Picked this up last week:
And watched it last night. Just reviewing the DVD here, and apologize if it has already been done, didn't see it.
Overall image was really very good (all things considered). It varied a bit from shot to shot but there was nothing that made me unhappy. There was a noticeable amount of film grain available in the transfer, but it read as just that, grain, not a digital type artifact, which I would find much more distracting.
Amusingly, there were several shots with hairs and other obviously organic shapes stuck in the edges of the frame for the length of the shot or several seconds. Made it seem more like being at the movies
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Pleny of detail, though, and little in the way of compression artifacts, which is good news for a movie of this length squeezed onto one disk. Pretty minimal EE also.
Sound was the original track remixed to 5.1. My feeling is it should have been left at stereo. Use of the surrounds was extremely low, and when it was used, was almost distracting. No low end in the track at all. Not a complaint, just FYI. Sound was pretty clean, given the age, and had reasonable dynamics. Dialog was all very intelligible. There is an option to watch it with the original italian track too.
All extras are one the second disk, have not gotten to any as of yet.
Another spiffy plus, there were a few scenes edited out between its italian release and the american premiere that are restored here. They had Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach come in and loop the english dialog too. Lee Van Cleef was understandably not able to perform this task so another person covered his ADR duties.
The scenes themselves were not a big deal, but they a nice little extra. They are incorporated straight into the movie, not a branching option or anything like that.
Like this movie? Buy this set. Box has a bunch printed supplemental material as well, and the feature disk is in the lid, the extras disk in the bottom (box is not a hinge type, but a lid and box like nice greeting cards would come in).
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And watched it last night. Just reviewing the DVD here, and apologize if it has already been done, didn't see it.
Overall image was really very good (all things considered). It varied a bit from shot to shot but there was nothing that made me unhappy. There was a noticeable amount of film grain available in the transfer, but it read as just that, grain, not a digital type artifact, which I would find much more distracting.
Amusingly, there were several shots with hairs and other obviously organic shapes stuck in the edges of the frame for the length of the shot or several seconds. Made it seem more like being at the movies
.Pleny of detail, though, and little in the way of compression artifacts, which is good news for a movie of this length squeezed onto one disk. Pretty minimal EE also.
Sound was the original track remixed to 5.1. My feeling is it should have been left at stereo. Use of the surrounds was extremely low, and when it was used, was almost distracting. No low end in the track at all. Not a complaint, just FYI. Sound was pretty clean, given the age, and had reasonable dynamics. Dialog was all very intelligible. There is an option to watch it with the original italian track too.
All extras are one the second disk, have not gotten to any as of yet.
Another spiffy plus, there were a few scenes edited out between its italian release and the american premiere that are restored here. They had Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach come in and loop the english dialog too. Lee Van Cleef was understandably not able to perform this task so another person covered his ADR duties.
The scenes themselves were not a big deal, but they a nice little extra. They are incorporated straight into the movie, not a branching option or anything like that.
Like this movie? Buy this set. Box has a bunch printed supplemental material as well, and the feature disk is in the lid, the extras disk in the bottom (box is not a hinge type, but a lid and box like nice greeting cards would come in).
BB
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