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Description: Disc 1: FISTFUL OF DOLLARS Disc 2: FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE Disc 3: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLYAmazon.com: 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
Customer Reviews:
- classic good vs. evil: some of the best westerns ever made. this trio will never be eclipsed for the style, musical score and superior acting.
- The best: Ok, so you like old westerns ...... THE THIS is the BEST of all, i bought the western pack of clint eastwood and this one, i first watched the western pack with, Unforgiven, Pale rider and the outlaw Jesse wales, i did like those, they are not bad, but a part from unforgiven they were missing something or having way to much on the history, now with No man Trilogy its another thing, its perfect old western movie, simple to the point history with a few sort of tiwsts, but the important thing its the actors and the way its develop, witch its just great!!!!! you gotta see The good the bad and the ugly!!!! besides some of then you can watch it on wide screen format or standart!!!.
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- Not my favorite movie, But...: My favorite line in all the movies. When its time to shoot, shoot, Don't talk! I watched it last night, boy the pizza was delicious.
- I got this for a better price!: I bought this at Target for $17.99!! It's an Xmas gift for my husband, sure hope he likes it :)
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