A Fistful of Dollars (Blu-Ray, Limited Edition, Region B)

 

It wasn't really the first film of its kind, but the western all'Italiana - or "spaghetti Western" - was never the same again after Sergio Leone's groundbreaking A Fistful of Dollars, starring Clint Eastwood in the classic role that made him an international icon.

A nameless stranger (Eastwood) rides into the Mexican border town of San Miguel and quickly finds himself in the middle of a bloody battle for power between two rival families, the Baxters and the Rojos. Cannily realising there's money to be made from playing each side against the other, the Man with No Name soon finds himself caught in the crossfire as the body count escalates, his only chance of escape a standoff against the Rojos' mercilessly cruel leader, Ramón (Gian Maria Volonté).

Leone's clever and contemporary inversion of Western archetypes was not only the first entry in a much-beloved trilogy, but the director's first collaboration with the brilliant composer Ennio Morricone. Now fully uncut and freshly restored in glorious 4K with an arsenal of new and old bonus material, the Man with No Name rides again like never before!

Product Features

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella
• Perfect bound collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Henry Blyth, Bilge Ebiri, Pasquale Iannone and Eloise Ross
• Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella

DISC 1 - FEATURE

• New 4K restoration from the original 2-perf Techniscope negative
• High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation
• Original English and Italian front and end titles
• Newly restored original lossless English and Italian mono audio
• Optional newly remixed lossless English and Italian DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
• Optional English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
• Audio commentary by film historian and Leone biographer Sir Christopher Frayling
• Audio commentary by film historian and critic Tim Lucas
• Trailers, TV spots and radio spots

DISC 2 - EXTRAS

• When It All Started, a newly filmed interview with film historian and critic Fabio Melelli
• Four Fingers Four Picks, a newly filmed interview with guitarist Bruno Battisti D'Amario
• Wind & Fire, a newly filmed interview with Morricone biographer Alessandro de Rosa
• A Night at the Movies, a newly filmed interview with filmmaker Paolo Bianchini
• A Fistful of Outtakes, highlights from the original rushes
• The Day the Soundtrack Changed, a new visual essay by musician and disc collector Lovely Jon exploring the film's iconic score
• Marisol: Leone's Madonna of the West, an archival interview with co-star Marianne Koch
• The Frayling Archives and A New Kind of Hero, two archival interviews with Sir Christopher Frayling
• A Few Weeks in Spain, an archival interview with Clint Eastwood
• Tre Voci, an archival featurette with Leone collaborators Mickey Knox, Sergio Donati and Alberto Grimaldi
• Opening scene with Harry Dean Stanton filmed for the film's US TV debut in 1975, plus an archival interview with the prologue's director Monte Hellman
• Restoration Italian Style, an archival featurette on the film's remastering for DVD
• Location Comparisons 1964-2004, an archival featurette
• Alternate credits sequences
• Three comprehensive image galleries: A Fistful of Pictures, On the Set and Promoting 'A Fistful of Dollars'