Kino Lorber have confirmed that they are preparing a brand new 50th Anniversary Blu-ray edition of director Sergio Leone's classic western
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), starring Eli Wallach, Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè, and Luigi Pistilli. The two-disc set will arrive on the market this summer.
Synopsis: By far the most ambitious, unflinchingly graphic and stylistically influential western ever mounted, The Good The Bad And The Ugly is an engrossing action shot through with a volatile mix of myth and realism. Clint Eastwood returns as the "Man With No Name," this time teaming with two gunslingers to pursue a cache of $20,000-and letting no one, not even warring factions in a civil war, stand in their way.
From sun-drenched panoramas to bold hard close-ups, exceptional camera work captures the beauty and cruelty of the barren landscape and the hardened characters who stride unwaveringly through it. Forging a vibrant and yet detached style of action that had not been seen before, and has never been matched since, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly shatters the western mold in true Eastwood style.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
DISC ONE
- 4K transfer of the Original U.S. Theatrical Cut
- New Audio Commentary by Film Historian Tim Lucas
- "Trailers From Hell" with Ernest Dickerson
- Newly Restored 2.0 Mono Audio
- M.O.S. Deleted Scene of Blondie in the desert finding skeletons
- Trailers for Sergio Leone Westerns
- Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
- English DTS-HD MA 5.1 Audio
- AND MORE – to be announced
DISC TWO
- 4K transfer of the Extended Cut
- Newly Restored 2.0 Mono Audio
- Audio Commentary By Acclaimed Film Historian Richard Schickel
- Audio Commentary By Noted Cultural Historian Christopher Frayling
- Leone's West: Making Of Documentary
- The Leone Style: On Sergio Leone Featurette
- The Man Who Lost The Civil War: Civil War Documentary
- Reconstruction The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
- II Maestro: Ennio Morricone and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Featurette
- Deleted Scenes
- Original U.S. Theatrical Trailer
- Original French Theatrical Trailer
- English DTS-HD MA 5.1 Audio
- Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono