MGM Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Collector's Edition for 18th May 2004 with a retail price of $29.98. Sergio Leone's classic spaghetti western starring Clint Eastwood as the man with no name has been fully restored with an additional 18 minutes of footage for this two-disc collector's edition that will boast the following line-up of features...
- 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"
Here is a look at the special edition packaging...
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Does this mean the other two in the trilogy are going to get the SE treatment?
That link also mentions that only the 162 minute was dubbed in English, does that mean this film was post-dubbed? and not sync-sound then?, and therefore the Italian soundtrack doesn't have Clint's voice in it?
Also surely fans would prefer an English mono soundtrack too? (not that it would bother me).
Oh so many questions :D
p.s - I'm sure this is the press releases fault and not yours but there is no such thing as 'Cantonese' or 'Mandarin' subtitles (or any other Chinese dialect for that matter, it is a common mistake though). They of course mean 'Traditional Chinese' or 'Simplified Chinese' subtitles.
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I hate it when films are tampered with after release (Mr Lucas take a bow) - unless you are digitally cleaning them up, like the recent release of Indy, then it is wrong and there is no point. Stand by your original cut is what I say.
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Cantonese (spoken widely in Hong Kong and parts of South China, hence it's popularity in films), Mandarin (the 'Official' Chinese language), Hokien (which is spoken in Malaysia and parts of China), Shanghainese and the like are all spoken dialects/languages but none are written languages the two written languages are either: 'Traditional Chinese' or 'Simplified Chinese' subtitles.
The former came first and was later simplified because it was felt to complicated to learn (I'm no expert on this mind). All Chinese people no matter where they come from write in one (or both) of the written languages. Unlike most Western languages the written word is not the same as the spoken word. There is only two written Chinese languages but there are many, many more spoken ones (I don't know the exact number but it's in the double figures).
The confusion therefore lies for Western people who think like say English spoken and English written they must be the same.
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JimdiGriz - There will definitely be an R2, in fact it looks as though we might get it first sometime in April. Unfortunately we're still waiting on the R2 March announcements from MGM so unless they do an early announcement on this one it'll be some time until the official details come through.
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Give me dodgy sync-sound anyday. I really couldn't image anything good about an Eastwood dub, his voice is so unique.
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I mean, we can only hope - Leone is very fashionable in the DVD district right now, no doubt because of the recent Once upon... discs.
Here's hoping...:)
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