Product Description
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Subtitle information:
A Fistful of Dollars: English for the Hearing Impaired
For a Few Dollars More: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French,
Norwegian, Swedish and English for the Hearing Impaired.
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Croation, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
Finnish, French, Greek, Hebrew, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese,
Romanian, Slovene, Swedish, Turkish and English for the hearing
impaired.
Hang ‘Em High: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish,
Portuguese,Swedish, English and German for the hearing impaired.
From .co.uk
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Contains the three great Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns: A
Fistful Of Dollars; For A Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad
And The Ugly as well as Hang 'Em High.
Sergio Leone (
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trilogy of operatic spaghetti Westerns with Clint Eastwood (
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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 humour drier than the dusty,
wind-scoured desert. With A Fistful of Dollars, a blatant rip-off
of Kurosawa (
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cynical samurai hit Yojimbo (
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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 men. 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
s ring out in cartoonish exaggeration, and the music, an
eclectic, electric mix of buzzing guitar, human voice, and
harmonica by Ennio Morricone (
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sets the whole thing in a world pitched between myth and
modernity. Leone's -in-Spain trilogy ushered in a flood of
Italian spaghetti Westerns, but none hold a candle to Leone's
stylish classics. --Sean Axmaker, .com
Hang 'Em High--After starring in the now-legendary trilogy of
spaghetti Westerns for Italian director Sergio Leone, Clint
Eastwood became a box-office star and imported the style of those
classic shoot-em-ups for this 1967 Western directed by Ted Post,
with whom Eastwood had worked during their days on the television
series Rawhide. Eastwood plays an innocent rancher who is
mistaken for a cattle rustler and sentenced to hang by an angry
mob. When he is saved from the noose by a passing lawman, he
embarks on a renegade campaign of vengeance against the men who
attempted to lynch him. Hang 'Em High offers a number of
memorable moments and stylistic flourishes, and features a superb
supporting cast of Western veterans, including Ben Johnson, Ed
Begley, Pat Hingle, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern, LQ Jones, and the
"Skipper" himself, Alan Hale Jr. Made just three years before
Dirty Harry (
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film marked a turning point for Eastwood, who would soon move
into a prolific period of contemporary thrillers. --Jeff Shannon,
.com