The Blu-rays of virtually all Leone's films spit on his legacy. The only one that doesn't is Ripley's restored version of A Fistful of Dollars.
I own a few other of the Italian Blu-rays and they are all disgraceful.
Examples:
For a Few Dollars More:
Missing opening card about the bounty hunters
Contains day-for-night scene which hasn't been corrected
Slightly censored
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly:
Missing lots of frames
Duck, You Sucker!:
Horrible Ritrovata restoration
Incomplete title sequence
Contains random frames from one scene in another
Audio suddenly changes from English to Italian
I'm working on creating English-friendly custom versions of all Sergio Leone films in the best quality possible, aside from AFOD for reason mentioned and OUATITW because none of the Director's Cut scenes are available in HD.
Very sad to see that 4K restorations which haven't been released have also been ****ed around with by Ritrovata who seemingly take pride in destroying the integrity of all the films they get their hands on. Now it seems as if they will be involved in the Arrow 4K restorations of Argento's Phenomena and two other titles (likely Inferno and The Bird with the Crystal Plumage).
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