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post #91 of 148
1/28/04 at 1:43am
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from the bbfc.co.uk

THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY - SPECIAL EDITION DVD - IL MAESTRO: PART 2 Video

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Classified 27 January, 2004 . Run Time 12m 24s

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The BBFC has placed this work in the ACTION, WESTERN genre(s).


When submitted to the BBFC the work had a running time of 12m 24s.


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Video 27/01/2004 MGM Home Entertainment (Europe) Ltd 12m 24s No THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY - SPECIAL EDITION DVD - IL MAESTRO: PART 2

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post #92 of 148
1/28/04 at 4:37am
12 minutes and 24 seconds?

Either I'm misunderstanding that running time, or that movie has been cut to hell.
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post #93 of 148
1/28/04 at 5:31am
Hehe. Is that referring to a new featurette on the DVD maybe? I'm pretty sure The Good the Bad & the Ugly is a mite longer than that myself.
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post #94 of 148
1/28/04 at 5:39am
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I think that it is part of a multi part documentary about Leone myself

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post #95 of 148
1/28/04 at 6:52am
I really hope that MGM revisits A Fistful Of Dollars and For A Few Dollars More. The current transfers are non-anamorphic, which is a real drag.
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post #96 of 148
1/28/04 at 8:43am
The guy who restored GBU for MGM said in a thread on another board that they had also restored the first two films, adding footage here and there on For A Few Dollars More. It was probably mostly trims. It's been awhile since I watched my Key Video VHS version, but it seemed like the editing on it was cleaner and some scenes went on longer than the Laser Disc or DVD. The rape scene, for instance, seemed choppy on the letterboxed digital versions over the VHS.

Though I wouldn't want to see it edited in the film, I think a cool bonus would be the scene added to A Fistfull of Dollars by ABC Television that has Harry Dean Stanton playing a Marshall who sends deputy Clint Eastwood into the town to clean it up, so as to justify Clint's actions.
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post #97 of 148
1/28/04 at 1:13pm
I think a cool bonus would be the scene added to A Fistfull of Dollars by ABC Television that has Harry Dean Stanton playing a Marshall who sends deputy Clint Eastwood into the town to clean it up, so as to justify Clint's actions.


I didn't know they did that - it sounds horrific!

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post #98 of 148
1/28/04 at 1:32pm
I've never seen it but it is mentioned in the IMDB under Alternate Versions and has come up on Leone boards
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post #99 of 148
1/28/04 at 1:44pm
Larry - which 'other board' did the MGM guy make the comments about restoring the trilogy? I like to, er, mosey on over there

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post #100 of 148
1/28/04 at 3:29pm
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I was not aware of this either.

What a great way to learn more about Leone's movies

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post #101 of 148
1/28/04 at 3:41pm
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John

You want to check out this site

http://www.fistful-of-leone.com/

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post #102 of 148
1/28/04 at 3:50pm
John - Oscar has the link to the Leone board I refer to.
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post #103 of 148
2/1/04 at 12:57pm
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I found this for pre order

http://www.dvdempire.com/Exec/v4_ite...382182&redir=1
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post #104 of 148
2/1/04 at 1:51pm
Thanks oscar!

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post #105 of 148
2/3/04 at 3:21pm
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I found more info on this release, thanks to John Hodson

http://www.dvdsavant.com/s745GBU.html

This is the original article and DVDSavant have added the following

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NOTE, 1.27.04: The MGM DVD Special edition will be released on May 18, 2004 ... In addition to the remixed English 5.1 audio track, it will have the original Sergio Leone supervised and approved original Italian audio track.


very good news indeed
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post #106 of 148
2/12/04 at 3:35pm
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here is more news regarding the special features

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=6547

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Extended 3-Hour Version
2.35:1 Anamorphic Widescreen
Digitally Remastered With English 5.1 Audio
Italian Mono
English, French, Spanish, Cantonese and Mandarin subtitles
Audio Commentary by Film Historian Richard Schickel
“Leone’s West” - Retrospective making-of documentary featuring new interviews with cast and crew, including Clint Eastwood, and behind-the-scenes footage
“The Leone Style” - Documentary on Sergio Leone and his impact on the spaghetti western film genre
“The Man Who Lost the Civil War” - Historical documentary on the Civil War
“Reconstructing The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” - Featurette which focuses on the process of reconstruction and talent audio re-recordings for the fully restored version of the film
“Il Maestro: Ennio Morricone and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” - Featurette on Composer Ennio Morricone featuring behind-the-scenes photos
Extended Scene - A never-before-seen extended version of the "Tuco Torture" scene
"The Socorro Sequence: A Reconstruction" - Three-minute animated sequence of a deleted scene
French trailer - Includes film clips that were deleted from the final version of the film
Poster Gallery - Features eight international theatrical posters
Original theatrical trailer - Two-minute trailer as shown in theaters
4 Easter Eggs:
"Uno, Due, Tre"
"Italian Lunch"
"New York Actor"
"Gun In Holster"
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post #107 of 148
3/8/04 at 8:48am
Review of the region 2 edition: http://www.dvddebate.com/article.php?sid=4035

I can't wait to get this!
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post #108 of 148
3/8/04 at 9:25am
R1 for me, I want the Italian track, the packaging appears superior and I'm not sure the R2 will have the booklet.

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post #109 of 148
3/8/04 at 9:59am
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I am going for R1 as well. All my Leone dvds are region 1

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post #110 of 148
3/8/04 at 10:35am
May cannot come soon enough...this will be a nice college graduation present for myself.
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post #111 of 148
3/8/04 at 4:46pm
This is the first DVD release I have been excited about in over 6 months (seriously).
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post #112 of 148
4/26/04 at 10:22am
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any body want to play a good game

http://www.makaimedia.com/games/gbu/?version=1

have fun

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post #113 of 148
4/26/04 at 11:00am
I'm rubbish at games High score - 6! Can't wait for this though...come on MGM, get on with SEs of A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and A Fistful of Dynamite.

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post #114 of 148
4/26/04 at 12:54pm
Cool game. Currently, I'm #7 under "Blondie"
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post #115 of 148
4/26/04 at 1:08pm
Maybe it's me but I wish they'd have gotten someone else to do the commentary as I find Schsiskel a real bore!

His commentary for Unforgiven was so dull I couldn't even make it through the end

Great film though!!
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post #116 of 148
4/26/04 at 1:43pm
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I think they should have stuck with the same one from Once Upon A Time in the West

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post #117 of 148
4/26/04 at 4:05pm
From bits of the commentary I've listened to Richard Schickel seems to know his subject although he did make a mistake at the very start of the film, referring to Lee Van Cleef's character as 'the ugly', and this just a few minutes after Eli Wallach smashes thru a window with the words 'the ugly' popping up too.

The transfer is great, not as perfect as OUATITW, but probably the best this film has been since it's 1966 release. The 5.1 stereo sound is good, explosions and gunfire are heard everywhere. The extra scenes don't detract, dubbing is okay not perfect.
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post #118 of 148
4/26/04 at 4:09pm
Is there anyone besides me who would have liked this release to be seamlessly branched? I've seen the extra scenes, and there's nothing wrong with them (and I think one of them should probably have been left in for clarity's sake), but honestly I find the 2hr 40 min cut to be nearly perfect. Would it have really been so hard to include some branching code to make the disc do this?

-Lyle J.P.
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post #119 of 148
4/27/04 at 5:47am
"Is there anyone besides me who would have liked this release to be seamlessly branched?"

YES!

I dont like the idea of having 18 minutes added and then dubbed 30 years later.

I would have the original cut with the extra footage via seamless branching.

I also dont like what I read abotu them using new gunfire effects
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post #120 of 148
4/27/04 at 12:17pm
Not necessarily the best spot for this, but I have preordered so I'll ask anyways and pretend it is. :p)

Does anyone know if they'll reissue the soundtrack as well? I've been trying to track it down, but the 1989(?) CD release seems to be hard to come across (at least in my neck of the woods).
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