DVD The Clint Eastwood Gift Set (A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly):
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DVD The Clint Eastwood Gift Set (A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
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
Review(s): DVD The Clint Eastwood Gift Set (A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
For a Few Dollars More....
....you can buy them all separately and maybe get some actual liner notes!!! When I bought this, I thought the Slipcover holding all three films was pretty nifty. What weirded me out was that all the movies were not shrink-wrapped, and the liner notes or liner card on the inside front covers were missing. The topper was my copy of Fistful of Dollars had rip marks on the very top of the back cover paper. I'm about to put them in the player to see if I'm getting top quality or irregular materials. My advice is to just buy these separately.
Flawless Collection of Classic Westerns
I was never really interested in Westerns until I saw these films, now i love them. All these films are near flawless and very entertaining. This set contains all of the Sergio/Leone Clint Eastwood Films, in a special gift package.
Films in Set
1.A Fistful Of Dollars 1964- My least favorite of the three but still excellent. This one tells the tale of an opportunist gunslinger who gets in a fight with rival gangs in town. Clint manages to manipulate both sides and come out on top in this shoot em up saga. Eastwood gives an iconic & unforgetable performance as the man with no name. The only extra on this DVD is the trailer for the film. I rate this film 4 out of 5 stars.
2.For a Few Dollars More 1965- released a year after Fistful of Dollars, This is my second favorite in the collection. Here Clint teams up with gunslinger Colonel Mortimer in order to get reward money from the bandit Indio. Here Clint and his friend are bounty hunters against a gang of bank robbers. Very good ending. Contains the trailer for the movie also. Another must-see. 4.5 Stars.
3.The Good, The Bad & The Ugly 1966- My favorite of the collection. Everything is perfect- the story, the imagery, the haunting score & the acting. This one is about a trio of greedy treasure hunters. The Good -'' Clint as Blondie '', The Bad ''Angel Eyes'' & The Ugly ''Tuco''. Set during the Civil War, after encountering a group of dying soldiers in a wagon, Tuco learns the location of a graveyard where a treasure is buried. After Tuco nearly tries to kill him in the desert Blondie crawls over to the wagon and Blondie learns the exact location of the grave. Soon Blondie meets up with Angel Eyes, both wanting the 200,000 dollars. Then comes the unforgetable climatic ending. This set contains some special features as well. 5 out of 5 stars.
The set contains subtitles, trailers & the original 14 minutes from the original italian cut of the film ''The Good, The Bad & The Ugly''.
Overall, its a great collection of Western Masterpieces.
Highly Recommended.
Great set of three great films.
The Man With No Name Trilogy is the best way to get all the Clint Eastwood you can handle. As I have reviewed the films before in VHS I will focus on the extras. While there are not a lot they do have some interesting ones. For example, the disc holding The Good, The Bad And The Ugly includes deleted scenes from the original Italian release. That means that all the scenes are still in Italian, which is kind of cool. There is also text extras on the same disc dealing with behind the scenes information. A Fistful Of Dollars can be viewed in either letterbox or full screen and all the discs have the movie trailers. If you already have the tapes, unless you can find this set cheap or are slowly replacing your tapes with DVDs like I am, the extras don't seem worth dishing out the money to get the discs.
Related DVD's The Clint Eastwood Gift Set (A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
If you're interested in this boxed set, then you probably are already familiar with the movies. Apart from Clint Eastwood's 'spaghetti westerns', the films in this package are amongst his best westerns. Made in three different decades, each film represents Clint Eastwood as the star and director in three different eras.
'The Outlaw Josey Wales' (1976) was Eastwood's last 70's western. In the film, Josey Wales makes his way west after the Civil War, determined to live a useful and helpful life. He joins up with a group of settlers who need the protection that a man as tough and experienced as he is can provide. Unfortunately, Josey is a wanted man and his past catches up with him.
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Five--count 'em, five--chances to wallow in the shoot-first, ask-questions-later ethos of San Francisco cop Harry Callahan, who became a signature character for actor Clint Eastwood. The first one, Dirty Harry, is the best, a Don Siegel film in which Harry flouts rules about police brutality to capture a serial killer. In Magnum Force he tracks rogue cops and utters his "Do you feel lucky, punk?" speech. In The Enforcer he gets a female partner (future Cagney and Lacy star Tyne Daly). Sudden Impact featured him tracking a female serial killer and offered a new catch phrase: "Go ahead. Make my day." And The Dead Pool, aside from offering a smart little chase involving a radio-controlled model car, brought him face to face with Liam Neeson. You... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 20 November 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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After starring in the now-legendary trilogy of spaghetti Westerns for Italian director Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood became a box-office star and imported the style of those classic shoot-'em-ups for this 1967 Western directed by Ted Post, with whom Eastwood had worked during their days on the television series Rawhide. Eastwood plays an innocent rancher who is mistaken for a cattle rustler and sentenced to hang by an angry mob. When he is saved from the noose by a passing lawman, he embarks on a renegade campaign of vengeance against the men who attempted to lynch him. Hang 'Em High offers a number of memorable moments and stylistic flourishes, and features a superb supporting cast of Western veterans, including Ben Johnson, Ed Begley, Pat Hingle, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern,... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Clint Eastwood - Inger Stevens - Pat Hingle Director(s): Ted Post DVD Release Date: Released the 19 June 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Clint Eastwood's second film as a director (and his first Western) is a variation on the "man with no name" theme, starring Eastwood as the drifter known only as "the Stranger." He rides into the desert town of Lagos and is quickly attacked by three gunmen. Recovering with the aid of a local dwarf (a memorable role for Billy Curtis), the Stranger is hired by the intimidated townsfolk to fend off a band of violent ex-convicts. After teaching the citizens self-defense and instructing them to paint the entire town red and rename it "Hell," the Stranger vanishes. He reappears when the marauding criminals arrive, and delivers justice and teaches the townsfolk a harsh lesson about moral obligation. Is he a figure from their past or a kind of supernatural avenger? Combining humor with action,... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Clint Eastwood - Verna Bloom Director(s): Clint Eastwood DVD Release Date: Released the 24 February 1998 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Winner of four Academy Awards, including best picture, director, supporting actor, and best editing, Clint Eastwood's 1992 masterpiece stands as one of the greatest and most thematically compelling Westerns ever made. "The movie summarized everything I feel about the Western," said Eastwood at the time of the film's release. "The moral is the concern with gunplay." To illustrate that theme, Eastwood stars as a retired, once-ruthless killer-turned-gentle-widower and hog farmer. He accepts one last bounty-hunter mission--to find the men who brutalized a prostitute--to help support his two motherless children. Joined by his former partner (Morgan Freeman) and a cocky greenhorn (Jaimz Woolvett), he takes on a corrupt sheriff (Oscar winner Gene Hackman) in a showdown that makes the viewer... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 26 March 1997 Usually ships in 6 to 11 days
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