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Clint Eastwood Movies
The Man With No Name Trilogy
(A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
The Dirty Harry Collection
(Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact,
The Dead Pool)
The Man With No Name Trilogy
(DVD)
(A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
Starring: Clint Eastwood
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.
Encoding: Region 1 (US and Canada only)
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Box set
Rated: Not for sale to persons under age 18.
Studio: Mgm/Ua Studios
DVD Features:
The Clint Eastwood Giftset Contains the Following (see individual title listings for complete details):
"A Fistful of Dollars" (1964, Letterboxed/P&S 2.35:1, 102 min.), "For a Few Dollars More" (1966, Letterboxed 2.35:1, 131 min.), "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (1966, Anamorphic 2.35:1, 162 min.)
Widescreen letterbox format
Number of discs: 3
Other Formats: VHS
The Dirty Harry Collection
(DVD)
(Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, The Dead Pool)
Starring: Clint Eastwood
Encoding: Region 1 (US and Canada only)
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Box set, Dolby
Rated: Not for sale to persons under age 18.
Studio: Warner Studios
DVD Features:
5-disc Box Set
See individual titles for complete DVD details
Number of discs: 5
Other Formats: VHS
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