Clint Eastwood Collection Box Set (Blu-ray)

[uk-guy]

up for pre-order on 06/09/10 @ hmv £33.99

http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProduct...;-1&sku=723576



A Fistful Of Dollars: The first of the 'spaghetti westerns', A Fistful Of Dollars became an instant cult hit and launched the film careers of Italian Writer-Director Sergio Leone, and a little known American television actor named Clint Eastwood. As the lean, cold eyed cobra-quick gunfighter - Clint became the first of the 'anti heroes'. A Fistful Of Dollars is the western taken to the extreme - with unremitting violence, gritty realism, tongue-in-cheek humour and striking visuals.

For A Few Dollars More: A Fistful of Dollars had proven so successful that a sequel was inevitable. The superbly scripted For A Few Dollars More tells the tale of a ruthless quest to track down the notorious bandit El Indio, played by Gian Maria Volonte, by an unforgettable alliance between ruthless gun-slingers Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef. Sergio Leone's direction is both violent and operatic and Ennio Morricone's atmospheric score keeps the tension taut as the action moves from jail breaks and hold ups to spectacular gun battles.

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly: In the third of Eastwood's spaghetti trilogy Director Sergio Leone substitutes the upright puritan Protestant ethos, so familiar in Hollywood westerns, for a seedy cynical standpoint towards death and morality. The complex plot of bloodshed and betrayal winds its way through the American Civil War following a team of brutal bandits battling to unearth a fortune buried beneath an unmarked grave, and boasts a fine Ennio Morricone score featuring a main theme that reached No.1 in the world's pop charts.

Hang 'Em High: They riddled him with bullets. They strung him up. They left him to die. But they made two fatal mistakes: they hanged the wrong man... and they didn't finish the job. In his first American-made western, Clint Eastwood indelibly carves his niche as the quintessential tough guy - cool-headed, iron-willed and unrelenting in the pursuit of revenge.

[HotRats]

That's a bizarre box, anyone who's bought the Spaghetti Western Collection box is going to be delighted to find out that £1 more would have got them Hang 'Em High. I see the HMV listing says Warner Brothers, a typo or has the MGM film library changed hands from Fox?

[uk-guy]

Originally Posted by HotRats

That's a bizarre box, anyone who's bought the Spaghetti Western Collection box is going to be delighted to find out that £1 more would have got them Hang 'Em High. I see the HMV listing says Warner Brothers, a typo or has the MGM film library changed hands from Fox?

I added the larger cover and the MGM logo is clearly on the spine but the listed data from blu-ray.com shows the studio as fox

[dallywhitty]

Poo. I don't know whether to purchase this or the Spaghetti Western Collection.

[blu_sharpy]

Originally Posted by uk-guy

I added the larger cover and the MGM logo is clearly on the spine but the listed data from blu-ray.com shows the studio as fox

Its most likely a mistake but to remember that 20th Century Fox distribute MGM titles on Home Video.

[HotRats]

I had hoped this rapid reissue meant MGM had finally agreed to Warners' $1.5billion offer and we were going to see Fox products being replaced with Warner ones. I just don't see what Fox's reasoning is behind a renamed reissue (with an extra film) after only three months or so

[The Driver]

Just noticed this for September 2010.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003U6H7L6/
http://www.play.com/DVD/Blu-ray/4-/1...t/Product.html

Slightly smaller image there for those who don't use a 42" plasma for surfing the Web