- Actors: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè, Luigi Pistilli
- Directors: Sergio Leone
- Writers: Sergio Leone, Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, Mickey Knox
- Producers: Alberto Grimaldi
- Language English
- Classification: 18
- Studio: MGM
- VHS Release Date: 1 Feb 2000
- Run Time: 161 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (91 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004CJ59
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,746 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
This two-disc Special Edition presents the restored, extended English-language version of Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, now clocking in at almost three hours (actually 171 minutes on this Region 2 DVD as a result of the faster frames-per-second ratio of the PAL format). It includes some 14 minutes of previously cut scenes, with both Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach returning to the editing suite in 2003 to add their voices to scenes that had never before been dubbed into English (Wallach's voice is noticeably that of a much older man in these additional sequences). The extra material contains nothing of vital importance, but it's good to have the movie returned to pretty much the way Leone originally wanted it. The anamorphic widescreen picture is now also accompanied by a handsome Dolby 5.1 soundtrack, making this the most complete and satisfactory version so far released.
Film historian Richard Schickel provides an authoritative and engaging commentary on Disc 1. On the second disc there are featurettes on Leone's West (20 mins), The Leone Style (24 mins), Reconstructing The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (11 mins) and a documentary about the historical background of the Sibley campaign, The Man Who Lost the Civil War (15 mins). In addition, there's a two-part appreciation of composer Ennio Morricone, Il Maestro, by film-music expert John Burlinghame. Tuco's extended torture scene can be found here, along with a reconstruction of the fragmentary "Socorro Sequence". In short, exemplary bonus features that will satisfy every Leone aficionado. --Mark Walker
From the Back Cover
The Good The Bad and The Ugly, written by Age-Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni and Sergio Leone is the third and last western in Clint Eastwood's spaghetti trilogy. Director Sergio Leone substitutes for the upright puritan Protestant ethos, so familiar in Hollywood westerns, a seedy cynical standpoint towards death and morality, as a team of brutal bandits battle to unearth a fortune buried beneath an unmarked grave. Joining Clint, clearly "The Good", is the irredeemably "Bad" Eli Wallach and the resolutely "Ugly" Lee Van Cleef.
The Complex plot of bloodshed and betrayal winds its way through the American Civil War, filmed to resemble the French battlefields of World War One, to the end in the climatic Dance of Death. Arguably the quintessential Italian Western, this 1966 film boasts a fine Ennio Morricone score featuring a main theme that reached No.1 in the world's pop charts.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Practically everyone in the western world must know or have seen this film. This is THE seminal spaghetti western that transcended the already high standards set by Fistful of Dollars, and For a Few Dollars More. Clint Eastwood is icy cool throughout, Lee Van Cleef exudes evil, but for me the acting honours go to Eli Wallach, who comes close to the line, but never crosses it, of parody in portraying the low-life Tuco. The film teems with quotable lines (check out the quotes and trivia section), fabulously atmospheric Morricone music, and a superb panoramic setting against the back-drop of the Americal Civil War. What more can you ask for ?
42 of 45 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This masterpiece is the film which defines the Spaghetti Western. Clint Eastwood is good guy Blondie and the other two main characters, Tuco (Eli Wallach) and Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef) veer between bad and ugly over the two and half hour duration of this film. The plot is long and winding, but is essentially fairly simple - three guys who don't trust each other trying to get their hands on a consigment of gold. We all know about the music - and Morricone's soundtrack is an undisputed masterpiece. If there is a better marriage of sound and vision in cinema than the last 15 minutes of this film, I have yet to see it. But it's more than just a music video - the direction from the legendary Sergio Leone is out of this world. This is an epic in every sense of the word - the battle against good and bad, a cast of hundreds in the Civil War scenes and camera work which makes no concessions to TV and uses the entire length of the screen. The DVD is good, too. The picture and sound quality are out of this world. The 15 minutes of deleted scenes add nothing, but are a nice curio. You also get the original theatrical trailer. So this isn't a DVD to buy for fancy bells and whistles, but it delivers in spades on the top-quality basics - ie perfect sound and vision. A masterpiece.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I have loved this movie from when I first saw it as a teen, a worryingly long time ago. As I've grown older my tastes have become more sophisticated, and yet this movie only grows in my estimation instead of shrinking. It is simply a masterclass in how to make an enjoyable movie: good story, great camerawork, music, acting and direction, with brilliant flashes of action, emotion and humour. This movie has stood the test of time and long may it continue to do so.
I do have one concern, which is the fashion on DVD and Blu-ray of "restoring" movies to ever longer and longer versions. In this special edition for example we have a restored scene of Tuco meeting up with his gang, the justification being that we otherwise don't know where the bullet fodder comes from: well I'm sorry, but I've gone a lot of years without feeling that lack - and the same goes for some of the other additions. By all means collect these on disk as deleted scenes, but don't mess with the movie I fell in love with. A movie this long is already a hard sell to others I might hope to share the experience with, please don't make it harder for me! It is sacrilege I know, but in an ideal world perhaps this trend could be reversed: get some expert editor who is sympathetic to Leone to tighten this movie up rather than lengthen it, making it easier for a wider audience to appreciate this masterpiece.
I do have one concern, which is the fashion on DVD and Blu-ray of "restoring" movies to ever longer and longer versions. In this special edition for example we have a restored scene of Tuco meeting up with his gang, the justification being that we otherwise don't know where the bullet fodder comes from: well I'm sorry, but I've gone a lot of years without feeling that lack - and the same goes for some of the other additions. By all means collect these on disk as deleted scenes, but don't mess with the movie I fell in love with. A movie this long is already a hard sell to others I might hope to share the experience with, please don't make it harder for me! It is sacrilege I know, but in an ideal world perhaps this trend could be reversed: get some expert editor who is sympathetic to Leone to tighten this movie up rather than lengthen it, making it easier for a wider audience to appreciate this masterpiece.
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