A Fistful of Dollars (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
by Monte Hellman, Sergio Leone
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Actor: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volonté, Marianne Koch, Sieghardt Rupp, Wolfgang LukschyDirector: Monte Hellman, Sergio Leone
Brand: Sony
Writer: A. Bonzzoni
Writer: Akira Kurosawa
Writer: Duccio Tessari
Writer: Fernando Di Leo
Writer: Jaime Comas Gil
Writer: Mark Lowell
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-05
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of A Fistful of Dollars (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: A DVD worth many fistfuls of dollars
Summary: 5 Stars
(This review refers to the new 2-disc "collector's edition" released in 2007.)
A Fistful of Dollars kicked off a new era for the western, a tried and true--and, by 1964, almost exhausted--cinematic genre that needed a fresh start. Audiences had grown cynical and tired of the white-hat/black-hat simplicity of most western classics and, as with the waning war-film genre, were looking for something different.
Enter Sergio Leone and A Fistful of Dollars, a gritty "Italian western" shot in Spain on a shoestring budget and starring an up-and-coming--but still virtually unknown--television actor named Clint Eastwood. The movie was a huge international hit, launched Eastwood into stardom, and spawned two subsequent "Man With No Name" westerns and dozens of imitations.
MGM's new release of this classic "new western" is outstanding. In recent years, I've been pleased every time MGM has issued a new release of a classic from its library, as every new edition has improved vastly upon those previous.
Picture quality: Excellent anamorphic transfer, diligently tidied up and restored. Outstanding.
Sound quality: Includes the requisite original mono track and an excellent new surround-sound mix.
Special features: Very good. An informative commentary track by film historian Sir Christopher Frayling is accompanied by a second disc including several nice featurettes, none of which are boring and none of which are so long that they wear out their welcome. I watched most of them while getting ready in the morning.
If you've been waiting for a good edition of A Fistful of Dollars, this is it.
Highly recommended.
Summary of A Fistful of Dollars (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
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