The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Special 2-Disc Collector's Edition
"Perhaps it is the subtly foreign flavor of the spaghetti trilogy, and especially the masterpiece 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,' that suggests the films come from a different universe than traditional Westerns. Instead of tame Hollywood extras from central casting, we get locals who must have been hired near the Spanish locations--men who look long-weathered by work and the sun. Consider the legless beggar who uses his arms to propel himself into a saloon, shouting, 'Hand me down a whiskey!'" John Ford made Monument Valley the home turf of his Western characters, and he made great films there, but there is something new and strange about Leone's menacing Spanish vistas. We haven't seen these deserts before. John Wayne has never been here. Leone's stories are a heightened dream in which everything is bigger, starker, more brutal, more dramatic, than life." --- Roger Ebert A great musical score by Ennio Morricone. With Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef. DVD
Curator's Comments: Read Roger Ebert's essay on this DVD Classic. Director: Sergio Leone Country: Italy/Spain
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