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Anamorphic
widescreen |
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Dolby Digital
5.1 |
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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
feature |
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Hunchback:
Well, well... If it isn't the smoker... Remember me, amigo?
Mortimer: [shaking his head] M-mh.
Hunchback: Course you do. El Paso.
Mortimer: [smiling] It's a small world.
Hunchback: Yes, and very, very bad. Now come on, you light another
match... [turning the back of his neck towards Mortimer]
Mortimer: I generally smoke just after I eat. Why don't
you come back in 'bout ten minutes...
Two
bounty hunters team up reluctantly in hunting down a notorious killer.
The
second film in the Eastwood/Leone 'Dollars Trilogy', For a Few Dollars
More sees a vast improvement upon Fistful of Dollars in the
addition of Lee van Cleef. His role as the mysterious Grim Reaper-like
bounty hunter with the twinkle in his eye not only provides Eastwood
with an interesting character to react to, it also adds a bit of weight
to the otherwise paper-thin story. The obvious fun the two actors have
and the often delicious stylistic touches that Leone spreads around
the movie almost make up for the fact that the movie is much too long,
as several sequences are drawn out beyond every reasonable length. As
there isn't all that much ever happening in the story department, this
would have been a real classic had it been edited down to 100 minutes.
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Region
1 and Region 2 releases have different cover art but are otherwise identical.
The widescreen image is letterboxed
at 2.35:1. It provides an excellent picture even though it isn't
anamorphic. Colors are very pale and washed out, but this is due
to the cheap widescreen process (called Techniscope) that was used
in shooting this picture. There are some defects in the source print,
but this is the best the picture has ever looked, certainly on home
video.
The Dolby Digital 1.0 mono sound is truly awful: it sounds tinny
and shallow, and the American voices are very badly dubbed.
The
theatrical trailer is the only extra feature on the disc. A 'collectable
booklet' is included in the box, and for once it actually has some interesting,
worthwhile information in there! The
menus use art from the DVD cover, enlivened with some subtle animation
and background sounds. The movie title is seen on a wooden sign that swings
gently back and forth, and a 'Wanted' poster shows a clip from the movie
in black-and-white.
Dan Hassler-Forest
Reviewed: 2001
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