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DVD The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (Extended Version Collector's Set)
Clint Eastwood (the Man with No Name) is good, Lee Van Cleef (Angel Eyes Sentenza) is bad, and Eli Wallach (Tuco Benedito Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez) is ugly in the final chapter of Sergio Leone's trilogy of spaghetti westerns (the first two were A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More). In this sweeping film, the characters form treacherous alliances in a ruthless quest for Confederate gold. Leone is sometimes underrated as a director, but the excellent resolution on this digital video disc should enhance appreciation of his considerable photographic talent and gorgeous widescreen compositions. Ennio Morricone's jokey score is justifiably famous. The digital video disc includes about a quarter-hour of footage not seen in the original release.
Review(s): DVD The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (Extended Version Collector's Set)
Best of the Spaghetti Westerns
Easily the best of the Man With No Name films.
Favorite Western
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (TGBU) is not the best Western ever made. That distiction belongs to The Searchers or High Noon. TGBU is, however, my favorite Western and a great movie. Particularly a great guy movie. Sergio Leone's grand sprawling deliberate mess of a movie. A blend of Civil War apocalypse & the end of the Old West. Beautifully filmed and scored with fine acting and smart funny dialogue. Endlessly quotable.
THE GOOD,THE BAD & UGLY
For it's time in the late 1960's...It was GREAT!!!LEE VAN CLEEF..the tall thin man in black..with a tall thin black horse..MAN...with that great music score.for a western fan all my life..I WAS IN EARTH-HEAVEN.Even LEE VAN CLEEF was BAD..But he was GOOD in the movie.Oh Yes...Clint Eastwood...always good.
Eli Wallach..was VERY GOOD!!Th music once again by ENNIO MORRICONE..was JUST GREAT.I have all his western tracks.The movie was long..but so was GONE WITH THE WIND & BEN-HUR.So what.I am happy to say..when I seen this at the show..I got my monies worth.Movies here in 2005...$8.00 shot..forget it!All blue screen junk.Here...the real outdoors..not in our states...put it was all photgraph for real.CLINT-ELI & the late & great LEE VAN CLEEF-I thank you!!
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A Fistful of Dollars launched the spaghetti Western and catapulted Clint Eastwood to stardom. Based on Akira Kurosawa's 1961 samurai picture Yojimbo, it scored a resounding success (in Italy in 1964 and the U.S. in 1967), as did its sequels, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The advertising campaign promoted Eastwood's character--laconic, amoral, dangerous--as the Man with No Name (though in the film he's clearly referred to as Joe), and audiences loved the movie's refreshing new take on the Western genre. Gone are the pieties about making the streets safe for women and children. Instead it's every man for himself. Striking, too, was a new emphasis on violence, with stylized, almost balletic gunfights and baroque touches such as... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Clint Eastwood - Gian Maria Volonté Director(s): Sergio Leone DVD Release Date: Released the 19 June 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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A ringing instance of a sequel far outstripping its predecessor, Sergio Leone's For a Few Dollars More takes the lethal antihero from A Fistful of Dollars, gives him both a rival and an adversary worthy of sharing a gun-blazing corrida, and ratchets up the stylization to something approaching grandeur. This time the Man with No Name (Clint Eastwood) is a bounty hunter whose desert Southwest killing ground is suddenly crowded by the presence of an older, black-clad shootist (Lee Van Cleef). Individually and together, they terminate sundry grotesques while closing in on their biggest quarry, a memorably insane bandit called El Indio (Gian Maria Volonté is brilliant). There's just enough plot to imbue Van Cleef with genuine mystery, a dark avenging angel from a lost past... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Clint Eastwood - Lee Van Cleef - Gian Maria Volonté Director(s): Sergio Leone DVD Release Date: Released the 19 June 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Clint Eastwood fired the original director, Philip Kaufman (The Right Stuff), and took over the reins of this project himself. He may have had a point: this brutal, thoughtful western, a near-tragedy about a Civil War veteran whose past comes looking for him, is probably Eastwood's most mature frontier drama prior to the Oscar winning Unforgiven. Hoping to build a quiet life in a cooperative community of settlers, Eastwood's Wales blames himself when his enemies attack the homestead, and he has to revert to his warrior instincts to help fend off the threat. The jittery intensity of Sondra Locke (who would be Mrs. Eastwood, at least for a while), and the screen-filling charisma of the late Chief Dan George harmonize beautifully with Eastwood, who had finally figured out how... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Clint Eastwood - Sondra Locke Director(s): Clint Eastwood DVD Release Date: Released the 20 November 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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