Steve Oerkfitz recommended this 50th Anniversary Special Edition Blu-ray so I went out and bought it. Steve is right! This new edition is superior to the other DVD and Blu-ray versions I own of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966). It’s one of my favorite movies of all time. And, this package is full of great Special Features! Check them out. What’s your favorite Clint Eastwood movie? GRADE: A
Special Features:
Disc 1:
– 4K transfer of the Original U.S. Theatrical Cut Available for the first time in HD
– New Audio Commentary by Film Historian Tim Lucas
– Trailers From Hell with Ernest Dickerson
– Newly Restored 2.0 Mono Audio
– Restored 1967 UA Logo
– Alternate Scene: The Optical Flip
– Deleted Scene 1: Skeletons in the Desert
– Deleted Scene 2: Extended Torture Scene
– GBU on the: animated behind-the-scenes image gallery
– Promoting GBU: Posters & Lobby Cards animated image gallery
– Sergio Leone Westerns: Original Theatrical Trailers
– Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
– English DTS-HD MA 5.1 Audio
– Reversible Art
Disc 2:
– 4K transfer of the Extended Cut
– Newly Restored 2.0 Mono Audio
– Audio Commentary by Film Historian Richard Schickel
– Audio Commentary By Noted Cultural Historian Sir Christopher Frayling
– Leone’s West: Making Of Documentary (19:55)
– Il Maestro: Ennio Morricone and GBU Featurette Part 1 (7:48)
– Il Maestro: Ennio Morricone and GBU Featurette Part 2 (12:26)
– The Leone Style: On Sergio Leone Featurette (23:48)
– The Man Who Lost The Civil War: Civil War Documentary (14:24)
– Reconstruction GBU (11:09)
– Deleted Scene 1: Extended Tuco Torture scene (7:15)
– Deleted Scene 2: The Socorro Sequence – A Reconstruction (3:02)
– Vignette 1: Uno, Due, Tre (0:40)
– Vignette 2: Italian Lunch (0:43)
– Vignette 3: New York Accent (0:09)
– Vignette 4: Gun in Holster (0:58)
– Original U.S. Theatrical Trailer
– Original French Theatrical Trailer
– English DTS-HD MA 5.1 Audio
– Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Glad you liked it. This is probably my favorite Eastwood film but I am quite fond of the other two movies in this trilogy, the Unforgiven and the Outlaw Josey Wales.
Steve, thanks for the heads up on this 50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION. I love all the extras!
I’ve never been a huge Clint Eastwood fan, but thanks to my spaghetti-western-loving husband, I’ve seen most of Clint’s oeuvre. My favorites would be “The Beguiled” and “Play Misty for Me”.
Deb, I love PLAY MISTY FOR ME! Did you see the remake of THE BEGUILED? It opened and closed here in one week.
Which is a shame because it really was a decent remake.
Patti, I don’t know why the remake of THE BEGUILED flopped. It had star power and a good director. Movie audiences can be hard to figure out.
LOVED how you followed up your B’con report with this!
Dan, I thought you would appreciate the synchronicity.
No interest in a remake of THE BEGUILED. I did like the original, and THE UNFORGIVEN and PLAY MISTY FOR ME. But then, I even got a kick out of BRONCO BILLY.
Jeff, I’m impressed by the level of quality in Clint Eastwood’s movies especially the ones he directed.
If you have one copy, why buy a second, and a third? You only watch it once in a while, and do you ever watch the extras more than once? I figure I save money by just putting a movie on my Netflix queue when I want to see it.
Rink, I like to vote with my dollars. If buying new version of THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY encourages more upgrades, I’m all for it! Plus, as you know, I’m a hopeless addict.
Netflix only lists it as a DVD. Far inferior looking compared to a bluray.
THE BEGUILED is Number One with me…but the soundtrack for THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY?…has there ever been a cooler one?
Jerry, I have the Hugo Montenegro CD of Eastwood’s spaghetti western soundtracks! Love it!!
We watched all the spaghetti westerns as students – usually in the last performance (10 pm) at half price …
Those were the days! Actually these movies (the dollars trilogy) were Italian/German co-productions.
A bit OT:
Often people tried to get a beer into the theatre which was forbidden – so several times the guy at the projector would just stop the movie and call out:
You with the beer in row x leave the cinema – I won’t start the film again unless you go!
PS:
For us there always was the problem – watch the latest spaghetti western or the latest Dracula/Vampire movie by Hammer productions …
Wolf, we had drive-in theaters where teenagers would sneak in and watch the movies for free.
Remember going to a drive which was showing all three man with no name films. Since I was the tallest of my group of friends I never had to be the one in the trunk.
Steve, I once got sneaked into a drive-in by hiding on the floor in the backseat under a blanket.
Kelly’s Heroes is my choice. It holds up well after all these years, though without the belly laughs. The young Donald Sutherland stole the show.
Maggie, Donald Sutherland stole a lot of movies! A very underrated actor!
It’s a great movie but maddening that the picture quality has become so problematic and debated across home video iterations in the last decade, with none of the HD versions coming close to really matching the original look of the film. Some won’t mind too much but it drives me crazy! And for whatever reason, not a problem for the first two films in this series …
Sergio, video transfers from film are an ongoing problem. You’re right about the iffy quality of many of these films from the Sixties.