The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 50th Anniversary Blu-ray Edition Detailed
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Posted June 10, 2017 03:33 PM by Webmaster
Kino Lorber have dated and detailed their 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 be available for purchase on August 15th.
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
Besides the color correction (removing the yellowishness) we also made the following corrections and adjustments to create our 161 Minute cut of the Theatrical version:
1. The "flip cut" transition/optical wipe from "Tuco talking to Blondie and taking a bite of his cigar to being hung" was restored to its original version
2. The fadeout to black of the "gun shop owner with the sign in his mouth" scene is now a cut to exodus scene.
3. The fadeout of the "Blondie passing out as Tuco is bringing him water" scene happens exactly 1 second later than how it was on old MGM DVD release of the Theatrical Cut.
4. The dissolve from "night" scene to "coach arriving at the mission" scene now fades up from black
5. The shot of the train leaving the station (with Tuco and Wallace on it) was supposedly longer in the US theatrical cut, before cutting directly to Tuco in the train and not dissolving out earlier to the early morning camp scene - Our 4K of the 161 minute cut matches the old MGM DVD of the theatrical cut exactly.
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
- Animated Image Galleries
- Optional English SDH subtitles
- 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
- Optional English subtitles
Besides the color correction (removing the yellowishness) we also made the following corrections and adjustments to create our 161 Minute cut of the Theatrical version:
1. The "flip cut" transition/optical wipe from "Tuco talking to Blondie and taking a bite of his cigar to being hung" was restored to its original version
2. The fadeout to black of the "gun shop owner with the sign in his mouth" scene is now a cut to exodus scene.
3. The fadeout of the "Blondie passing out as Tuco is bringing him water" scene happens exactly 1 second later than how it was on old MGM DVD release of the Theatrical Cut.
4. The dissolve from "night" scene to "coach arriving at the mission" scene now fades up from black
5. The shot of the train leaving the station (with Tuco and Wallace on it) was supposedly longer in the US theatrical cut, before cutting directly to Tuco in the train and not dissolving out earlier to the early morning camp scene - Our 4K of the 161 minute cut matches the old MGM DVD of the theatrical cut exactly.
