Leone's The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 2-disc SE, May 18, 2004 (MERGED THREAD) (1 Viewer)

[Carlo_M]

You don't have to ask twice, Larry! This is a day-n-date purchase for me!

 

[Kachi Khatri]

This is awesome...

Anyway, interested in seeing how the extended footage comes along with the recent additons in the dialogue and the replacement voice artist for Lee Van Cleef. I don't recall this being done to any other movies.

 

[Damin J Toell]

Anyway, interested in seeing how the extended footage comes along with the recent additons in the dialogue and the replacement voice artist for Lee Van Cleef. I don't recall this being done to any other movies.

It has happened before. For example, Anthony Hopkins performed as Laurence Olivier for missing dialogue in the restored version of Spartacus.

DJ

 

[John Hodson]

Charles Gray voiced Jack Hawkins when the latter suffered with throat cancer; and wasn't it Rich Little who voiced David Niven when his MS left him with slurred speech?

BTW - I don't know who voiced Jack Elam in OUATITW for the English version, but for some reason he didn't post dub his own lines.

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So many films, so little time...

 

[Steve K.H.]

There has been (to me) a void on the "absolutely can't wait to add to my must have" DVD's.

Come to think of it, there's been a lot of crappy Tuesdays of late.

This announcement ranks way up there for virtually all of us, for sure.

I guess the successes or failures of this re-release will dictate if/when and how the other manwithnoname films will be repackaged.

 

[oscar_merkx]

you're not wrong there

 

[Dome Vongvises]

Well, I guess it was a good thing I waited.

 

[LarryDavenport]

I don't know how to post art, but DVD Answers has it up and it looks frikkin cool!!

 

[JonZ]

This is one of my very favorite films.

But I want the option to watch either the old version or the new :frowning:

Im drooling for this with a new transfer and 5.1

 

[Randy B A]

WTF, WB starts to release some 2 disc SE's in keep cases, and now MGM starts to release them in digi-packs. I swear these studios do this crap just to piss every body off.

The slip cover looks great but why not put it over a slim 2 disc case like they had been doing up until Boys in the Hood SE.

 

[oscar_merkx]

from the bbfc.co.uk

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

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

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The main spoken language in this work is English.
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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When a film is transferred to video the running time will be shorter by approximately 4% due to the differing number of frames per second. This does not mean that the video version has been cut or re-edited.

 

[george kaplan]

12 minutes and 24 seconds?

Either I'm misunderstanding that running time, or that movie has been cut to hell.

 

[Matthew_Brown]

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.

 

[oscar_merkx]

I think that it is part of a multi part documentary about Leone myself

 

[Gordon McMurphy]

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.

 

[LarryDavenport]

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.

 

[John Hodson]

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

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So many films, so little time...

 

[LarryDavenport]

I've never seen it but it is mentioned in the IMDB under Alternate Versions and has come up on Leone boards

 

[John Hodson]

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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So many films, so little time...

 

[oscar_merkx]

I was not aware of this either.

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