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| The Man with No Name Trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) |  | Directors: Monte Hellman, Sergio Leone
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volonté, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach, Marianne Koch
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  89 reviews
Sales Rank: 4,069
Format: Subtitled, Color, Letterboxed, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 3
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 392 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.5 x 1.9
MPN: MGMD907859D
ISBN: 0792842502
UPC: 027616785923
EAN: 9780792842507
ASIN: 0792842502
Theatrical Release Date: December 29, 1967
Release Date: October 5, 1999
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Genre: Westerns
Rating: R
Release Date: 5-JUN-2001
Media Type: DVD
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Sergio Leone's trilogy of operatic spaghetti Westerns with Clint Eastwood made the former TV star into an international sensation as the scraggly, silent Man with No Name, a wandering rogue with a scheming mind and a sense of humor drier than the dusty, wind-scoured desert. With A Fistful of Dollars, a blatant rip-off of Kurosawa's cynical samurai hit Yojimbo, Leone transforms the Western hero into a crafty mercenary. The follow-up, For a Few Dollars More, teams Eastwood up in an uneasy alliance with Lee Van Cleef in a tale of revenge, but the masterpiece of the set is The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, an epic scramble for buried gold set against the violence of the Civil War. In this film good is a relative term as three criminals make a series of tenuous partnerships broken in double-crosses and betrayals in Leone's epic vision of the American southwest as endless deserts and clapboard towns infested with gunmen. This was a new kind of Western: cynical, violent, stylish, and austere. Eastwood's rough face and squinting eyes fill the widescreen frame in massive close-ups while Leone stages action in bold compositions on empty streets and stark landscapes. The guns ring out in cartoonish exaggeration, and the music, an eclectic, electric mix of buzzing guitar, human voice, and harmonica by Ennio Morricone, sets the whole thing in a world pitched between myth and modernity. Leone's shot-in-Spain trilogy ushered in a flood of Italian spaghetti Westerns, but none hold a candle to Leone's stylish classics. --Sean Axmaker
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 Review of DVD features March 20, 2000
Steve C. Yabut (PA USA)
24 out of 25 found this review helpful
A good series to own, if you like westerns or Eastwood. I'll just comment on the DVD features. The video reproductions of "A Fistfull of Dollars" and "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." are excellent. The reproduction of "For a Few Dollars More" left a lot to be desired. This one must have been reproduced from an imperfect source because a lot of dust floaters are present which is only really distracting during nighttime scenes. Not a lot of extras included, a few trailers and for the "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" some extra minutes from deleted scenes.
Bang... peoooowwwwww! July 10, 2000
Mr. A. Pomeroy (Wiltshire, England)
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
Three classic, genre-busting Westerns in a shiny box, which, despite being filmed in Spain, seem to capture the sense of time and place more effectively than a million and one Hollywood equivalents. The atmosphere of casual brutality and offhand killing was unique at the time, and although 'The Wild Bunch' was considerably more bloody, Sam Peckinpah was trying to turn his gunfighters into heroes with a capital 'H', and not the ambiguous anti-heroes presented here. Here, the main characters shoot first, the villains are nasty, and everybody is generally amoral and out for number one. 'Fistful of Dollars' borrows a plot from Akira Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' (recently re-borrowed as Bruce Willis' 'Last Man Standing'), and introduces Clint Eastwood as the coolest man in the world, one capable of shooting the cigarillo from the mouth of a man standing on top of a house, three hundred yards away, without flinching. 'A Few Dollars More' introduces Lee Van Cleef as a more traditional 'hero', and 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly' (a prequel to the other two films, although it is not obviously so) immediately subverts this by using Van Cleef, playing a different character, as 'The Bad', as well as Eli Wallach in an archetypally ratty role.Apart from the tone, the other thing that sets these films apart is the look. The constant, extreme close-ups of the faces of sweaty people are quite disturbing on a wide-screen television, although you'll need one for the alternating long-shots. Not to be overlooked is Ennio Morricone's astonishing music, a lovably over-the-top mixture of all kinds of orchestral and non-orchestral instruments, complete with operatic 'leitmotifs'. The tone of the films is one of extreme excess, both in terms of style and content - 'GBU' has an enormous civil war battle almost as set dressing, and a haunting, odd ending in a vast graveyard - and it works perfectly. The only shame is that they didn't go the whole hog and include 'Once Upon a Time in America' (or 'Fistful of Dynamite'), but then again it wouldn't be the 'Man with No Name' trilogy, would it? Also of note is the only other remotely famous Spaghetti western saga, the 'Django' films, which have a cult following. Note that the 'gunfire / ricochet' noise appears to be exactly the same all the way throughout each film. On DVD you get a bunch of extra things, most notable some more scenes to 'The Good...', and some amusing trailers - the one for 'Fistful of Dollars' reveals that Clint Eastwood used an assumed name, and plays up the violence as if it was the first ever film to include shooting.
Three of the best westerns ever. October 23, 2001
Terence (Boston, MA United States)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is a great package with three incredible movies. They're all very good westerns. Although it is a trilogy, the movies aren't very connected plot-wise. However, each can stand on its own very well. The DVD package comes with deleted scenes and trailers, which is very nice. Some of the scenes from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly help explain other parts of the movie better. Overall a great deal for any Clint Eastwood or Western genre fan.
Greatest movie trilogy . . . ever. June 1, 2000
Mic (USA)
22 out of 26 found this review helpful
When making these classic films, Sergio Leone (the director of the Man With No Name Trilogy) copied no one (except for Akira Kurosawa). He defied the cliches that were entrenched in the modern Western film. The Man With No Name Trilogy consists of three films: A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. These films contain no heroes. Instead, the films follow the adventures of a seemingly-invinsible "super-gunfighter" (Clint Eastwood). Heroes are given names. We are never told what Eastwood's character's real name is. He is referred to as "Joe" or "Blondie," but his real name is never revealed. Hence, he has become the legendary Man With No Name. These films are brilliant. The plots are cleverly conceived. These films made Eastwood into an internation superstar. After watching these films, you will wonder why it took an Italian director to make the best Western films ever to hit the silver screen. Amazon.com offers a great price on this trilogy and it's well worth the investment. You will spend many hours analyzing the exploits of the enigmatic Man With No Name.
Clint Eastwood: The Man With No Name - A Trilogy December 31, 2000
Brian C. Young (www.taebostore.com)
17 out of 20 found this review helpful
Clint Eastwood is the "man with no name." Italian director Sergio Leone directed what many believe are to be the Top 3 films of all time! Beginning with "A Fistful of Dollars" (copied from the Japanese samurai film "Yo Jimbo") Clint Eastwood rides into a town with two bosses. "For A Few Dollars More" betters on the first. Includes Lee Van Cleef as supporting actor. Two Bounty Killers team up to kill a common foe: One wronged by Indio, the head bank robber. "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" is the best of the lot, complete with a haunting musical score by Ennio Morricone. Who could forget the shrilling cry in the opening credits? "Ahh-ee-ahh-ee-iii! Wa...Wa...Wa..." The collaboration of Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone is what makes these films work. "Spaghetti Westerns" don't waste time with the conventional "cowboys and indians." They focus more on the loners, the gunslingers, the bandits. This DVD Trilogy is the DEFINITIVE COLLECTION. Includes original theatrical trailers, bonus footage, behind the scenes, and much, much more! For more film/music greats look for Leone and Morricone collaborating on "Once Upon A Time in the West" (starring Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, and Henry Fonda), "A Fistful of Dynamite" aka "Duck You Sucker" (James Coburn, and "Once Upon A Time In America" (Robert DeNiro, James Woods). These films are the best, the peak in Western Cinemas.
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