50-årsjubileumsutgave av The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Clint Eastwood som «Blondie», mannen uten navn, i The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Den legendariske westernklassikeren The Good, the Bad and the Ugly har fylt 50 år. Det går selvsagt ikke upåaktet hen.

På verdens største videomarked – USA – sørger Kino Lorber for at det kommer en ny «50th Anniversary Blu-ray» av Sergio Leones ikoniske film fra 1966.

(Den hadde premiere 23. desember 1966 i Italia.)

Filmen var tredje og siste del av «dollar-trilogien»: A Fistful of Dollars (1964) og For a Few Dollars More (1965), og var det tredje samarbeidet mellom Clint Eastwood i rollen som «Blondie» og italienske Sergio Leone, som skapte spagetthiwesternsjangeren.

Mens samtiden ga The Good, the Bad and the Ugly solid omsetning på kino, var kritikerne ofte negative, men tiden har vært snill mot filmen.

Den regnes nå som en av de mest innflytelsesrike innen westernsjangeren og en av verdens beste filmer.

Utgivelsen kommer i USA 15. august 2017, og skal inkludere den opprinnelige amerikanske kinoversjonen i High Definition for første gang, samt den utvidede utgaven.

Begge skal være remastret i 4K, men dessverre er det ingen informasjon om evt 4K UHD-utgivelse.

 

2-disc-settet vil inneholde mye ekstramateriale.

Disc 1:

4K transfer of the Original “161 minute” Theatrical Cut
New Audio Commentary by Film Historian Tim Lucas
“Trailers From Hell” with Ernest Dickerson
M.O.S. Deleted Scene of Blondie in the desert finding skeletons
Newly Restored 2.0 Mono Audio
Trailers for Sergio Leone Westerns
Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
English DTS-HD MA 5.1 Audio
Animated Image Galleries

Disc 2:

4K transfer of the “179 Minute” Extended Cut
Newly Restored 2.0 Mono Audio
Audio Commentary By Acclaimed Film Historian Richard Schickel
Audio Commentary By Noted Cultural Historian Christopher Frayling
Leone’s West: Making Of Documentary
The Leone Style: On Sergio Leone Featurette
The Man Who Lost The Civil War: Civil War Documentary
Reconstruction The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
II Maestro: Ennio Morricone and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Featurette
Deleted Scenes
Original U.S. Theatrical Trailer
Original French Theatrical Trailer
English DTS-HD MA 5.1 Audio
Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
with optional English subtitles

Besides the color correction (removing the yellowishness) we also made the following corrections and adjustments to create our 161 Minute cut of the Theatrical version:

• The “flip cut” transition/optical wipe from “Tuco talking to Blondie and taking a bite of his cigar to being hung” was restored to its original version
• The fadeout to black of the “gun shop owner with the sign in his mouth” scene is now a cut to exodus scene.
• The fadeout of the “Blondie passing out as Tuco is bringing him water” scene happens exactly 1 second later than how it was on old MGM DVD release of the Theatrical Cut.
• The dissolve from “night” scene to “coach arriving at the mission” scene now fades up from black
• The shot of the train leaving the station (with Tuco and Wallace on it) was supposedly longer in the US theatrical cut, before cutting directly to Tuco in the train and not dissolving out earlier to the early morning camp scene – Our 4K of the 161 minute cut matches the old MGM DVD of the theatrical cut exactly.