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Good, the Bad & the Ugly, The (Extended Version Collector's Set)
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Starring: Eastwood, Clint Cleef, Lee Van Cleef, Lee Van Pistilli, Luigi Rassimov, Rada Giuffre, Aldo Alonso, Chelo Brega, Mario Brega, Mario Scarchilli, Claudio
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Director: Leone, Sergio Rating: R Running Time: 2 Hours 59 Minutes
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Category: Westerns User Rating: 8.7/10 (IMDB) Color Stereo
Amazon.com essential video Clint Eastwood (the Man with No Name) is good, Lee Van Cleef (Angel Eyes Sentenza) is bad, and Eli Wallach (Tuco Benedito Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez) is ugly in the final chapter of Sergio Leone's trilogy of spaghetti westerns (the first two were A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More). In this sweeping film, the characters form treacherous alliances in a ruthless quest for Confederate gold. Leone is sometimes underrated as a director, but the excellent resolution on this digital video disc should enhance appreciation of his considerable photographic talent and gorgeous widescreen compositions. Ennio Morricone's jokey score is justifiably famous. The digital video disc includes about a quarter-hour of footage not seen in the original release. --This text refers to the DVD edition. DVD features This two-disc special edition presents the restored, extended English-language version of Leone's The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, now clocking in at almost three hours. It includes some 14 minutes of previously cut scenes, with both Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach returning to the editing suite in 2003 to add their voices to scenes that had never before been dubbed into English (Wallach's voice is noticeably that of a much older man in these additional sequences). The extra material contains... read more
Man from Snowy River, The
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Starring: Douglas, Kirk Burlinson, Tom Thornton, Sigrid Donovan, Terence
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Director: Miller, George Rating: Running Time: 20th Century Fox Home Video
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Category: Westerns User Rating: Color Mono
Description: After his father's death, young Jim Craig leaves his home in the Snowy River valley to work for a wealthy landlord, who happens to be the estranged brother of Jim's mentor, a grizzled old prospector. While fighting to earn his spurs by breaking a herd of wild horses, Jim falls in love with his employer's spunky daughter. A sequel of this family favorite, Return to Snowy River, followed. DVD Features: Region 1 Keep Case Full Frame - 1.33 Single Side - Dual Layer
Outlaw Josey Wales, The
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Starring: Eastwood, Clint Locke, Sondra George, Chief Dan Locke, Sondra McKinney, Bill Vernon, John Trueman, Paula Bottoms, Sam Bottoms, Sam Eastwood. Clint
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Director: Eastwood, Clint Rating: PG Running Time: 136 Minutes
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Category: Westerns User Rating: 7.6/10 (IMDB) Color Dolby
Amazon.com essential video During the Civil War, Union "Redlegs" attack Southerner Josey Wales's dirt farm and wipe out his family. Seeking vengeance, Wales throws in with a company of Reb guerrillas. Tagged as a renegade after the surrender, he flees west into the vastness of the Indian Territories, where, quite unintentionally, he finds himself cast as the straight-shooting paterfamilias of an ever-growing, spectacularly motley community of misfits and castaways. Which is to say, Josey's personal quest for survival and something like peace of mind evolves into a funky, multicultural allegory of the healing of America. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Clint Eastwood's 31st film as an actor, 20th as international star, and 5th as director, was the first to win him widespread respect. Critics had grumbled when the producer-star replaced Philip Kaufman (The Right Stuff) in the director's chair a week into shooting. They ended up cheering when Eastwood delivered both his most sympathetic performance to date and--with the heroic collaboration of cinematographer Bruce Surtees--an impressive Panavision epic that stresses the scruffiness, rather than the scenic splendors, of frontier life. Though it's been honored with a place in the National Film Registry, Josey Wales is good, not great, Eastwood. The big-gun fetishism can get tiresome, and too many characters exist only to serve as six-gun (and at one point Gatling gun) fodder. But mostly the film is agreeably eccentric, and almost furtively sweet in spirit--a key transitional title in the Eastwood filmography, and one of his most entertaining. --Richard T. Jameson
Return to Snowy River
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Starring: Burlinson, Tom Thornton, Sigrid Dennehy, Brian Thornton, Sigrid Hembrow, Mark Marshall, Bryan McConnochie, Rhys Cummins, Peter Cummins, Peter Barry, Tony
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Director: Burrowes, Geoff Rating: PG Running Time: 1 Hour 39 Minutes
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Category: Westerns User Rating: 5.5/10 (IMDB) Color Stereo
Description Australia's breathtaking Victoria Alps set the backdrop for this spectacular epic saga. Tom Burlinson and Sigrid Thornton, two of Australia's brightest film talents, star in a fast-paced, action-packed story of a stormy romance caught up in a violent feud between landowners. Acclaimed actor Brian Dennehy (LEGAL EAGLES, COCOON) gives a gripping performance as the powerful patriarch determined to keep them apart. Visually unforgettable and packed with rugged adventure and masterful stuntwork, RETURN TO SNOWY RIVER is a thrilling and memorable film!
Unforgiven
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Starring: Eastwood, Clint Hackman, Gene Alder, Eugene Freeman, Morgan Harris, Richard Woolvett, Jaimz Fisher, Frances Levine, Anna Levine, Anna Campbell, Rob
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Director: Eastwood, Clint Rating: R Running Time: 2 Hours 11 Minutes
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Category: Westerns User Rating: 8.1/10 (IMDB) Color Dolby
Amazon.com essential video Winner of four Academy Awards, including best picture, director, supporting actor, and best editing, Clint Eastwood's 1992 masterpiece stands as one of the greatest and most thematically compelling Westerns ever made. "The movie summarized everything I feel about the Western," said Eastwood at the time of the film's release. "The moral is the concern with gunplay." To illustrate that theme, Eastwood stars as a retired, once-ruthless killer-turned-gentle-widower and hog farmer. He accepts one last bounty-hunter mission--to find the men who brutalized a prostitute--to help support his two motherless children. Joined by his former partner (Morgan Freeman) and a cocky greenhorn (Jaimz Woolvett), he takes on a corrupt sheriff (Oscar winner Gene Hackman) in a showdown that makes the viewer feel the full impact of violence and its corruption of the soul. Dedicated to Eastwood's mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel and featuring a colorful role for Richard Harris, it's arguably Eastwood's crowning directorial achievement. --Jeff Shannon