's epic vision of the American southwest as endless deserts and clapboard towns infested with gunmen. This was a new kind of Western: cynical, violent, stylish, and austere. Eastwood's rough face and squinting eyes fill the widescreen frame in massive close-ups while Leone stages action in bold compositions on empty streets and stark landscapes. The guns ring out in cartoonish exaggeration, and the music, an eclectic, electric mix of buzzing guitar, human voice, and harmonica by Ennio Morricone, sets the whole thing in a world pitched between myth and modernity. Leone's shot-in-Spain trilogy ushered in a flood of Italian spaghetti Westerns, but none hold a candle to Leone's stylish classics. --Sean Axmaker
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 wont work in ireland September 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
the dvds i bought would not work here as were region 1 think irish buyers should be warned hope amozon can refund me with dvds that play here would not work on any dvd players
 Clint Eastwood fan July 20, 2008
Bought this for my grandson & he is very pleased with the set.
Regards, Otto M.
just as expected July 10, 2008
I recieved the item in the exact condition specified in ad and was recieved in a timely manner. Everything was as expected and that is good!
think twice! May 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I own the "Sergio Leone Anthology" DVD box set, which features "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" with only the 5.1 English audio option (the same edition as the "collector's edition"). As I already was aware of this (I wanted the extras and the other films), I also purchased the single DVD version of "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", which is also available in the "Man with No Name" trilogy DVD box set, in order to have a copy with the original Mono English language soundtrack.
While the artwork for the newer edition / pressing of this single-disc "Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" still lists the audio as mono, the DVD menu only lists the 5.1 English soundtrack as an option. The original edition / pressing only offered the mono.
Either this option is an technical / editorial oversight that occurred during the re-packaging and re-pressing of the older DVD edition (and the artwork is still correct), or the DVD option is correct, and the artwork was mistakenly overlooked during repressing. Either way, this is an obvious oversight that should be amended.
The fact is that this is NOT the same printing or pressing as the original DVD of "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" that was released in the late 1990's. The original pressing had a missing bit taken from the Italian release (not dubbed into English) -- the same bit that was re-dubbed by Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach for the re-release of the extended version, etc., etc., in the early 2000's (which led to the "collector's edition" DVD release).
This is a new pressing, with the audio "problem" noted above (which essentially means, and this is very significant for Leone fans, that there is currently NO in-print DVD pressing of "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" available for purchase with the original mono soundtrack), and an accompanying commentary track that is the same as that offered on the "collector's edition"... and none of the original "special features" (such as the previously mentioned un-dubbed bit).
The publisher should have noted this difference by assigning it as a different release. I just got back from a local shop to purchase their last copy of the original release (because I do insist that the original Leone sound is something worth having). I just want customers to know what they're getting. I've tried emailing both MGM Home Video and amazon.com. We'll see if anything changes...
classic good vs. evil April 7, 2008
some of the best westerns ever made. this trio will never be eclipsed for the style, musical score and superior acting.
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