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widescreen |
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Dolby Digital
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DTS |
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Trailer(s) |
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Featurette(s) |
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Documentary |
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Audio commentary
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Deleted scenes
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Concept art
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Multi-angle
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'Get
three coffins ready...'
A
mysterious stranger hires himself as a mercenary to both warring gangs
in a small town.
This
is the first of the Leone/Eastwood 'Man with no Name Trilogy', also
known as the 'Dollars Trilogy', and I find it the weakest of the three.
It is a direct remake of Kurosawa's action comedy classic Yojimbo
and though it has a sense of style all its own, its sensibility and
sense of humor are strongly indebted to its source material. It has
several moments of fun and wry wit, but it can barely sustain its own
length and feels much more heavy-handed than Yojimbo.
Eastwood clearly has his image-defining role down pat from the start
as it requires him to do very little more than squint and scroll like
he doesn't give a damn, but there is very little for him to play against
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The Region 1 and Region 2 releases have
different packaging but are otherwise identical.
The
widescreen image is framed at 2.35:1 and is not anamorphic. Colors are
muted and the picture lacks definition, but this is mostly due to the
poor source material, which was shot using the El Cheapo Italian widescreen
process Techniscope that hasn't aged very well and probably wasn't that
great-looking to begin with. All this notwithstanding, this is certainly
the best this movie has ever looked on home video.
The soundtrack is presented in Dolby 1.0 mono and is poorly dubbed.
The
theatrical trailer is the only extra feature. The
menus use poster art and some basic design to present what little material
there is on the DVD.
Dan Hassler-Forest
Reviewed: 2001
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