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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: LEONE,SERGIO EAN: 9786301971270 Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, HiFi Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 6301971272 Item Dimensions: Label: MGM (Video & DVD) Languages: Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD) MPN: 027616078537 Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 05, 2007 Running Time: 179 minutes Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) Theatrical Release Date: December 29, 1967 Editorial Review: Product Description: During the American Civil War, three men search for a buried fortune. Genre: Westerns Rating: NR Release Date: 5-JUN-2007 Media Type: DVD Amazon.com essential video: If you think of A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More as the tasty appetizers in Sergio Leone's celebrated "Dollars" trilogy of Italian "Spaghetti" Westerns, then The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is a lavish full-course feast. Readily identified by the popular themes of its innovative score by Ennio Morricone (one of the bestselling soundtracks of all time), this cinematic milestone eclipsed its influential predecessors with a $1.2 million budget (considered extravagant in the mid-1960s), greater production values to accommodate Leone's epic vision of greed and betrayal, and a three-hour running time for its wide-ranging plot about the titular trio of mercenaries ("Good" Blondie played by rising star Clint Eastwood, "Bad" Angel Eyes played by Lee Van Cleef, and "Ugly" Tuco played by Eli Wallach) in a ruthless Civil War-era quest for $200,000 worth of buried Confederate gold. Virtually all of Leone's stylistic attributes can be found here in full fruition, from the constant inclusion of Roman Catholic iconography to a climactic circular shoot-out, along with Leone's trademark use of surreal landscapes, brilliant widescreen compositions and extreme close-ups of actors so intimate that they burn into the viewer's memory. And while some Leone fans may favor the more scaled-down action of For a Few Dollars More or the masterful grandiosity of Once Upon a Time in the West, it was The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly that cemented Leone's reputation as a world-class director with a singular vision. --Jeff Shannon Average Rating:
 Rating:  - " Sorry, Tuco."WOW! I've always loved this flick & this Special Edition made me appreciate it all the more. Sergio Leone took all of our American, safe, comforting & familiar Western conventions, blew them all to hell & then thrust a jarring, jagged, grotesque epic in our faces. Even the landscape itself is alien-looking to us: sun-blasted & disturbingly weird, as though its from another world. The sets are all weathered, battered & awful-looking. Most of the people are striking in the strangeness of their appearance. ... Read More Rating: - Great title for a great westernSergio Leone once said that he knew more about the old west than any American. I'm not sure he was right, but he might have been right about Hollywood westerns. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is so good that it's title has become a part of the English language lexicon. The movie is, in it's own way, a comedy but there are moments of stark realism and pathos. The movie is not particularly logical or consistent but more than makes up for it with gritty characters and austere symbollism. I ... Read More Rating: - This movie is a good now as it was 40 years agoI first saw this movie in 1968 when I returned from Vietnam, It was one of the best cowboy shoot em ups I had seen then and yuppers now 40 years later it still is among the best of the best. Eastwood is hard core at his best!!. I have wanted to buy this entire series for all of this time,finally I bought this one and the 2 others exactly like it in it's series. They are by the way the best ones of those I reviewed, they are as great now to watch as they were then... ... Read More Rating:  - Over RatedWell, I really had high hopes for this one. Being a lover of western films, I decided I needed to go back and watch all the ones I had never seen, especially the old staples, i.e. The Wild Bunch, Magnificent Seven, etc. Having never watched one from this series, and being a moderate Eastwood fan, I was excited to get it home and watch it. All I can say was I was not impressed. I thought the musical score was annoying, screechy, repetitive, and not very interesting. It seemed Sergio Leone's greatest camera ... Read More Rating: - Eastwood, Wallach and Van Cleef at their Best : One of the Great Action Westerns On the heels of a "Fistful of Dollars" and "A Few Dollars More", this film is the greatest of the Italian trilogy as Wallach and Van Cleef add perfect balance to Eastwood in this western thriller set in the Civil War, in the midst of Confederate General Sibley's failed attempt to wrest New Mexico from the Union. What is superior in this film, compared to the two earlier films with Van Cleef and Eastwood, is the addition of the excellent actor Wallach who plays the unprincipled, unflinching, killer Tucco who adds ... Read More |
