Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1330 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-10-03
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 6

DVD Description
Contains the three great Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns: A Fistful Of Dollars; For A Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.

A Fistful Of Dollars: Clint Eastwood's stunning Spaghetti Western debut. When the Man With No Name rides into town, the rival gangs of the Baxters and the Rojos soon find themselves fighting each other. As the lean, cold-eyed cobra-quick gunfighter, Clint became the first of the Western's anti-herores. The cynical enigmatic loner with a clouded past is the same character Eastwood fans have been savouring ever since. A Fistful Of Dollars is the western taken to the extreme - with unremitting violence, gritty realism and tongue-in-cheek humour. Leone's direction is taut and stylish, and the visuals are striking - from the breathtaking panoramas (in Spain) to the extreme close-ups of quivering lips and darting eyes before the shoot-out begins. And all are accentuated by renowned composer Ennio Morricone's quirky, haunting score.

For A Few Dollars More: Clint Eastwood had proven so successful in his first foray into European Westerns with A Fistful Of Dollars that a follow up sequel was inevitable. Superbly scripted by Luciano Vincenzoni, featuring an unforgettable alliance between ruthless gun-slingers to track down the notorious bandit El Indio, played by Gian Maria Volonte. The film is also noted for its array of weaponry, a veritable arsenal of rifles that became so startingly influential in future westerns. Sergio Leone's direction is both violent and operatic and Ennio Morricone's atmospheric score keeps the tension taut as the action moves from jail breaks and hold ups to spectacular gun battles.

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly: By far the most ambitious, unflinchingly graphic and stylistically influential western ever attempted, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is an engrossing actioner shot through with a volatile mix of myth and realism. Clint Eastwood returns for a final appearance as the invincible Man With No Name, this time teaming with two gunslingers (Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef) to pursue a cache of $200,000 - and letting no one, not even warring factions in a civil war, stand in their way. From sun-drenched panoramas to bold hard closeups, 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 in true Clint Eastwood style. The complex plot of bloodshed and betrayal winds its way through the American Civil War, filmed to resemble the French battlefields of WW1, to end in a climactic Dance of Death. Arguably the quintessential Italian Western, this 1966 film boasts a fine Ennio Morricone score, featuring a main theme that reached No.1 in the world's pop charts.

Customer Reviews

Amongst The Best Films Ever Made.
I'm just wondering as to how much detail I should provide about these classic films, because chances are that anyone looking to purchase this box set will have already seen them in their original format. The films speak for themselves, and so you'll just have to watch them to appreciate them, because to be frank, no review can epitomize the quintessential quality of film-making within this trilogy. I've read elsewhere that some people thought the restoration process desecrated the quality and enjoyment of the originals. I own both the original and remastered sets, and I think that they did a good job revamping the picture, sound, and implementing the new footage and voice overs. Ultimately, the new footage corrects a couple of continuity problems endemic to the original versions, particularly for The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly. Well worth buying, you shan't be disappointed.

Leone made a second trilogy.
The second trilogy also had an almost silent, nicknamed, Eastwood like character:
1) Once Upon a Time in the West, Charles Bronson, with Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Claudia Cardinale. Set in the middle 1880's, usually considered Leone's best.
2) Once Upon a Time the Revolution (C'era una volta la rivoluzione)(but released as A Fistful of Dynamite, and alternately as Duck,You Sucker!) Charles Bronson with Rod Steiger. 1910's-1920's. A real favorite of mine, very political movie.
3) Once Upon a Time in America, Robert Di Niro with James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Tuesday Weld. 1910's-1940's. A masterpiece gangster film.

just fab!
I recieved this box set for christmas - its brilliant! Even the extra bits are interesting - especially the 'then & now' photos.